Places CaitlinSetnicar Wants to Go

The remains of a ruined mansion memorialize the 1906 earthquake.

The one-time watch house for incoming ships at the Golden Gate now stands abandoned and hidden in trees.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

An artsy hidden staircase leads to breathtaking views of San Francisco.

Bring your own cardboard to the slippery slopes of concrete hidden in a neighborhood park.

The first lookout in Yosemite.

The ghostly remains of what was once the world's richest copper mine.

This rugged area of red rocks and arches is often considered one of the most beautiful places on Earth.

During its heyday, 72 one-ton buckets from this dredge bore into the Powder River excavating vast gold deposits.

Improbably, the largest wildlife refuge in the conterminous 48 states sits just northwest of Las Vegas, Nevada.

A luxurious doomsday bunker hidden beneath an unassuming Las Vegas home offers the best of subterranean suburbia.

A futuristic-looking beach house built for the owner of a snack food brand.

See just what life was like in a 19th-century prospecting town.

An underground blaze turned this village into a ghost town.

Hike the unusual hoodoos and rock formations that form this little-known natural wonder.

The eroded core of an ancient volcano is now accessible by a short hike.

Founded by members of the Tohono O’odham Nation, this one-room joint's James Beard–winning fry bread is light as a cloud.

Open since 1938, this diner has kept its fountain, malt machine, and all the gum that greasers left beneath its counter.

Despite a recent paint job, the factory still sits empty.

Siberian ghost town built by gulag prisoners.

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

One of the world's oldest and most massive living organisms is a grove of quaking aspens.

Some of the world's only freshwater seals live in one very special lake in Russia.