Lake Elsinore, California
Elsinore Naval and Military School
This stately structure has been abandoned for half a century.
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Lake Elsinore, California
This stately structure has been abandoned for half a century.
San Diego County, California
The world's largest wooden trestle stretches across this desert canyon in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park.
Santa Ysabel, California
Spend a day hanging out with domesticated Russian foxes.
Borrego Springs, California
Along a California highway is a kind of Jurassic Park made of metal.
Mecca, California
A museum dedicated to a sea that should have never been.
Niland, California
An off-grid art installation that encourages its visitors to imagine a world without waste.
Bombay Beach, California
Version of the French Riviera destroyed by the sea.
Calipatria, California
The sea once considered an ecological wasteland is now called "crown jewel of avian biodiversity" by scientists.
Calipatria, California
At this deceptively beautiful beach, nothing is what it seems.
Calipatria, California
Burping, gurgling geothermal mud pots by the Salton Sea.
San Bernardino County, California
This dormant volcanic crater has been converted from a roiling pit of magma to a pleasant hiking spot.
Three Rivers, California
Four hundred granite steps were built into this massive rock by the National Park Service.
Hume, California
This hidden fire lookout offers spectacular views of Sequoia National Park.
Inyo County, California
The tragedy of the Japanese internment camps is remembered here by a stark "Soul Consoling Tower."
Lone Pine, California
This rock formation named for its unique shape is one of many that call the Alabama Hills home.
California City, California
The "3rd largest" city in California is an empty mirage of suburbia in the middle of nowhere.
Three Rivers, California
A 19th-century cabin built into a hollowed-out Sequoia tree.
Rosser, Manitoba
Mysterious concrete spires left on a small Canadian hill.
Winnipeg, Manitoba
The intense competition of the 19th-century fur trading industry played out at this fort in Western Canada.
Sweden
Largest island in the Baltic Sea experiences such idyllic weather that roses bloom in the middle of December.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Funhouse of found art and participatory sculpture.
Duluth, Minnesota
A spooky defunct railroad tunnel now part of a sprawling trail.
Minnesota
A haunting army of decomposing, moss-covered stuffed animals and dolls guard this swinging truss.
Duluth, Minnesota
This rare vessel mixed luxury with labor before being converted to a museum and sometimes haunted maze.