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Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

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

The seamy, underground secrets of Portland's criminal past.

2300-year-old Roman road connecting the empire.

According to the local folklore, the myriad colors of this lake are the result of a lovelorn wizard's blunder.

Pompeii's less famous neighbor is still revealing her secrets.

An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.

A battle between nature and architecture in the Cambodian jungle.

The ruins of Theodore Roosevelt's beloved ranch stand in a forgotten corner of a national park named after him.

These former Cold War launch sites have been preserved for tourists to see where the button might have been pushed.

Three legendary, living albino buffalo roaming their pastures for all to see.

A popular rock that acted as a waymarker for American pioneers.

Long before guestbooks and hotels, frontier travelers signed their names on this rock face.

The largest hot spring in the United States is, as the name suggests, a stunning show of natural color.

A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

The remains of a former logging boom town, crumbled away in the forest.

A rare tour of a commercial jet assembly plant, held inside one of the largest buildings in the world.

A nearly abandoned 19th-century town on the Palouse.

This Cold War missile launch site has been abandoned for 40 years.

A whimsical village of unique treehouses resides in a Washington forest.

A Lycian city of the dead carved into the hillside of Southern Turkey, complete with startlingly human touches.

These tombs were built into the side of a mountain so that ancient angels could reach the dead.