Places Curious Crow Wants to Go

The most powerful waterfall in all of Europe.

Climb right into the heart of this colorful Iceland volcano.

A winding, blood-red tunnel of hardened lava navigable by foot.

The picturesque remains of an abandoned silver mine slope down to Tagish Lake in the Yukon.

A lonely cemetery holds the history of a gold mining town turned ghost town.

The steepest tramway in North America provides stunning views of the out-of-the-way Wallowa Mountains in northeastern Oregon.

A stunning landscape of bunkers that once stored chemical weapons.

During its heyday, 72 one-ton buckets from this dredge bore into the Powder River excavating vast gold deposits.

A mine in the Sierra Nevada that produced nothing but barren quartz.

The oldest continuously-operating Chinese restaurant in the United States has been in business since 1911.

Derelict buildings are all that remain of a complex at the site of one of the worst mining disasters in Montana history.

Giant pinnacles in the sun-scorched lands of Southern Utah have been nicknamed "white ghosts."

A sharp bend in a dramatic river canyon cut through red rocks.

All of the 20 occupied houses in this mostly abandoned town feature some curious display of junk art.

A secret fresh water spring for animals and humans alike hidden along the most famous road in the United States.

The contents of this safe survived a 37-kiloton nuclear bomb.

A mining town once rife with murderous disputes over its copious treasures now creates income as a popular spot for photo shoots.

This old selenite mine is dotted with tiny crystals that make it shimmer like it's covered in glitter.

This large maar crater in Oregon is the bigger brother to Hole in the Ground.

These wave-cut overhangs on ancient Lake Chewaucan contain some of the oldest evidence of human habitation in North America.

In eastern Oregon, two mineral hot springs sit along the Malheur River in a fairly desolate area where peace and quiet are abound.

On the edge of this small Washington Park, a piece of the Earth's mantle has come to the surface.

Nuclear reactor created the plutonium used on Nagasaki.

An abandoned 19th-century hospital now swirling in ghost stories.