Orchard Park, New York
Eternal Flame Falls at Chestnut Ridge County Park
A natural gas leak provides a flickering flame beneath a waterfall.
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Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Orchard Park, New York
A natural gas leak provides a flickering flame beneath a waterfall.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
House of vintage taxidermy and Steampunk sculptures in a quiet Pittsburgh neighborhood.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Philadelphia boasts one of the best — and most often overlooked — traditional Japanese gardens in North America.
Coudersport, Pennsylvania
"Dark Sky Park" is heaven on Earth for astronomers, one of the rare U.S. locations with no artificial light pollution.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.
Shiprock, New Mexico
Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.
Farmington, New Mexico
Seemingly grown on some other world, these New Mexico rock formations look like a disused science fiction set.
New Mexico
One man has carved a number of natural New Mexico caves into psychedelic sandstone temples.
Santa Fe, New Mexico
An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.
Marfa, Texas
Museum mostly in name, and only a restaurant depending on the day, this place could only exist in Marfa.
San Antonio, Texas
A 131-year-old wunderkammer of Texas history.
Fort Worth, Texas
A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.
Bedford, Indiana
The longest navigable underground river in the United States is home to countless blind and albino animals.
Indianapolis, Indiana
Once adorning a New York skyscraper, these reclaimed ruins now haunt an Indiana park.