Salinas, California
Fort Ord
Once America’s most beautiful army base, this abandoned military fort on the coast of Monterey Bay has been left to the elements.
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Salinas, California
Once America’s most beautiful army base, this abandoned military fort on the coast of Monterey Bay has been left to the elements.
Williamsburg, Virginia
Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents sit, crumbling in a field in Virginia.
Huelva, Spain
This amended headstone marks the grave of a participant in one of the most successful military deceptions of all time.
England
Surreal riveted sea forts once protected the Kent shores from German attack.
Boonville, California
A local dialect born in the late 19th century is only spoken in this isolated California valley.
Midway, Utah
This geothermal hot spring hides beneath a slowly growing mineral dome.
Reykjanes, Iceland
Iceland's largest geothermal mud pool is a little bit haunted and a little bit dangerous.
Italy
This Italian foot path winds through the mountains via 52 individual tunnels.
Cedar Creek, Texas
A 24-hour vending machine restocked daily with homemade full-sized pecan pies.
Winthrop, Washington
Hundreds of hopeful gold miners came here to get rich, but only two years later the small town was deserted.
Corbett, Oregon
A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.
Las Vegas, Nevada
Dyed by iron oxide over centuries, these sandstone rocks rise thousands of feet into the sky.
Kerry, Ireland
Perfectly preserved ancient monastery in an impossibly dramatic location on a rocky island in the Atlantic.
Bled, Slovenia
This one-time health resort was used by aristocrats around the world.
Orick, California
Canyon walls shrouded in ferns.
Sweetwater, Tennessee
Enormous lake at the bottom of a unique cave system.
Province de Tinghir, Morocco
One of the most spectacular canyons in the world.
Glenwood Springs, Colorado
Crystal clear lake with a shoreline of travertine located in a Colorado canyon.
Kitakyushu, Japan
An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.
Sossusvlei, Namibia
This "dead marsh" sits among the largest sand dunes in the world, a forest frozen in time.
Duffield, Virginia
A 300-yard long natural tunnel runs through a ridge deep in the Appalachian Mountains.
Dolores, Colorado
A breathtaking array of ancient Pueblo structures and artifacts counterintuitively preserved by neglect.
Puerto Princesa, Philippines
Five miles of underground river link lake to ocean.
Berkeley Springs, West Virginia
Berkeley Springs State Park boasts the nation's only monument commemorating presidential bathing.