Places m0118 Wants to Go

A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

When zealous marijuana enthusiasts kept stealing the "Mile 420" highway marker, the State of Colorado got creative.

One of the largest Buddhist stupas in North America is built of concrete designed to last 1,000 years.

Possibly the world's only drive-in movie theater with an attached motel.

Paranormal experiences in this hotel's room 217 led Stephen King to write "The Shining."

When ecosystems collide in the arid Southwest.

The Denver airport is guarded by a 32-foot-tall sculpture of a demonic horse.

A downtown park built on top of unclaimed graves.

Wondrous sandstone hoodoos where Native Americans collected clay for pottery, 9,000 years ago.

The ghost town left by the worst nuclear disaster of all time is being taken over by nature and urban explorers.

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

A beautiful, dense forest in the shadow of Mount Fuji, with a tragic reputation.

This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

The site of the deadly Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.

This monument to a veteran of the Mexican-American War is one of only two in Manhattan that serve as an actual mausoleum.

A Manhattan courthouse hides a small but scathing memorial to Holocaust injustice.

La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's "Dream House" will immerse you in an ever changing world of sound and light.

Hidden in plain sight on a pair of Manhattan subway tunnels are a pair of public instruments that sing to each other.

Half of a waterfall goes into the river while the other half seems to disappear.

World's largest precision optical instrument used to detect Einstein's elusive gravity waves.

Imagine playing a version of Legends of the Hidden Temple, but with a distinctly Southern Gothic flare.