Places engelhardus Wants to Go

The world's largest man-made underground caverns offer unparalleled underwater wonders.

If there's another drive-through golf-cart bar in a bat-filled cave on top of a mountain, we don't know about it.

Once an ambitious nature spa, these forest ruins now provide a serene monument to failure.

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

This abandoned prison castle has become an imposing gallery of graffiti art.

Incredible miniature towns and buildings created and decorated with thousands of tiny rocks.

Where school buses go to die and be reborn as whimsical works of art.

A mysterious inscription may hold a clue about the "Lost Colony" of Roanoke.

The remains of one of America's first radiation testing grounds still rest ominously in a Georgia forest.

This ever-changing arrangement of naked dolls even caught the attention of "The Walking Dead" crew.

A herd of plastic cows hangs out under this transmission tower in rural Georgia.

The world's first time capsule lies behind a welded steel door in Atlanta.

This kitschy tavern is also home to rare early editions of "Treasure Island."

One of Savannah's oldest and most haunted cemeteries, featuring graves desecrated by Sherman's Union Army.

These lush groves of fan palms rise up like oases out of southern California's Colorado Desert.

Hike amid the palm trees that thrive among Southern California's Indio Hills.

After just one epic test blast, this literal loose cannon proved too explosive for combat.

A sweet tribute to Georgia's official state vegetable, which even has its own mascot: "Yumion."

This 13-foot smiling peanut in Georgia helped Jimmy Carter win the 1976 presidential election.

The abandoned ruins of America's first private zoo are open for exploration in the Catskills.

A distillery built on (and above!) mobster Dutch Schultz's Prohibition-era underground moonshine business.

The remains of what was once the world's steepest passenger funicular.

The abandoned husk of a mental institution that failed to save a Jazz Age icon still sits nearly unchanged.

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