Places TheColorDana Wants to Go

This former lieutenant governor's home is brimming with curiosities.

An abandoned cyanide mill is now a haunting magnet for graffiti and illegal parties.

A facility built in 1992 for an underground nuclear test remains in place today.

Narrow slot canyons in a badland eroded into soft sedimentary rock provide an otherworldly landscape in this remote Nevada state park.

See Hoover Dam and the bypass bridge from a perspective usually off-limits to the public, and float the upper part of the Black Canyon National Water Trail.

This sign designates the road that leads to the infamous Area 51.

A hidden slot canyon in the southern Nevada desert makes an unexpected oasis and scenic hike.

Back in the day everyone who was anyone played this historic western theater.

This railroad magnate's 19th century tower is more than a little bit out of place in the Nevada desert.

The contents of this safe survived a 37-kiloton nuclear bomb.

This former Mormon settlement is reemerging from the receding waters of Lake Mead.

In the middle of a remote desert town is a surprisingly opulent hotel.

Twelve plaster figures inspired by da Vinci's famed painting haunt the desert landscape above a real-life ghost town.

Eastern zen meets Western grit in these four little trees growing out of a rock on Lake Tahoe’s Nevada shore.

A sun-filled museum featuring an ever-rotating collection of classic and exotic cars.

A diorama lover's dream world.

This large artificial waterfall in Washington state was merely an incidental byproduct of a technological megaproject.

An early 20th-century fruit warehouse home of an artistic and cultural renaissance in northeastern Washington.

The former home of the "Mother of Father's Day."

A giant sculpture dedicated to a staple of South Bend food culture.

A giant roadside black bird marks the location of this eclectic local mall.

Sleep beneath the big screen at this old-school movie theater.

Overlooking Puget Sound sits a garden with a Buddhist prayer wheel and an elaborate labyrinth.

A frozen relic of Seattle's hydroelectric boom is now a teaching facility for future engineers.