Places Ancientproof Wants to Go

Opinions differ as to whether this Arizona tree was actually used as a Wild West jail, but that hasn't stopped the town from capitalizing on it.

The remote outlaw hideout of Jesse James, Butch Cassidy, and the Sundance Kid.

The ravine where Jesse James supposedly performed an impossible jump to evade capture.

Local lore holds that Butch Cassidy took an escape route through Red Canyon's sandstone hoodoos after an attempted murder.

A Wild West jailhouse that slid down the mountainside.

A prison-like structure guards the remains of a notorious Old West outlaw.

The remote resting place of a notorious Wild West outlaw whose death is shrouded in mystery.

A vast city of the dead, where the deceased outnumber the living by more than a million.

The most beautiful Taco Bell in the world even has surfboard parking.

A beautiful, dense forest in the shadow of Mount Fuji, with a tragic reputation.

The final resting place of the world's first nuclear reactor.

Science fiction's grandfather has a fittingly marvelous tomb.

Tubing through a cave lit with glowworms is a magical underground experience.

Keshwa chaca, among the last handwoven Incan bridges, crosses Apurimac Canyon in Peru.

On the Oregon coast is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

An unfinished tomb carved into a giant boulder in the Arabian Desert.

The self-mummified monks of Japan.

A salty cave excavated by elephants and the location of a deadly disease vector.

A collection of haunted artifacts chronicles the career of the world’s most famous paranormal investigators. Museum is temporarily closed with plans to re-open.

A fiery crater has been burning in the Karakum Desert since 1971.

Graffiti covers the walls of a room where university students through the centuries have waited nervously to defend their theses.

It took over 100 years to decode this enigmatic epitaph for two buried brides.

Tirelessly maintained by a Wisconsin man named JFK.

This ancient village and its adjoining cemetery have a beautiful history of death and remembrance.