Places txarmyof1 Wants to Go

On the shores of Lake Superior, a small group of monks makes sacred sweets.

Amid rushing rapids, this small bit of land is an important First Nations site on border between Canada and the United States.

A Rocky Mountain city provides a happy ending for a pinto pony and his Brobdingnagian red chair.

A Texas cave network is home to some of the world's most spectacular-looking and bizarrely named mineral formations.

An immense cave that has served as an outlaw's treasure trove, an underground dance hall, a nuclear fallout shelter, and much more.

Civil War dumping ground for the bodies of terrorized Union sympathizers.

This beautiful grotto is one of those places where you can't believe you're just outside Austin.

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

A train tunnel that was made obsolete by the dam it helped create.

Bizarre lunar-like landscape with thousands of large stone "hoodoos."

This outsider art paradise is filled with dinosaur sculptures crafted from recycled machinery.

A striking, menacing sandstone peak towering above a landscape that's equal parts Mordor and the Moon.

This raised bulls-eye visible from space was the subject of an intense geologic controversy.

A crack flared at the base provides a pathway completely through a sandstone ridge near Moab.

A small oasis not far from downtown Moab.

A self-built castle made by a mysterious man.

Take a monster truck tour around an ostrich farm in the middle of the desert.

An improbable waterfall springs from an orange-white cliff face, tumbling into the headwaters of the Virgin River above Zion National Park.

Only ruined buildings and abandoned charcoal kilns remain of this once bustling Wild West boom town.

Few things look more out of place than the electric blue ponds in the reddish-brown desert of Utah.

One of the world’s largest collections of petroglyphs records 2,000 years of human activity.

A hidden garden of stones engraved with scriptures, a Joseph Smith Sphinx, all carved by one man.

Hundreds of drawings left by the land's previous inhabitants remain mysterious.

Here lies Lilly E. Gray, an alleged "victim of the beast," but the reason long remained a mystery.