Places FiZ Wants to Go

A 90-year-old underground water reservoir offers a more industrial kind of tranquility.

Mirrors and glass shards cover every inch of this arrestingly beautiful mosque.

On the Oregon coast is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

For two weeks every June, fireflies in the Smoky Mountains perform an astonishing light show.

This abandoned amusement park was built on a site with a dark history.

The "mysteries" of this quintessential roadside oddity were almost destroyed by neglect but were saved by fans of kitschy wonder.

Hikers can still stroll beneath the long conveyer of this abandoned mining facility hidden in a West Virginia river gorge.

One day a year it is legal to jump off of this astoundingly tall bridge that spans an Appalachian gorge.

An abandoned 1920s school with a mysterious history.

This abandoned school has had many lives since the early 1900s, and all of them doomed.

Hundreds of hopeful gold miners came here to get rich, but only two years later the small town was deserted.

A small Richmond island dotted with the remnants of hundreds of years of history.

Along the Palisades skyline are the ruins of a large mansion built in 1911 and demolished in the 1930s.

An eerie and beautiful group of columns mark the site of a grand mansion lost to time and fire.

A hidden gem on the lawn of the U.S. Capitol Building designed by landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted.

Before Metro, Washington had a robust streetcar network—and you see the remains of this infrastructure if you know where to look.

Helen Keller once broke ground on this historic center for the study of technologies to benefit the hearing impaired.

A wondrous old library overlooking the nation's capital.

Once the supplier for noteworthy projects like the National Cathedral, this old brickworks now lies abandoned.

Bubbling up from deep underground is the warm crystal clear water that fills the Warm Springs Pools, America's oldest spa.

No one knows who painted this mysterious mural in a Penn State basement.

This fort down the Potomac from Washington, D.C. was once the only defensive fort protecting the capital.

The ruins of this long-abandoned unsuccessful gold mine can still be found.

This English-inspired Maryland garden is home to acres of opulent plant life including bushes shaped into an entire fox hunt.