Places SomePlaceCool Wants to Go

This indoor ski resort has a mountain contained inside a mall.

An Italian restaurant became a rock-and-roll hangout and the lair of the "Hollywood vampires."

A lawless town deep in Death Valley was famous for its riches and death rate turned YouTube famous.

The hundreds of movies and television shows shot in this high desert town are commemorated in a unique museum.

This rock formation named for its unique shape is one of many that call the Alabama Hills home.

An increasingly eccentric apartment building, topped with winged beasties.

An architect's childhood fantasy treehouse made real.

This Yellowstone geyser may not shoot as high as the nearby Old Faithful, but it erupts for considerably longer.

Upside-down trees serve as natural flower pots in this hanging garden of Alaska.

Breathtakingly blue walls shimmer inside the "Glacier Behind the Town."

Get a taste of the Wild West and a glimpse into the gold rush in Goldfield's oldest continually-running business.

This once bustling boomtown hotel is now the hottest spot in Nevada for ghost hunters.

Carved by a waterfall in a hard-to-reach rock formation, this heart-shaped rock has inspired romantics for decades.

This unlicensed collection of fast-food memorabilia sits on the site of the first ever McDonald's restaurant.

You might know it as the Overlook Hotel, but the inside is not going to be familiar.

Oregon's unexpected high desert, displaying layers of time in a colorful show.

This little museum has an exhibit devoted to the elusive forest denizens.

Woven tree art gives this towering Australian woodland a touch of mystical whimsy.

Mysterious meeting place for UFO hunters near Area 51.

This 18-foot-tall steel lotus is a meditation on ecological crisis that originally appeared at Burning Man.

Officially named the "Loneliest Road in America," this barren stretch of Nevada road offers almost nothing but sky and open fields.

Eulogizing an unknown man's unusual demise.

Graffiti, cars, and religion combine to create this jungle of scrap in the Nevada desert.

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.