Places CSH Wants to Go

A beautiful final resting place for some of the noteworthy deceased.

This road in the Great Smoky Mountains was supposed to assuage a displaced community, but ended up a $52 million dead end.

The only diamond mine in the world where you can keep what you find.

Railroad came. People came. Railroad left. Town died.

A museum within a museum, devoted to history's most questionable medical devices.

A multi-storied adobe complex has been inhabited for more than a thousand years.

A whimsical village of unique treehouses resides in a Washington forest.

More than five miles of underground passageways.

Who needs fancy modern water slides when this giant North Carolina rock works just as well?

The highest bridge in America was built for an almost unnervingly small amount of money.

Hundreds of glow-in-the-dark objects light up a museum in a historic zinc mine.

The longest navigable underground river in the United States is home to countless blind and albino animals.

When ecosystems collide in the arid Southwest.

Half of a waterfall goes into the river while the other half seems to disappear.

Visit this playground of waterfalls, caves and sinkholes.

An organ located deep within a cave, whose "pipes" are the geological features of the cave itself.

"Dark Sky Park" is heaven on Earth for astronomers, one of the rare U.S. locations with no artificial light pollution.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

A phenomenal assembly of pueblos in New Mexico is the most complete example of ancient ruins north of the border.

Hidden beneath a bridge, this waterfall is known for the large amounts of graffiti painted on its base.

The mysterious wonder of an underground waterfall is illuminated by multicolored lights.

A small flooded ghost town with a few scattered structures remaining.

The beauty of urban decay, hiding some dark secrets.

This "zoo" is a cross between a junkyard and a sculpture garden, featuring animals you won't see anywhere else.