Places slapphappe Wants to Go

South Carolina's last remaining slavery auction house is now a museum devoted to its own tragic history.

A mailbox that saved a nature reserve.

Despite his legacy of work in Spain, Cuba, and Florida, the larger-than-life writer's grave is a simple affair tucked in an Idaho cemetery.

Home to the deepest rift anywhere on Earth.

The world's first nuclear power plant is open to visitors looking to role-play a meltdown.

A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.

One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.

The largest hot spring in the United States is, as the name suggests, a stunning show of natural color.

A 1940s nuclear reactor built to produce plutonium for the Manhattan Project.

This massive mushroom has spent centuries eating its way across a huge swath of Oregon.

The unique circular corral belonging to the “Cattle King” of Oregon.

At the base of Steens Mountain resides an otherworldly desert.

The victims of a free-floating Japanese bombing during WWII are remembered by this stone monument.

A volcanic fissure over two miles long and up to 70 feet deep.

A volcanic landmark located on an Ice age lake bed.

Formerly secret, precariously perched boulders.

The trunks of 3,000 year-old trees lurk beneath the surface of this crystal clear lake in Oregon.

The park preserves a single, rare species of carnivorous plant that spells doom for unsuspecting insects.

On the Oregon coast is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

This unassuming cheese empire in rural Oregon churns out more than 150,000 pounds of cheese each day.

A massive sea stack famous for its appearance in The Goonies.

A delightfully quirky blend of oddities spread throughout an old 1920s bank.

The lush coastal city of Astoria is riddled with forgotten secret sidewalks.

A Roman-style column in Oregon hides a spiral staircase inside.