Places Velvis Wants to Go

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

Life-sized sculpture of a blue whale made of hand-recycled plastic trash.

An ancient cave system in Tennessee’s Appalachian foothills converted to a 1,200-person music venue.

A volcanic tunnel illuminated by natural skylights offers a shaded respite from the desert sun.

The cluster of boulders near Fort Irwin is covered in military insignia.

A hand-built folk art installation covered with messages of God's love.

Carved by a waterfall in a hard-to-reach rock formation, this heart-shaped rock has inspired romantics for decades.

Explore 10 acres of environmental sculptures.

The marker offers a rare chance to be in four U.S. states at once, though there's some controversy over its geographic accuracy.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

At certain times in the fall and winter, the sunlight makes this natural sandstone arch glow.

This secluded aqua waterfall in the Grand Canyon is the perfect swimming hole, and the Havasupai tribe's fiercely protected natural wonder.

The world's largest rose bush has literally outgrown the pioneer museum it was planted behind.

One of the largest, oldest, darkest, quietest motel rooms in the world.

In a 345-million-year-old cave that's 200 feet underground, dinner awaits.

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

The stone circle honors the 19 firemen who perished during the Yarnell Hill Fire.

Open since 1938, this diner has kept its fountain, malt machine, and all the gum that greasers left beneath its counter.

A waterfall 600 ft. inside a mountain, once the bane of gold miners, is now a spectacle of nature.

The oldest certified bowling alley in the United States is in the basement of this century-old bar.

A unique botanical garden housed in three giant geodesic domes.

Statue dedicated to the star of an old television show.

The longest continuously operating Elk's Lodge in the country.