Places Calmmseas Wants to Go

This rare example of a "tidefall" is a spectacular drop from the cliffs down onto the beach.

These tourist trap caverns are said to be the former home of a legendary Pennsylvania Hermit.

Once the "Eighth Wonder of the World," this iron railroad bridge was decimated by a tornado.

Lady Liberty's first beacon of enlightenment is now displayed in a museum near the statue.

A stealthy Apache hideaway that became the haunting site of a mass grave.

The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.

A well-preserved Ancestral Puebloan ruin tucked beneath a desert cliff.

These Pre-Columbian petroglyphs contain representations of birds, deer, hunters, and even some early Native flute players.

These aggressively sustainable art homes look like something out of 1970's science fiction.

Even Henry David Thoreau found this glacial pothole irresistible.

This ruined fort hidden at the top of Central Park can't seem to keep from losing its historical plaques.

They call this long foot bridge a swinging bridge, but really it's the bouncing you have to watch out for.

A hidden beach at the end of a tunnel of mangrove trees.

A 300-ship graveyard, with a few still visible at low tide.

The Grand Canyon of Texas.

The ghost town left by the worst nuclear disaster of all time is being taken over by nature and urban explorers.

Bad farming practices caused this unnatural natural wonder.

A Roman spa buried deep beneath the City of London.

Bizarre lunar-like landscape with thousands of large stone "hoodoos."

A multi-storied adobe complex has been inhabited for more than a thousand years.

A natural gas leak provides a flickering flame beneath a waterfall.

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

The second largest waterfall by volume in the U.S., Willamette Falls is outdone only by Niagara in the amount of water that is pushed northward.

Sandstone rock formations that look like they belong on the cover of a progressive rock album.