Places ERuler39 Wants to Go

Abandoned silver mine strewn with wrecked and twisted structures.

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

Thanks to a quirk of elevation this gift shop produces magic doughnuts that are found nowhere else on Earth.

The highest bridge in America was built for an almost unnervingly small amount of money.

This "zoo" is a cross between a junkyard and a sculpture garden, featuring animals you won't see anywhere else.

A breathtaking array of ancient Pueblo structures and artifacts counterintuitively preserved by neglect.

The ancient dwellings of the Puebloans, located in the cliffs of majestic mesas.

On October 26, 1963, a 12-kiloton nuclear device was detonated here in granite some 1,211 feet below the ground surface.

An ill-fated attempt to grow wheat in the sagebrush steppe of northeastern Nevada.

A piece of the iconic wall found an unlikely new home in a Vegas bathroom.

The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.

New fungal and bacterial species call this deadly lake home.

The victims of a free-floating Japanese bombing during WWII are remembered by this stone monument.

As a show of peace, a Japanese naval pilot gifted his 400-year-old Samurai sword to the Oregon town he bombed.

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

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

A 1940s nuclear reactor built to produce plutonium for the Manhattan Project.

This monument remembers the first Japanese Americans forcibly relocated during World War II.

One man's eclectic collection of treasures found at sea.

An abandoned network of military bunkers and tunnels open for anyone willing to descend into the darkness.

The site of the Wellington avalanche, one of the America's worst railroad disasters.

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

Tour the original street level of Port Angeles, buried underground in 1914.

The highest point in Washington state is a volcano covered in glaciers.