Places jdmoore Wants to Go

Hidden beneath the waters of Lake Michigan rests a perfectly intact ship from the early 1900s.

Years of neglect and nature took a toll on this 19th-century lighthouse.

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

A volcanic tunnel illuminated by natural skylights offers a shaded respite from the desert sun.

The Victorian-era greenhouse is stuffed with tropical plants, and open 365 days a year.

Incredible miniature towns and buildings created and decorated with thousands of tiny rocks.

A remarkable time capsule of American manufacturing deep in Maryland coal country.

Along the historic Mother Road is an old gas station with a secret counterfeiting past.

The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.

This vintage "streetcar boat" lay at the bottom of Lake Minnetonka until the 1980s.

The unusual lighthouse looms over waves of prairies with no sea in sight.

A secret, rocky playground hidden amongst the plain white beaches of the Florida coast.

Ruins of a Carnegie family mansion on Cumberland Island.

Arrr! The most authentic collection of pirate artifacts in the world... matey.

A lonely beacon, precariously perched atop a remote sliver of rock.

The final remnant of the Arkansas zinc industry is this historically protected ghost town.

Wall to wall taxidermy at Denver's oldest and most exotic steakhouse.

Every winter, the wind carves blocks of frozen water into beautiful abstract shapes inside this unusually curved tunnel.

An abandoned early-20th-century boomtown sits within the Calico Rock city limits.

Once an ambitious nature spa, these forest ruins now provide a serene monument to failure.

A 131-year-old wunderkammer of Texas history.

Remnants of a quarry company town still stand on the banks of the Wapsipinicon River.

During WWII the U.S. Navy conducted primitive drone strikes on this Lake Michigan lighthouse.

A former barn converted into a massive train diorama.