Butte, Montana
The Berkeley Pit
New fungal and bacterial species call this deadly lake home.
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Butte, Montana
New fungal and bacterial species call this deadly lake home.
Berkeley Heights, New Jersey
This tiny New Jersey village has lived many lives but seems determined to remain a ghost town.
Los Alamos, New Mexico
A small metropolis of Pueblo cave dwellings have been carved right into the hillside of this national monument.
Corbett, Oregon
This extravagant Art Nouveau rest stop features a million-dollar view of the Columbia River.
Liberty, New York
This once luxurious Catskills resort is now a haunting ruin.
Natural Bridge, Virginia
An alternate history park where the Union Army loses the war... to dinosaurs.
Seattle, Washington
This historic building provides a powerful glimpse into the lives of Japanese Americans forced to relocate during World War II.
New York, New York
The New York hotel where tragic visionary Nikola Tesla spent his final hours, destitute and alone but for the pigeons.
Richmond, Virginia
Heron, whitewater rapids, and urban industrialism all add to the beauty of this concrete nature walk.
Homosassa, Florida
In Florida, these naughty monkeys live on their own mini-monkey Alcatraz.
Blythe, California
Ancient human, animal, and geometric figures drawn in the earth.
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago's North Park Village was once the largest municipal sanatorium in the country.
Columbia, Missouri
Curious cave that stays a cool 56 degrees all year long.
Hana, Hawaii
A tunnel of hardened lava along Maui’s famous Road to Hana.
Seattle, Washington
This Seattle joint serves food inside an old train car once used by FDR.
Aspen, Colorado
Silver in the hills led to the speedy creation of this boom town and a lack of it saw the town abandoned nearly as quickly.
San Francisco, California
A library and museum dedicated to typography.
Rhinebeck, New York
What was once a trend-setting, phrase-coining icon of architectural splendor is now a rotting, forgotten hulk.
Los Angeles, California
Where the line between entertainment and aerospace blurs.
Kingston, New York
Neon signs that grace the windows of Bergdorf Goodman's and Tiffany & Co. come from this studio in Brooklyn.
Flagstaff, Arizona
This Arizona observatory is famous for investigations into Martian life, and as the place humans first spotted Pluto.
San Francisco, California
Tenacious mummies survived dental problems, eternal entombment, and more than their fair share of devastating fires.
Providence, Rhode Island
Last residence of H.P. Lovecraft featured in his story "The Haunter of the Dark."
Los Angeles, California
Hidden above a drug store on a nondescript corner of Lincoln Heights is a private clubhouse for intrepid explorers.