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The mysterious, fantastical woodland inspiration for "The Lord of the Rings."

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.

During prohibition, corrupt city officials ran drinking dens under the streets of Downtown Los Angeles.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?

Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.

An artificial crater field that trained astronauts for lunar exploration.

The wreckage of a deadly bomber plane crash can still be found near an Arizona peak.

Thanks to this small string of islands World War II still hasn't officially ended between Russia and Japan.

Siberian whale bones stand as cairns marking location of an ancient butcher yard.

The site of one of Japan's very few American occupations during World War II still holds the relics of a roundly disastrous campaign.

America's smallest "national forest" has only 33 trees.

While not recognized by Guinness, this chocolate waterfall is likely to be the world's largest.

An Alaska livestock farm devotes itself to harvesting wool from creatures that once ran with mammoths and sabertooth tigers.

This whimsical stacked cabin looks like something out of a children's book.

Four-story concrete hotel never opened to customers.

The king of U.S. high points towers over every other peak on the continent.

This ghostly Alaska village still clings to a steep cliffside despite having been abandoned for over 50 years.

Don't be a grizzly man. Get personal with Alaska's wild bears from the safety of this conservationist camp.

This small city where almost everyone lives in the same building can only be reached via North America's longest tunnel.

The ruins of a town wiped out by the second-largest earthquake in recorded history.