Places Edited by Howard Goldbaum

A concrete arrow from a 1920s network of airmail beacons is still preserved at the western edge of suburban Reno.

Wandering this ancient burial place offers a glimpse of the afterlife in the fresco-adorned tombs of an ancient Etruscan civilization.

The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.

Burping, gurgling geothermal mud pots by the Salton Sea.

A gothic palace of endless stalagmites and pseudoscorpions waits within one of the world's most beautiful caves.

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.

An abandoned cyanide mill is now a haunting magnet for graffiti and illegal parties.

Achill's most recently abandoned village dates back to to the Age of Enlightenment.