Places aleritchie Wants to Go

A 24-hour vending machine restocked daily with homemade full-sized pecan pies.

An abandoned stretch of highway, deteriorating next to the operational one.

The haunting "Hell House Altar" is one of the few remnants of an abandoned college that has been a magnet for local legends.

The Corinthian columns that towered over Abraham Lincoln’s inauguration stand proud.

This claimant to the title of "smallest church in the 48 states" doubles as an equally tiny, quasi-post office.

A prehistoric landscape hidden in the cliffs of Maha'ulepu.

The world's largest fully steerable radio telescope.

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

A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.

Hikers can still stroll beneath the long conveyer of this abandoned mining facility hidden in a West Virginia river gorge.

Railroad came. People came. Railroad left. Town died.

This bridge is haunted by the ghost of a distraught mother.

Enormous lake at the bottom of a unique cave system.

Once one of the largest producers of pig iron in the world.

The beauty of urban decay, hiding some dark secrets.

The remains of one of America's first radiation testing grounds still rest ominously in a Georgia forest.