Places Sterling925 Wants to Go

The illuminated falls are a gem in North Cascades National Park.

Ancient pueblos built into the base of a natural canyon wall.

These ruins of a pre-Columbian cliff village are among the most beautiful and well preserved in New Mexico.

The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.

A gothic palace of endless stalagmites and pseudoscorpions waits within one of the world's most beautiful caves.

The ancient dwellings of the Puebloans, located in the cliffs of majestic mesas.

The fifth-longest natural arch in the world, and the longest outside China.

Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.

A surreal landscape where fanged rocks rise from the ground and the ocean feels like a great mystery.

This frequently-photographed waterfall takes only a short hike to visit.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

This semi-secret garden in south Seattle emulates a traditional Japanese garden using the plants of the Pacific Northwest.

Gold, silver, copper, lead, and zinc were once extracted at this abandoned mine near Lookout Mountain.

A heavenly experience, right here on Terra Firma.

This Elizabethan hedge maze is one of only six in North America.

A little piece of the Shire is hidden behind a plant nursery in Port Orchard, Washington.

A subterranean world of tunnels links several buildings of this rare 19th-century asylum.

The rusted remains of an ill-fated freighter lie just off the coast of South Manitou Island in Lake Michigan.

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

This large Sitka spruce that appears to be floating in mid-air, has defied logic for years.

Hollowed out cedar log tubs set in an ancient towering forest.

Rustic natural hot springs in the deciduous rain forest.

These Great Lakes sea caves accessible by boat in the summer turn into temples of ice reachable by foot in the winter.

America's silhouette includes 100 square miles of wilderness jutting into Canada thanks to an old mapmaking error.