Places atozenith Wants to Go

The remains of a community that was forced to move for a dam that never materialized still rot in this Pennsylvania park.

Once home to seven different roller coasters, Glen Echo has undergone many transformations since its founding in 1891.

A surreal, interdimensional shopping center and portal to another universe by Meow Wolf.

For more than 75 years, this living piece of history has been serving exceptional soul food.

A museum dedicated to linguistics, from how babies learn to talk to endangered and extinct languages.

You can find America's highest suspension footbridge at Grandfather Mountain in North Carolina.

A ghost town that was wiped out by a flood in 1940.

The highest point in North Carolina and the United States east of the Mississippi River, Mount Mitchell is named after argumentative explorer Elisha Mitchell.

Marvel at 400-year-old trees in one of the last remaining old-growth Appalachian forests.

Mile-long cave system near Great Smoky Mountains.

The scant remains of this flooded historic village can be explored in one of the most remote areas of the Great Smokies.

Wild lights and sound effects turn a walk through some caves into an eye-popping 1960s tourist attraction.

This high point in the Great Smoky Mountains is said to be home to the chief of all bears.

Erosion has transformed this sandstone boulder into a massive dune-filled cavern.

Tucked away in the forest, these giant wooden trolls delight visitors in Charlestown, Rhode Island.

250-year-old farm now features sculptures, a petting zoo and a hippy-bazaar.

This bookstore for weird fiction doubles as Providence’s de facto center for information about H.P. Lovecraft.

A virtually untouched "home on the hill" for the flora and fauna of Rhode Island.

The largest living museum in the Northeast recreates life from the Early Republic period complete with costumed historians and reenactors.

The ruins of a Massachusetts prison farm can still be found crumbling the woods of a state park.

Locals purchased this abandoned quarry in order to make sure it continues to be overgrown.

You can get anything you want at the former site of the restaurant immortalized by Arlo Guthrie.

The largest collection of historic military firearms in the United States.

The attic and basement house two museums stuffed with oddities like swallowed spoon handles and a shrunken head.