New Orleans, Louisiana
The Tree of Life
This knobby, drooping New Orleans oak is a favorite place both for climbing and for meeting giraffes.
Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
New Orleans, Louisiana
This knobby, drooping New Orleans oak is a favorite place both for climbing and for meeting giraffes.
Roswell, New Mexico
Hidden in the New Mexico desert southeast of Roswell, nine small deep lakes formed inside sinkholes.
Moose, Wyoming
This rustic old building is said to be the most photographed barn in America.
Laval, Québec
This haunted corpse of a drive-in is now a graffiti-covered ruin.
Alexandria Bay, New York
A castle built for love, and abandoned due to heartbreak.
Montreal, Québec
This crumbling industrial fortress has attracted daredevils, filmmakers, and historians.
Montreal, Québec
This 1967 experiment in modular architecture was designed to be a new model for urban living.
Montreal, Québec
Designed by Buckminster Fuller, this relic of the 67 Expo survived fire and ice.
Duluth, Minnesota
The watery grave of an impractical idea.
Larnaca, Cyprus
The water here is so clear you can see the mysteriously sunken ship from the surface.
New Zealand
The oceanic dumping ground where spaceships go to die.
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
No Gordon Lightfoot song, only a barebones monument to greed.
Adamstown, Pitcairn Islands
The watery grave of Captain Bligh's famous ship.
Mexico
A lake at the bottom of the ocean.
Beijing, China
Beijing's version of Disneyland, completely abandoned, mostly destroyed.
Manacapuru, Brazil
An Amazonian hotel is the ultimate treehouse and provides stilt based accommodation.
Wiscasset, Maine
An 18th-century home taken over by antique automatons and musical machines (Closed).
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
One of the first sewers in the Americas.
St. Augustine, Florida
Gutted airplanes slowly decay in a Florida field.
Lindon, Colorado
A tiny nondenominational church harkens back to the days of the first homesteaders in the region.
Last Chance, Colorado
Winter and summer solstice aligned sculpture in the middle of nowhere.
Anchorage, Alaska
Clean, cold drinking water flows from a nondescript pipe in a roadside rock face.
Provo, Utah
In the heart of Brigham Young's promised land sits a festering plot of industrial ruin that has been claimed by society's outcasts.
Eden, Utah
This massive metal sculpture in the shape of a folded paper airplane overlooks a Utah mountain.