Places earlarkin Wants to Go

Before its closure in 2002, this South Dakota mine was the largest and deepest gold mine in Western Hemisphere.

A cemetery housing wild west legends in South Dakota.

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

Sleep snuggled in a sphere suspended atop the forest canopy of Vancouver Island.

This hauntingly stark structure is a relic of an industrial past.

A decaying gateway to a never-built housing collective.

This 820-foot-high spiral ramp is a walkway to the sky.

Tour the original street level of Port Angeles, buried underground in 1914.

A giant sculpture dedicated to a staple of South Bend food culture.

A Roman-style column in Oregon hides a spiral staircase inside.

You might recognize this historic Oregon mansion from its appearance in 'The Goonies.'

Home of Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose.

This lake in the Cascades lives up to its name, disappearing down a hole every spring.

A small Oregon museum is filled with a robust history.

A raised boardwalk winds through a thicket of stunted, century-old trees no more than nine feet tall.

Santa Monica's oldest restaurant, decorated with set pieces from the Mutiny on the Bounty.

In one Santa Monica parking lot a mushroom cloud made of chains heralds a message of peace.

Like a kitschy mirage in the Mojave, this eatery serves up classic 50s-style diner meals and a dinosaur sculpture garden.

An old railroad grade built for the construction of Hoover Dam is now a recreational trail featuring several tunnels and sweeping views of Lake Mead.

A museum has some wedding cake dating to the Teddy Roosevelt administration, and some bacon from FDR's.

The largest wildlife crossing in Utah allows local fauna to safely traverse the six-lane Interstate 80 at Parleys Canyon.

The location along the shores of the Great Salt Lake of what was once called, "The Coney Island of the West", now sits barren due to arson and time.

This prison-turned-museum is a remnant of the Old West's grizzly, violent past.

A self-built castle made by a mysterious man.