Places CLed1024 Wants to Go

Abandoned power station once home to a squatter community, now being developed into an arts center.

The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.

Mai Tais and Navy Grog served up in one of the original tiki bars.

This eerily well-preserved coal town was saved from destruction by a Sean Connery movie.

The oldest burial ground in the city, final resting place of city founders, Ohlone natives and murderers alike.

Ruins of a Carnegie family mansion on Cumberland Island.

A Texas cave network is home to some of the world's most spectacular-looking and bizarrely named mineral formations.

One day a year it is legal to jump off of this astoundingly tall bridge that spans an Appalachian gorge.

This red-eyed chrome beast pays homage to the popular modern myth of West Virginia's insectoid monster.

A Swedenborgian glass church surrounded by redwoods sits perched atop a massive landslide area.

Life-sized sculpture of a blue whale made of hand-recycled plastic trash.

Once connected to the outside world by a single train track, this ghost town is looked after by the National Park Service.

Giant origami sculptures tucked into desert scenery beckon passers-by to explore further.

Abandoned concert venue legendary for its rock counterculture.

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

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

Experience a quartz crystal sound bath inside a storied, all-wood sound-chamber.

These sub-farmland caves are home to a majestic stalactite known as the "Crystal King."

Once an ambitious nature spa, these forest ruins now provide a serene monument to failure.

A wunderkammer hidden on the top floor of the Hartford statehouse.

The perfectly named cave drop is the deepest in the continental United States, almost matching the height of Seattle’s Space Needle.

Prehistoric animals decorate this popular outdoor park.

This little-known collection holds everything from "Dracula" notes, to the manuscript of "Ulysses," to the forged works of Shakespeare.

The remains of the iconic train crash from the movie 'The Fugitive' can still be found rusting along the Great Smoky Railroad.