Places eljojoe Wants to Go

A collection of huge, site-specific sculptures sitting in the Montana woods.

See just what life was like in a 19th-century prospecting town.

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

Supposedly Satanic numbers adorn this preserved submarine sail.

This museum glorifies the humble potato.

This former Mormon settlement is reemerging from the receding waters of Lake Mead.

Ancient pueblos built into the base of a natural canyon wall.

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

A preserve with 75,000 ancient drawings remains the realm of public – not just scientific – exploration.

A small metropolis of Pueblo cave dwellings have been carved right into the hillside of this national monument.

A stunning, abandoned limestone quarry in southern Indiana provided the stone to erect the Empire State Building.

Despite time, colonization, and the brutal New Mexican heat, these Pueblo ruins still stand.

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

The remains of the dam that unleashed a 15-foot wall of water on Denver.

European castle ruins in an American state park are actually the product of death and grief.

This giant meditative chakra sits peacefully in the Flathead Valley of western Montana.

Home to the deepest rift anywhere on Earth.

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

A miraculous natural phenomenon known as "the spring that breathes."

Mysterious ancient boulder carved with petroglyphs in the mountains of Western North Carolina.

The ruins of this abandoned fort now stand as a picturesque reminder of America's march West.

This ghost town was once a cult-like religious utopian settlement.

New fungal and bacterial species call this deadly lake home.

Crystal clear lake with a shoreline of travertine located in a Colorado canyon.