Places Willymjr Wants to Go

Bad farming practices caused this unnatural natural wonder.

One of the world’s largest and deepest freshwater springs, where mastodons once roamed.

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

Moonbows over Kentucky.

Legend has it the mill owner's daughter, Mary Musgrove, helped a Patriot soldier hide behind these falls.

A historic blockhouse and trading post give a glimpse into the early colonial history of South Carolina.

This Florida sinkhole hides a rainforest-like micro-environment in its depths.

The beauty and the beast of hydraulic mining is on full display at this California Historic State Park.

An exercise in patience and imagination, where Mother Earth turned common stuff into precious hidden treasures.

This scenic Maryland park was the site of one of the worst prison camps of the Civil War.

The only diamond mine in the world where you can keep what you find.

Surprisingly aquamarine waters fill deep lakes formed at the end of the last ice age.

One of the best places to see wild Colonial Spanish Mustangs in the United States.

The eerie ruins of a remote abandoned hamlet said to be founded by the survivors of a shipwreck.

Eight feet in diameter and more than 24 feet around.

This church carved into the rocks is full of enchanting stone statues.

A mud brick kasbah with a history of lavishness and traitorship.

The pit stop from "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" now serves beef and pork barbecue, not people.

The set location for a 1987 cult classic draws international film buffs to the middle of the Mojave Desert.

An abandoned horror film set sits eerily along a highway through Hollywood's "door to the desert."

A massive display of meteorites all found in the Atacama Desert.

This large pile of traveler-curated rocks by the dry lakebed is a longstanding tradition on the Old Mojave Road.

Deep in the Negev Desert, the world's tallest solar tower looks like a sight straight out of science fiction.

The site of an underground detonation of a megaton nuclear bomb in the middle of the Mojave Desert.