Places Woogs Wants to Go

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

The rocks in this arid basin leave trails of movement behind them.

A small research station sits at the summit of this mountain, which is one of the few U.S. peaks higher than 14,000 feet outside of the Sierra Nevada.

Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.

This Native American settlement dates back to the Pueblo II period.

Hike up to this ancestral grain storage site, but don't touch.

At the most northwestern point of the contiguous United States lies a trail leading through an ancient forest to stunning cliff-side vistas and massive oceanside caves.

A museum displaying an impressive collection of pre-contact Makah artifacts.

This rare, carefully curated collection showcases the history of neon inside a grandiose Elks lodge.

A French chateau, failed utopian community, odd museum, and Stonehenge replica in rural Washington State.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

One of the world's smallest city parks is only 12 by 20 feet.

An institution that preserves the history of institutionalization.

Many generations of travelers have passed through the steep, smooth walls of this canyon.

A large wave-cut shelter, a major archeological site, overlooks the dry basin of Winnemucca Lake.

Multiple waterfalls and several historic CCC buildings anchor this state park in Oregon's Willamette Valley.

These wave-cut overhangs on ancient Lake Chewaucan contain some of the oldest evidence of human habitation in North America.

While it is not equipped to peer into outer space this observatory looks like it was built on the moon.

Formerly secret, precariously perched boulders.

The world's last remaining store of its kind.

This dry lake bed contains the oldest known petroglyphs in North America.