Places makanabender Wants to Go

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

This historic patch of real estate offers a glimpse of colonial Boston.

One man's swirling six-acre monument of stone.

Reclaimed by nature, the ruins of Doodletown, New York are remnants of a town consumed by a state park.

Giant granite rocks standing end-to-end like a train of circus elephants.

Over thousands of years, this slot canyon was carved out of the bed of an ancient lake.

A deserted hodgepodge of experimental structures designed by nearby university students.

The short-lived railroad town in central Oregon has been abandoned since the 1930s.

This lone tree and dramatic sandstone outcropping are so beloved by Michiganders they can be found on one of the state’s coins.

Despite violent work crews and massive delays this abandoned canal tunnel was built to last into the modern day.

This park contains one of the largest concentrations of cedar glades, a unique and rare ecosystem.

These strange large stones served as a campsite and lookout post for generations of Native Americans.

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

A geological oddity formed by two rivers carving out a mass of limestone on both sides.

The overgrown ruins of a once thriving World War I-era copper mine.

To truly appreciate Detroit's landmark skyscraper, you have to step inside.

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

An unfinished rail tunnel that has since been used to house cheese and bats.

It would take 35 firetrucks to fill this enormous glacial pothole.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

Enchanting gardens surround a derelict mansion, all hidden in plain sight behind a stone wall.

Hiding behind a grocery store is a spectacular cavern carved as part of an old limestone quarry.

A bike being "eaten" by a tree is the real Vashon legend behind popular children's book, "Red Ranger Came Calling."

The arboretum whose marshy soil sucked up the dreams of housing developers.