Places Deano Wants to Go

This Colorado hiking trail provides a small gold mine of abandoned gold mines.

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

Her final resting place was intended to be modest and private, but the power of her popularity continues to draw visitors.

In a city filled with Frank Gehry buildings, one stands out as one of the architect's weirder works.

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

These aggressively sustainable art homes look like something out of 1970's science fiction.

A once grand hotel is being retaken by the wilderness it once capitalized on.

The second largest waterfall by volume in the U.S., Willamette Falls is outdone only by Niagara in the amount of water that is pushed northward.

One of the largest-ever mental hospitals now sits abandoned, surrounded by 25,000 unmarked graves.

One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.

A stealthy Apache hideaway that became the haunting site of a mass grave.

A short hike into the mountainside forest reveals a decaying 1890s town.

Despite being one of the most photographed vistas in the Rockies these twin peaks are rightfully known as the "Deadly Bells."

A picture-perfect town, perfect for blowing up.

These beautiful ruins deep in the Pennsylvania woods are thought to have been a ski lodge or a speakeasy, but no one really knows.

The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.

Dyed by iron oxide over centuries, these sandstone rocks rise thousands of feet into the sky.

Big gun installations, built over a massive cemetery, now abandoned & hidden in trees.

The superstar of Cold War nuclear bunkers has been featured in countless films but is now barely operational.

Bizarre lunar-like landscape with thousands of large stone "hoodoos."

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

A sculptor's dream castle turned fantastical ruin.

There's a 12-foot-tall replica of the Washington Monument hidden under a manhole nearby.