Places The Donut Guy Wants to Go

A cooled lava flow from the Haleakalā volcano formed these surreal-looking columnar basalt structures.

This unique formation appears as though an asteroid landed on the forest.

The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.

An alien landscape of chalk-rock in the Egyptian desert.

A faux desert landscape in the middle of the jungle that sprouts oases during the rainy season.

Mother Nature outdoes herself with this stunningly beautiful set of caves carved into marble.

Rusty pieces of metal jutting out of a breakwater are all that's visible of the 12,500-ton ocean liner that capsized just off the beach.

French prisoners carved these boats from the bones of their meat rations.

Julia Morgan's Moorish-Gothic labyrinth of fountains, trees, natural light and Oakland's notable dead.

Odd stone and concrete monuments in the "Poet of the Sierras" eclectic folly garden.

It was once used as a classroom to teach mining skills to local high school students.

This Spokane mansion and the stories within its walls have been brought back to life, thanks to careful restoration.

This family-owned restaurant celebrates Native American cuisine.

A giant milk bottle from the 1930s beckons drivers to this diner.

This playground sculpture of an icon from the past is dedicated to the children of the future.

This inanimate goat created by the "welding nun" has been helping to clean up the city of Spokane for more than 40 years.

The decorations were inspired by an unlikely missing treasure.

A wild west land agreement was etched right onto this historic Idaho stone.

A black cottonwood gets a second life as a home for books.

Protected from the elements, these Native American rock paintings have survived approximately 250 years.

Cross the Continental Divide through an old railroad tunnel, and ride back to the top on a shuttle.

A mining town, now abandoned, was built in a canyon so narrow that the railroad ran right through the hotel lobby.

This oddity shop contains everything from antique tools to a human skeleton.

The mayor made the declaration in 2004.