Places toothbat Wants to Go

It stands tall, honoring the town’s nickname of Ballad Town USA, while paying tribute to the city’s rich history of barbershop quartet singing.

Reachable only by foot, the ruins of the 1800s pump house and dam that supplied water to Durham, North Carolina, until 1927 sit by the scenic Eno River.

Travelers leave tea kettles in a remote part of Death Valley as part of a mysterious, decades-old tradition.

After the nearby mercury mine shut down, this town was abandoned and declared a Superfund site.

This former mining hub holds a surprising abundance of undisturbed relics from the Old West.

A hard-to-reach oasis in a desolate corner of Death Valley National Park.

This rock formation named for its unique shape is one of many that call the Alabama Hills home.

Smooth basaltic rocks tell a tale of ancient glacial waterfalls.

A charming easy-to-miss sculpture garden filled with whimsical and thought-provoking metal sculptures.

A glimpse into the lives of the the Miwok and Paiute people in Yosemite National Park.

The geographic center point of the Golden State.

A water tower shaped like a giant coffee pot looms over a small Swedish village in Central California.

This small shack near the entrance to Sequoia National Park has been in almost continuous operation for the last century.

A 19th-century cabin built into a hollowed-out Sequoia tree.

Four hundred granite steps were built into this massive rock by the National Park Service.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

The second-largest giant sequoia in the world.

This hidden fire lookout offers spectacular views of Sequoia National Park.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

Here, visitors can swing with the waves of the Pacific Ocean.

Another of California's unused Cold War missile defense complexes has become a graffiti gallery.

Overflowing with shipping containers, this location has been transformed into a massive workspace for artists.

A public art installation featuring clawfoot bathtubs on stilts sparks admiration and controversy from locals.

Across Ring Mountain is a vast collection of Native American petroglyphs unique to the region.