Places Steve S Wants to Go

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

A stoic rock cairn is all that remains to remember one of the more brutal instances of frontier treachery in American history.

A shady solar power system that couldn't hold up to the harsh desert conditions.

A sculpture for the sun and stars, created by Nancy Holt.

Site of the greatest known waterfall that ever existed.

Massive crater in central Oregon.

A volcanic landmark located on an Ice age lake bed.

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

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

Supposedly Satanic numbers adorn this preserved submarine sail.

Eons old volcanic activity created one of the most stunning rock formations in the United States.

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

When the Austin Dam failed it destroyed much of Austin...and then it failed again.

The first evidence of some of the Earth's earliest life was found in this fossilized undersea grotto.

One car at a time please.

Tour the world's largest deep-hole dimension granite quarry, where you can view the plant where gravestones are made and roll a ball down the outdoor granite bowling alley.

An old abandoned mining town in The Adirondacks where Theodore Roosevelt first learned of the shooting of President William McKinley.

The summit Roosevelt conquered before he descended to become The Chief.

Dedicated to the art and science of glass in equal measure, this space is as much laboratory as museum.

Steepest flood safety railway in the entire world.

An abandoned stretch of highway, deteriorating next to the operational one.

Sail through this subterranean show cave that is home to a legend that would go on to name nearly everything around it.

This eerily well-preserved coal town was saved from destruction by a Sean Connery movie.

This lush forest valley was once mined for lumber to the extent that it was once nicknamed "The Pennsylvania Desert."