Places WanderlustNomad Wants to Go

This underground oasis is one of North America’s most fascinating prehistoric places—and you can scuba dive in it.

This Old West hotel, the longest in continuous operation in the state of Arizona, is claimed to be haunted.

This church on a Tohono O'Odham reservation has stood since 1797.

This once-booming Gold Rush town is now home to a herd of feral donkeys.

This bomb shelter-themed bar has barely changed since it opened.

A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.

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

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

Witnessing the might of this dessert-colored desert waterfall is a rare, powerful treat.

Eons ago, a rushing lava river formed this pristine passage through solid rock.

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

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

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

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

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

A journey begins with a single step, and for many, the road-trip of a lifetime started at this Chicago intersection.

This art gallery and oddities boutique bewitches visitors with a trove of occult trinkets and eccentric antiques, work by an ever-changing roster of underground artists, and classes in tarot and other mystic arts.

This tiny historic jail along Route 66 is the perfect fit for exactly one criminal and their partner-in-crime.

The hometown of Popeye's creator is littered with a growing collection of granite cartoon characters.

A historic and oft-filmed prison stands in a Chicago suburb.

The legacy of an unsolved, gruesome murder rests beneath the spans of this historic bridge.

This sprawling mini-golf empire is an impressive testament to a disappearing attraction.

This elaborate Hindu temple is located in a Chicago suburb, but looks like it was transported directly from India.

River pirates, murderous bandits, and serial killers used this Illinois cave as their debauched hideout.