Places slgwv Wants to Go

An eclectic collection of artifacts from the Wild West is preserved in a remote fictional pioneer town.

Where a guard killed nine German prisoners during one of the worst 20th-century POW camp massacres in U.S. history.

A small canyon with petroglyphs and a seasonal waterfall, only a short hike from the remnants of old Route 66.

The remains of this hell for leather wild west town can still be found in the Arizona desert.

The remains of a boarding school designed to forcibly assimilate Native American children.

Don't blink or you'll miss it.

A memorial to the firefighters who died in an industrial disaster is housed in a small public park.

This 80.33 troy ounces of solid gold is believed to be the largest nugget from Oregon still in its original form.

Native Americans built this circle of stones, which was used to predict astronomical events.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

This razorback ridgeline has doubled as a scenic drive since the early 1900s.

Steep canyon walls hide a forested oasis in the West Texas desert.

The highest point in Texas is capped by a big silver pyramid.

These cinderblock farmhouses were actually World War II radar stations in disguise.

These black pillars of volcanic basalt seem to call mountain climbers with an unbreakable siren song.

Secret Manor, a house full of legends, the least of which is the haunting of long-deceased ladies of pleasure.

Hundreds of hopeful gold miners came here to get rich, but only two years later the small town was deserted.

Home of the International Space Hall of Fame.

Twenty-seven massive radio antennas on the high plains of New Mexico search for life on other planets.

The official atomic museum of the United States explores the explosive and productive history of a much maligned energy source.

A small metropolis of Pueblo cave dwellings have been carved right into the hillside of this national monument.

Twice a year, visitors can tour the desolate site that birthed the Atomic Age.

An 1870s ranch for pioneers, rodeo stars, and divorcees was abandoned and left for dead, until the city reopened it for exploration.

The world's second largest single-dish radio telescope, once used to contact E.T.