Places ckoohle Wants to Go

An abandoned incline railway site is now a green space with six acres of trails connecting hilltop neighborhoods.

This spot memorializes one of the greatest plays in NFL history, unless you happen to be a Raiders fan.

This picturesque stream was up until recently the site of a ten story mountain of slag and sewage.

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

Found art has transformed this Pittsburgh neighborhood into a psychedelic dream.

Before its closure in 2002, this South Dakota mine was the largest and deepest gold mine in Western Hemisphere.

A crumbling ghost town on the South Dakota prairie.

A ghost town now swarming with dozens of prairie dogs.

Seth Bullock, the sheriff of Deadwood, built this town immediately after Teddy Roosevelt’s death in 1919.

The oldest extant wooden jail in South Dakota and possibly the United States. 

More than 7,000 gallons of water pour over these cascading red quartzite waterfalls every second.

Calidum et Deliciose Succosum!

Known as "The Hill of the Little Devils."

These cliff and rock formations are made out of Sioux Quartzite.

An entire city block built completely out of petrified wood.

A cemetery housing wild west legends in South Dakota.

The highest point in South Dakota contains the ashes of Valentine McGillycuudy, the "Holy White Man."

The deserted railroad town had a last gasp as a ghost town attraction before being abandoned for good.

This replica stave church looks like a piece of Norway was simply plopped down in South Dakota.

The ravine where Jesse James supposedly performed an impossible jump to evade capture.

Hidden behind Lincoln's head is a chamber containing enamel plates documenting American history, sealed in a teakwood box in a titanium vault.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.

This prehistoric sinkhole lured exclusively male mammoths to their death, much to the delight of science.