Places venicedoll Wants to Go

This massive statue of John Muir on the side of a California highway was carved from a redwood tree.

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

The second-largest giant sequoia in the world.

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

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

These millipedes glow not out of attraction, but as a not-too-subtle warning.

This giant spider sculpture made from the iconic car is one giant visual pun.

Columbus' failed colony in the New World.

Collection of fossils, plants, and ancient animals encased in amber.

An eccentric German artist built this weird and wondrous castle packed with shocking sculptures and alien art.

This museum dedicated to the history of the medical bone trade and human osteology.

A mountain range on an active U.S. Navy base hides thousands of mysterious prehistoric rock carvings.

This unique graffiti art from the 1940s has become a staple of this local landscape in the remote California desert.

This impressive tunnel was dug entirely by hand over the course of 36 years.

Hidden inside this Arizona fast food franchise is an in-depth exhibit on the famed WWII counterintelligence program.

This rusted car found in Petrified Forest National Park's Route 66 exhibit may be the most photographed abandoned car in the country.

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

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

It's safe—and permitted—to walk across these twin natural sandstone arches.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

A Mars simulation in the southern Utah desert.

At this gas station in the middle of the desert, a convenience store has been carved directly into the rock.

This Moab institution functions as both a rock store and a small natural history museum.

A ghost town that held steady longer than most, but finally gave up the ghost.