Places AlexOnAdventure Wants to Go

A much more welcome kind of snowbird vacationer, manatees camp out in these springs every winter.

This historical swimming pool near Miami is emptied and refilled each day with naturally filtered water.

Eons ago, a rushing lava river formed this pristine passage through solid rock.

Stroll through a wonderland of stupendous moss-covered trees.

Who needs fancy modern water slides when this giant North Carolina rock works just as well?

Once an ambitious nature spa, these forest ruins now provide a serene monument to failure.

When this test site was abandoned, they didn't even bother to take the rocket with them.

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

This secluded aqua waterfall in the Grand Canyon is the perfect swimming hole, and the Havasupai tribe's fiercely protected natural wonder.

This abandoned island off the Venetian coast has been a radical monastery, a political prison, and a secret Nazi base.

This ghostly Alaska village still clings to a steep cliffside despite having been abandoned for over 50 years.

These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world’s largest coastal brick fortresses.

An abandoned settlement originally established by British colonialists in the Andaman archipelago.

Disney's abandoned animal island is now an overgrown ruin that was almost the coolest attraction ever.

This foolish Victorian sea fort was converted to a deluxe hotel.

A small island less than half a mile from Venice is a forbidden island with a dark and twisted past.

Remains of an abandoned coral city.

The final resting place of two (or three) presidents, one vampire, and 18,000 Confederate soldiers.

Mystic Incan rock piles three miles above sea level.

Ancient Peruvian fertility temple or modern money-making hoax? Either way these monoliths still look like penises.

This small oxbow lake has rare giant river otters and some Seussian-sounding birds.

Pre-Incan aqueduct amidst a stone forest in Peru.

The shockingly unspoiled Peruvian tomb of the Lord of Sipan was once guarded by a footless warrior.

After an epic flood washed away its enslavers, this city has been part ghost town, part cultural wildcard for the past three centuries.