Places esftripod Wants to Go

Pennsylvania's own Roswell-style UFO mystery.

This little-known Revolutionary War fort is supposedly haunted by the ghosts of its past.

An indoor miniature village and labor of love for Laurence Geiringer, a model railroad enthusiast.

When the Austin Dam failed it destroyed much of Austin...and then it failed again.

The remains of a community that was forced to move for a dam that never materialized still rot in this Pennsylvania park.

A mine fire has been burning under the deserted town since 1962, but this church is still going strong.

A train station that was abandoned by the coal industry and converted into a cocktail bar. Now it’s home to the local visitor bureau.

Over 100 concrete munitions bunkers are all that remain of a Pennsylvanian village seized by the US government.

This abandoned Poconos resort is haunted by a history of kitschy romance and a violent fugitive.

These beautiful ruins deep in the Pennsylvania woods are thought to have been a ski lodge or a speakeasy, but no one really knows.

Once the "Eighth Wonder of the World," this iron railroad bridge was decimated by a tornado.

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

Collection of trolley cars in the woods represent one man's attempt to preserve transportation history.

This permanent exhibition celebrates the finest of our heartless automatons both real and fictional.

Sail through this subterranean show cave that is home to a legend that would go on to name nearly everything around it.

A stone arch leads to a cavernous 1930s spring house tucked away in the Pennsylvania woods.

An abandoned stretch of highway, deteriorating next to the operational one.

This set of three large, volcanic hot springs is a favorite haunt for intrepid divers.

Where a guard killed nine German prisoners during one of the worst 20th-century POW camp massacres in U.S. history.

This lava formation earned its whimsical name from the log-like formation of it stones.

What's a diner from the 1939 World's Fair doing in a remote Utah mountain town?

This quiet park's strange sedimentary spires were named after Kodak's color film.

This ghost town was once a cult-like religious utopian settlement.

A Mars simulation in the southern Utah desert.