Places thanson Wants to Go

Inside this striking glass building, visitors can see thousands of dinosaur fossils in the positions that nature deposited them more than 150 million years ago.

A local museum remembers one of the worst acts of anti-Chinese violence in American history.

A mecca of Mexican art and cuisine just over the border.

A T. Rex statue dressed as Mister Rogers honors the children’s-television pioneer.

This abandoned open-pit copper mine features stunning turquoise mineral pools and excellent rock-hunting opportunities.

Grotto replete with mystical designs laid out in glued shell mosaics.

Believed to have once stored either human remains or rice wine, thousands of mysterious stone jars lie in ruin.

This pagoda was once the central feature of a Buddhist temple that no longer exists.

One man's lifetime collection of tiny objects of wisdom gathered from around the world, on display for public enjoyment.

Only a few pieces remain of a grand 16th-century water clock that once announced the changing hours with the sound of bells, gongs, and drums.

Brisbane's manmade urban beach has enough water to fill five Olympic-sized swimming pools.

This Art Deco masterpiece has stood in for some of the most famous buildings in comic book history.

An American city stranded at the tip of a Canadian peninsula where strict adherence to the "49th parallel rule" became problematic.

A narrow fjord-like lake, the third-deepest in the United States, runs for over 50 miles into the Cascades of Washington state.

Once a menacing challenge for trailblazers, this trail is now the most scenic drive in Utah.

This reclusive Hopi village in Arizona has been continuously populated longer than anywhere else in America.

More than 300 years ago, a revolt at this Hopi pueblo shaped the future of the American Southwest.

The remnants of a creative early method of wildfire prevention.

Wedding chapel's mysterious spiral staircase said to be miraculously constructed.

A small flooded ghost town with a few scattered structures remaining.

Giant pinnacles in the sun-scorched lands of Southern Utah have been nicknamed "white ghosts."

Behind this beachfront shop lies a spectacular, colorful sea cave with an equally colorful past.

Stripes of flowers bloom each spring in a 50 acre rainbow of color.

Chewing gum tycoon's memorial lies perched over wife's botanical gardens on Santa Catalina Island.