Places Entropical Paradise Wants to Go

The second largest waterfall by volume in the U.S., Willamette Falls is outdone only by Niagara in the amount of water that is pushed northward.

Hollowed out cedar log tubs set in an ancient towering forest.

An increasingly eccentric apartment building, topped with winged beasties.

A shrine to a skeleton saint in the city of angels.

Established in the '60s, a family-owned tropical drink bar founded by Ray Buhen, bartender to the stars.

A library of rare occult books in Los Angeles.

Despite a legend that says this highest peak in Oregon was climbed in high heels, scores of people have died on its slopes.

You might know it as the Overlook Hotel, but the inside is not going to be familiar.

Delightful disarray of found objects and clutter.

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

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

One-of-a-kind preserved ruins of an abandoned 1880s church in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood.

A strange and haunting monument of unknown origin in the historic Graceland Cemetery.

This modest post office sits on the site of H.H. Holmes' famous murder castle.

Cemetery featuring rare glass-fronted columbarium.

Chicago's museum dedicated to the history of bondage and fetishism is more textbook than titillation.

Chicago's largest cemetery is full of beautiful Victorian monuments and more than a few ghost stories.

Each of these gorgeous, intricately decorated rooms is painstakingly crafted to the scale of 1 inch: 1 foot.

An enormous park-like oasis, full of famous Chicagoans’ graves.

This massive stained-glass masterpiece is thought to be the largest Tiffany dome in existence.

This taxidermic smorgasbord was co-created by an artist poached from the Museum of Natural History.

An old soap company building now houses one of Minneapolis’s oldest independent non-profit art galleries.

A museum dedicated to the exploring past, present, and future innovations.

20,000 pieces in a Frank Gehry-designed building.