Places Jochen Duckeck Wants to Go

Explore the dark underground corridors of this graffiti-covered former military fortification.

According to local lore, this narrow passageway through two large rocks was accidentally created by the devil himself.

Beautiful waterfalls grace a canyon visibly torn by a violent tornado.

Gorgeous cave resemble a winter wonderland.

The ghostly remains of what was once the world's richest copper mine.

A table rock formation that has been intriguing West Virginians for years.

A cave on the Maryland border where civilians took refuge during the bloodiest battle of the Civil War.

The site of the Wellington avalanche, one of the America's worst railroad disasters.

In a 345-million-year-old cave that's 200 feet underground, dinner awaits.

This forgotten Frank Lloyd Wright house is an architectural marvel at the end of a sleepy residential street.

This old cement mine has been used as everything from a mushroom farm to a recording studio.

Travel through the hidden underbelly of the city in colorful tunnels filled with art and history exhibits.

One man's vision and a labor of love of many.

Beneath a Virginia City bar is the entrance to an abandoned gold mine.

Cave carved out of a huge snow drift collapsed killing one and injuring five in July 2015.

The small cave that housed Tennessee's "first citizen."

Board a mine car and descend the #190 slope 300 feet underground into the Clark Vein of coal.

This 40-room dwelling tucked within a cliff was built by the basin's prehistoric residents.

Mine your own precious stones.

The United States's largest hand-dug well is topped with a state-of-the-art museum.

The show pony of cave systems, Fantastic Caverns manages to live up to its name.

One man's real life disfigurement inspired a lasting local legend surrounding an eerie tunnel.

Six tiny houses built for working class people form the largest intentional cluster of Wright homes anywhere.

Where there's quartz, there must be gold. Thus is the story of the mines of Julian, and the titillating times of the Gold Rush.