Williamsburg, Kentucky
Cumberland Falls State Park
Moonbows over Kentucky.
Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Williamsburg, Kentucky
Moonbows over Kentucky.
Ransom, Kansas
This 100-foot tall bluff located in the western plains of Kansas overlooks a massive reservoir.
Bluffton, Indiana
Home to some of Indiana's last bison herds.
Mountain Township, Illinois
In the Shawnee National Forest, amazing rock formations peer through the treeline.
Kula, Hawaii
Ten acres of the Kula Forest Reserve make up this wondrous state park.
Lumpkin, Georgia
Bad farming practices caused this unnatural natural wonder.
Lewes, Delaware
World War II-era bunkers are hidden under the beaches of this picturesque park, which is still scattered with wartime watchtowers.
Hamden, Connecticut
Amazing views of Long Island Sound can be seen from this mountaintop tower.
Trona, California
One of the most unusual geological features, recognizable from a dozen hit movies.
Murfreesboro, Arkansas
The only diamond mine in the world where you can keep what you find.
King Salmon, Alaska
In 1912, this idyllic Alaska landscape was blown apart in the largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century.
Phil Campbell, Alabama
Famous for its bio-luminescent inhabitants, known as "dismalites."
Créteil, France
A cluster of cylindrical apartment buildings nod to the city’s vegital past.
Fairview, Utah
A small flooded ghost town with a few scattered structures remaining.
Rockville, Utah
Settled by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1859, this abandoned frontier town has appeared in several films.
Drummond, Montana
This amazingly preserved Gold Rush town is a historian's dream.
Bridgeport, California
Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.
Egg Harbor City, New Jersey
This historic iron-working village is now a ghost town so immaculate that it looks as though it was recently built.
Weatherly, Pennsylvania
This eerily well-preserved coal town was saved from destruction by a Sean Connery movie.
Yermo, California
A desert ghost town—occupied for only 12 years—was once home to more than 500 silver mines.
Earlimart, California
A ghost town originally established and governed solely by Black Americans seeking a place of their own, free from discrimination.
Central City, Colorado
This deserted Gold Rush town is home to a Masonic lodge that, strangely enough, still holds meetings.
Eagle, Alaska
This remote fort on the Yukon River is a vestige of the wild Alaska gold rush.
Wallace, Idaho
A mining town, now abandoned, was built in a canyon so narrow that the railroad ran right through the hotel lobby.