Places m0118 Wants to Go

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

Sandstone rock formations that look like they belong on the cover of a progressive rock album.

The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.

Dig for your own trilobites in this goldmine of invertebrates.

One of the world's oldest and most massive living organisms is a grove of quaking aspens.

A mistaken marker makes an erroneous claim along the historic Old Divide Road.

After a short-lived attempt to bring America in line with the rest of the world, this road was left in metric.

A cabinet of curious mathematical models and old calculators.

Ancestral Puebloan ruins, natural arches, and box canyons abound in this seldom-visited corner of Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park.

The biggest solar telescope in the world helps reveal the secrets of our sun.

The world's largest military aircraft cemetery.

America's only nuclear missile silo open to the public.

Officially named the "Loneliest Road in America," this barren stretch of Nevada road offers almost nothing but sky and open fields.

A gothic palace of endless stalagmites and pseudoscorpions waits within one of the world's most beautiful caves.

Water of undetermined depth has attracted rare fish and cult leaders alike.

James Turrell's total color immersion art installation, hidden on the top floor of a luxury handbag shop.

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.

Stepping away from the glitz of mobsters and casinos to learn about the other history of Vegas.

This Taoist temple is the oldest continuously used Chinese temple in California.

One of the largest fleets of armored vehicles in the world, sitting out in the California desert.

Shoot for par over the bodies of the dead on this cemetery-cum-golf course.

The California capital city once stood 10 feet lower than it does today.

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.