Places Darrell Powers Wants to Go

This abandoned boat sits on a nude beach, is shaped like a UFO, and is covered in graffiti.

100-year-old shipwreck you can walk up to at low tide.

The longest continuous lava tube in Oregon.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.

These giant metal horses graze on a hilltop near the Montana highway.

A little-visited ghost town state park offers a glimpse into Montana’s "Silver Queen."

This off-the-beaten-path abandoned town is a relic of Montana's silver mining boom.

This amazingly preserved Gold Rush town is a historian's dream.

Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.

Where the famed daredevil attempted to launch himself across a canyon in a custom-built rocket.

These century-old beehive-shaped kilns were built to produce charcoal for nearby mines.

It was once used as a classroom to teach mining skills to local high school students.

A few dilapidated structures are all that remain of this deserted former silver mining town.

Jail from the 19th century that was built by inmates.

When in Idaho, sleep in a giant potato.

A mining town, now abandoned, was built in a canyon so narrow that the railroad ran right through the hotel lobby.

One of the few surviving examples of the first lock and dam system built on the Ohio River.

Hikers can still stroll beneath the long conveyer of this abandoned mining facility hidden in a West Virginia river gorge.

This abandoned dream castle and its cemetery look out over the city that once inspired their creation.

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

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

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

A small storefront museum explores the history and myth of West Virginia's famous urban legend.