Places Xtonx Wants to Go

The last physical evidence of the Lewis and Clark trail is one of their autographs etched into this giant rock.

The residents at this Yellowstone wildlife park will certify your cooler as "bear-proof."

This beautiful ancient site is dotted with perforated sandstone pillars considered sacred by some Native American groups.

A rapidly disappearing glacier filled with extinct grasshoppers, perfectly preserved in the ice.

The only road through the heart of Glacier National Park.

Mining town from the late 1890s, once home to Calamity Jane.

This off-the-beaten-path abandoned town is a relic of Montana's silver mining boom.

This angular Dwarven tunnel cuts through a mountainside in Glacier National Park.

The rocks of a certain area of Butte, Montana give off a musical ring when hit.

This amazingly preserved Gold Rush town is a historian's dream.

Archaeological sites and great food inside the island's largest mangrove forest.

Inside this garden, visitors are offered a glimpse into how inhabitants of the region survived centuries ago.

This comprehensive collection features Native American artifacts dating back centuries.

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

The artist James Turrell is repurposing an extinct volcano crater as an observatory to experience the cosmos.

The largest natural travertine bridge in the world is nestled in a small canyon in central Arizona.

The hallowed remains of a 900-year old Ancestral Pueblo great house.

Apparently, the whole cosmos emanates from this plain concrete tower.

From a T-rex to a teapot, a cast of artificial fossils illustrates New Mexico's history.

Hidden in the New Mexico desert southeast of Roswell, nine small deep lakes formed inside sinkholes.

Hidden in the Chihuahuan Desert resides an amazing collection of petroglyphs.

The most powerful laboratory radiation source in the world pulses with 1,000 times the electricity of a lightning bolt.

On the edge of the Valles Caldera National Preserve, these rock formations create an eerie landscape.

A one-of-a-kind sundial at the Very Large Array honors a radio astronomy pioneer, incorporating the original piers from his breakthrough radio telescope.