Places ysaadams Wants to Go

Papier-mâché folk art recognizing horrors of slave trade.

A ghostly cabin attempts to reverse the erasure of enslaved people through poetry.

This family-owned restaurant celebrates Native American cuisine.

An unusual assortment of art, furniture, and other curiosities.

A nature and cultural preserve named for its multitude of petroglyphs carved by the Northern Sinagua people.

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

Witnessing the might of this dessert-colored desert waterfall is a rare, powerful treat.

More than 300 years ago, a revolt at this Hopi pueblo shaped the future of the American Southwest.

A working cattle ranch with remarkably well-preserved prehistoric petroglyphs and ancient ruins.

Giant origami sculptures tucked into desert scenery beckon passers-by to explore further.

Despite time, colonization, and the brutal New Mexican heat, these Pueblo ruins still stand.

A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the “Golden Age” of the American automobile.

The Grand Canyon of Texas.

Instead of faces, these sculptures have barcodes—statements on societal dehumanization.

This small town in the Netherlands has no roads but instead, miles of canals and over 100 bridges.

Inside a former cabaret, seven floors of erotic art.

Visitors can walk over the largest concentration of Columbian mammoths to have died from one event.

This former Texas landfill is flush with 300 million-year-old fossils, all fit for the taking.

This Nevada lake holds its titular natural pyramid and, if the legends are true, a number of dangerous spirits.

The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.

The hundreds of movies and television shows shot in this high desert town are commemorated in a unique museum.

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

The ruins of this abandoned fort now stand as a picturesque reminder of America's march West.

This volcano rises like a giant anthill from the plains below, with a road spiraling up to the rim.