Places canlarue Wants to Go

A mammoth pair of Civil War artillery guns abandoned out in the forest.

Hidden beneath the waters of Lake Michigan rests a perfectly intact ship from the early 1900s.

The lighthouse central to the 1980s horror classic "The Fog" is, in fact, located in one of the foggiest areas of the Pacific Coast.

Four abandoned towers hidden above the Douglas fir forest in Washington.

A young woman's senseless murder led to the controversial psychological theory of the "bystander effect."

The only National Monument ever to go missing for nearly 50 years then resurface in a dump.

This anatomical sculpture raises awareness about violence against women and promotes gender equality.

Discovered by a soldier during the Revolutionary War, these springs helped create an iconic South Carolina ginger ale.

A tiny art gallery in Sunnyside helps keep Portland weird.

A hidden grotto on the grounds of the Kane County Government Center.

A raised boardwalk winds through a thicket of stunted, century-old trees no more than nine feet tall.

The eerie ruins of an isolated abandoned town nicknamed "the Widowmaker" for its deadly gold mine.

Hordes of precariously balanced stone figures crowd the shores of the Hudson River.

A statue of the legendary Celtic warrior queen who fought the Roman invaders stands in one of the cities she once destroyed.

Spend the night in this formerly abandoned traditional Scottish village.

A subterranean world of tunnels links several buildings of this rare 19th-century asylum.

An enormous goose sits atop this nest-shaped home.

A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.

Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

An old vending machine serves up unpredictable beverages from its seemingly magical insides.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.