Places StepYoshi Wants to Go

This pebble beach is so beautiful that taking its rocks is against the law.

While most wind tunnels test scale models, the "Cave of Winds" was large enough for actual airplanes.

The site of the climactic scene from the classic horror film is now a historic landmark.

Home to the world's largest refracting telescope and the birthplace of modern astrophysics.

A world-class observatory in the California desert.

A sliver of nostalgia in Seattle's Viretta Park.

Legend says that these tall basalt pillars are the petrified wives of a trickster god.

Site of the greatest known waterfall that ever existed.

The strange phenomenon causing gravity to "work backwards" on this hill has been blamed on the paranormal.

A fine, large-aperture telescope available for public use.

The final resting place of one of the most sensational guitar players of all time was created only after his father got the rights to his music.

Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents sit, crumbling in a field in Virginia.

A secretive collection featuring objects that were designed specifically for U.S. intelligence operations.

A 300-yard long natural tunnel runs through a ridge deep in the Appalachian Mountains.

A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.

The marker offers a rare chance to be in four U.S. states at once, though there's some controversy over its geographic accuracy.

A replica that won't float away.

An earthwork sculpture built by Robert Smithson in the Great Salt Lake only reemerges during drought.

Sandstone rock formations that look like they belong on the cover of a progressive rock album.

This geothermal hot spring hides beneath a slowly growing mineral dome.

Bizarre lunar-like landscape with thousands of large stone "hoodoos."

Here, at the “world’s longest art gallery,” you’ll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.

One of the world's oldest and most massive living organisms is a grove of quaking aspens.

Some islands... they come, they go, especially on Lake Travis.