Flagstaff, Arizona
Wupatki National Monument
This historic national park is covered in the stunning ruins of red rock pueblos.
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Flagstaff, Arizona
This historic national park is covered in the stunning ruins of red rock pueblos.
Bloomington, Indiana
A stunning, abandoned limestone quarry in southern Indiana provided the stone to erect the Empire State Building.
LaCrosse, Washington
An obscure waterfall that looks like something out of a fantasy novel.
Los Angeles, California
A common entry point to the Griffith Observatory trail holds its own wonders.
Boston, Massachusetts
Ralph Waldo Emerson spent two years living here decades before it became a Frederick Law Olmsted-designed park.
Lumpkin, Georgia
Bad farming practices caused this unnatural natural wonder.
Lincoln, New Hampshire
Even Henry David Thoreau found this glacial pothole irresistible.
Mount Washington, Massachusetts
One of the most scenic falls in Massachusetts has a history of death and grim legend.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.
Grand Marais, Minnesota
Half of a waterfall goes into the river while the other half seems to disappear.
Salt Lake City, Utah
The location along the shores of the Great Salt Lake of what was once called, "The Coney Island of the West", now sits barren due to arson and time.
Mansfield, Ohio
Prison made famous by The Shawshank Redemption has been out of commission since 1990.
Mono County, California
This naturally heated mountainous creek has created a group of neon blue pools of potentially deadly boiling water.
Jadwin, Missouri
Once an ambitious nature spa, these forest ruins now provide a serene monument to failure.
Delray Beach, Florida
Japanese gardens dedicated to the Japanese farmer that refused to throw in the trowel.
Hebron, New Hampshire
This narrow canyon has been carved by the river over thousands of years into spectacular and curious forms.
Suches, Georgia
They call this long foot bridge a swinging bridge, but really it's the bouncing you have to watch out for.
Cleveland, Ohio
The home made famous by the 1983 holiday classic is now a perfectly preserved shrine to the movie.
Shiprock, New Mexico
Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.
Haleyville, Alabama
148 feet long and in the middle of a verdant forest.
St. Augustine, Florida
A luxurious 1880s hotel with its fair share of Tiffany stained glass, Edison electricity, and of course, ghosts.
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.
Woodstock, New York
A once grand hotel is being retaken by the wilderness it once capitalized on.
Mount Baldy, California
Abandoned bridge hidden deep in the San Gabriel Mountains.