Places summisummi99 Wants to Go

A 24-hour vending machine restocked daily with homemade full-sized pecan pies.

A popular swimming hole that hides one of America's most deadly diving spots.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.

The remnants of the base where US Army troops learned how to fight in extreme conditions.

Silver in the hills led to the speedy creation of this boom town and a lack of it saw the town abandoned nearly as quickly.

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

Wall to wall taxidermy at Denver's oldest and most exotic steakhouse.

Mysterious meeting place for UFO hunters near Area 51.

The largest self-built castle in the U.S., six decades in the making.

Seller of surplus nuclear research materials.

A frozen oasis lies beneath the scorching New Mexico desert.

Thousands of pieces of art have been carved into the rock at the site of an ancient volcanic eruption.

On the edge of the Valles Caldera National Preserve, these rock formations create an eerie landscape.

A half-acre utopia in the New Mexico desert features a graveyard, a game of horseshoes, a library, and a mailbox.

Its history includes dinosaur fossils, cattle rustlers, Georgia O'Keeffe, and a mythical giant rattlesnake named Vivaron.

A preserve with 75,000 ancient drawings remains the realm of public – not just scientific – exploration.

On the side of a remote mountain, a stone face bearing an inscription of mysterious origin.

This quirky hot springs town known to locals as "T or C" was named after a radio show.

One of the American Southwest's most extensive collections of Navajo rock art.

"I did this all while you were watching TV."

Life-sized sculpture of a blue whale made of hand-recycled plastic trash.

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

Giant origami sculptures tucked into desert scenery beckon passers-by to explore further.