Places A Bear Wants to Go

This bright yellow relic is the final survivor of a short burst of seashell-shaped petrol pumps.

It’s not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music’s library has been described as a “cathedral of books.”

This research center for rare prosimians is studying how they sleep to help prolong human life.

Frank Lloyd Wright’s most iconic home dangles over a Pennsylvania waterfall.

This dramatic rail curve was once the target of a failed Nazi attack.

The remains of the iconic train crash from the movie 'The Fugitive' can still be found rusting along the Great Smoky Railroad.

Sail through this subterranean show cave that is home to a legend that would go on to name nearly everything around it.

The home and studio of a visionary woodworker now stands as a museum and example of his artistic genius.

This ceremonial mound is one of the first officially recognized Native American historical sites in North Carolina.

This evocative New Jersey statue memoralizes the Polish victims of a Soviet massacre.

Garden dedicated to native carnivorous plants and site of huge flytrap heist.

America's second-oldest brick baseball stadium was home to a legendary WWII series that only sailors got to see.

This Pennsylvania cave holds evidence of the oldest known inhabitants of North America.

The site of America's first commercial oil well essentially disappeared after the town went bust.

The only remaining piece of hull of the most decorated US ship of WWII is this giant name plate.

This abandoned Poconos resort is haunted by a history of kitschy romance and a violent fugitive.

This huge, disused viaduct is now a crumbling concrete underworld of covered in years of graffiti.

Take a steam-powered ride straight out of the past on this Appalachian rail line.

The hotel room where Janis Joplin tragically died has now become a makeshift shrine to the singer.

One day a year it is legal to jump off of this astoundingly tall bridge that spans an Appalachian gorge.

Rising out of a clearing in New Jersey's Pine Barrens is an Aztec-inspired monument to the "Lindbergh of Mexico."

From failed port town to Civil War fort, the ruins of this former defense saw their finest day in the television age.

This university transit system is a 1970s vision of the future.

An eerily abandoned stone tower is all that remains of a demolished dam on Cape Fear River.