Midland, Texas
The Petroleum Museum
The petroleum industry brings you the joys of hydrocarbons and largest collection of antique oil rigs in the world.
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Midland, Texas
The petroleum industry brings you the joys of hydrocarbons and largest collection of antique oil rigs in the world.
Mineral Wells, Texas
Crumbling hotel echoes with the sounds of the '30s.
Burnet, Texas
This underwater old Texas hill town only resurfaces during harsh drought.
Llano, Texas
This grimly-titled Texas cemetery is all that remains of a Wild West settlement with possibly the worst name.
Seneca Falls, New York
What remains of the simple red brick chapel where the women's rights movement began.
Sodus, New York
A deteriorating 1990s Girl Scout camp in a beautiful lush park on Lake Ontario.
Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado
The ancient dwellings of the Puebloans, located in the cliffs of majestic mesas.
Crater Lake, Oregon
The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.
Orchard Park, New York
A natural gas leak provides a flickering flame beneath a waterfall.
Lee Vining, California
Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.
Adams, Tennessee
Home of an evil witch famous within southern folklore.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
This lab's maddening silence is good for business but bad for sanity.
London, England
One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.
Sweetwater, Tennessee
Enormous lake at the bottom of a unique cave system.
New Orleans, Louisiana
Site of a former hidden treehouse in New Orleans.
Mecca, California
The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.
Yosemite National Park, California
Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.
Corbett, Oregon
A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.
Fort Bragg, California
A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.
Page, Arizona
A sharp bend in a dramatic river canyon cut through red rocks.
Seattle, Washington
An old vending machine serves up unpredictable beverages from its seemingly magical insides.
Belize
A massive underwater sinkhole made famous by Jacques Cousteau.
New York, New York
A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.
Las Vegas, Nevada
Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.