Places docreport Wants to Go

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

Once luxurious, these oceanfront beach homes have been left to succumb to the elements as the beach is slowly washed away.

A bunker "with enough U.S. currency to replenish the cash supply east of the Mississippi" in the event of nuclear war now protects nitrate film.

This museum sits on the site of a decommissioned military communications base.

“It's the quality” (but probably also the drive-through donut tunnel) that has attracted diners since 1968.

The remains of a World War II-era Japanese American internment camp dot a windswept Colorado hill.

Volcanic stone sentinels stand watch at a Korean Bell Garden in Virginia.

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

A historic arena where the Beatles played their first concert in the U.S.

Sid Vicious famously punched a hole in the wall of this iconic music venue.

This beacon for pre-radar pilots once guided Charles Lindbergh to a safe touchdown in Tulsa.

This dormant volcanic crater has been converted from a roiling pit of magma to a pleasant hiking spot.