Places engelhardus Wants to Go

This eerily well-preserved coal town was saved from destruction by a Sean Connery movie.

Back in 1952, you could get a mushroom cloud chaser with your atomic cocktail.

A cabin completely covered in coffee mugs, where visitors are welcome to leave one of their own—if they can find an empty nail.

The remains of the iconic train crash from the movie 'The Fugitive' can still be found rusting along the Great Smoky Railroad.

This bright yellow relic is the final survivor of a short burst of seashell-shaped petrol pumps.

The old Route 66 town straddling Texas and New Mexico died along with the Main Street of America.

Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.

These towering spires and glowing walls are carefully crafted from hundreds of thousands of icicles.

This head-spinningly bizarre Depression-era art cave is wall-to-wall quartz and Jesus.

A well-preserved Ancestral Puebloan ruin tucked beneath a desert cliff.

These abandoned grain silos and tunnels are an urban exploration dream.

A futuristic temple of light uses prisms and rainbows to create an atmosphere of peace.

Great place to have a drink and a bite to eat in an atmosphere laden with New York's Bohemian past.

A multi-storied adobe complex has been inhabited for more than a thousand years.

These Pre-Columbian petroglyphs contain representations of birds, deer, hunters, and even some early Native flute players.

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

This rare example of a "tidefall" is a spectacular drop from the cliffs down onto the beach.

Paranormal investigators claim this abandoned asylum is the most haunted spot in the eastern U.S.

An architect in Aspen used psychedelics as his muse while building this mushroom masterpiece.

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

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

Even Henry David Thoreau found this glacial pothole irresistible.

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

Witnessing the might of this dessert-colored desert waterfall is a rare, powerful treat.