Sacramento, California
Patty Reed's Doll
A tiny survivor of the Donner Party disaster.
Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Sacramento, California
A tiny survivor of the Donner Party disaster.
Truckee, California
Bits and pieces from the ill-fated Donner Party's winter cabins.
Virginia City, Nevada
Beneath a Virginia City bar is the entrance to an abandoned gold mine.
Pāhoa, Hawaii
In 2018, Pohoiki Road was severed by lava flowing from the eruption of Kilauea.
Morristown, Tennessee
All that's left of the quintessential "cabin in the woods."
Grand Canyon Village, Arizona
This Native American settlement dates back to the Pueblo II period.
Hazlehurst, Mississippi
A blues musician so talented that people said he must have traded his soul to the devil was born in this house.
Hokkaidō, Japan
This mesmerizingly colorful pond looks like a scene straight out of a fairytale.
Roswell, New Mexico
Hidden in the New Mexico desert southeast of Roswell, nine small deep lakes formed inside sinkholes.
Venice, Italy
A small island less than half a mile from Venice is a forbidden island with a dark and twisted past.
Dunmore, Scotland
A once extravagant mansion, now reduced to ruin.
Bear Creek, North Carolina
A 120-year-old legend concerning an empty circular patch in the North Carolina woods.
Pray, Montana
The formidable fowl can be found standing near an isolated hiking path.
Bakersfield, California
An antique store houses the last operational diner from the defunct department store chain.
St. Augustine, Florida
Built to replace a house destroyed by a hurricane, this home is made entirely of shipping containers.
Craighat, Scotland
A strange rock with a sinister reputation lurks within the crimson waters of this Scottish glen.
Boston, Massachusetts
This upscale streetwear store is hidden behind a fake Snapple machine in the back of a deli.
Bodfish, California
This ramshackle ghost town is comprised of mining-era buildings collected from around the region.
Nixon, Nevada
As fallout from an irrigation project, a formerly cottonwood-lined stream is now a sandy, desolate, post-apocalyptic channel lined with weathered stumps and tumbleweeds.
Kaliningrad, Russia
A small part of Russia that does not touch any other part of Russia.
Gasadalur Village, Faroe Islands
This remote island village was in danger of depopulating completely until a tunnel was built to connect it to the rest of the world .
Faroe Islands
The largest lake in the Faroe Islands seems to be held hundreds of feet above sea level thanks to an optical illusion.
Kunoy, Faroe Islands
The abandoned village of Skarð aptly illustrates the idiom "Don't put all your eggs in one basket."
Faroe Islands
In Faroese legend, this sinister horse-shaped beast lures unsuspecting passersby only to drown them in the lake.