A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

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

Mine your own precious stones.

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

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

These banned cigarette vending machines now sell little pieces of pocket-sized art.

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.

A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.

A spiritual vortex among the red rocks in Sedona.

Despite sitting firmly in the global cradle of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, this Hare Krishna temple is host to one of the largest color festivals outside India.

Once a menacing challenge for trailblazers, this trail is now the most scenic drive in Utah.

Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.

Dig for your own trilobites in this goldmine of invertebrates.

Mountain known by the Tillamook Tribe as "the place of the supreme deity."

Artistic Oasis in Industrial Ballard.

A chance to sleep among the firs and pines of the Oregon forest.

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

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

The spur that wouldn’t die.

The building features one of the last remaining free-floating spiral grand staircases in the U.S.

Allowing humans and fish alike to migrate from freshwater to saltwater and back again.