Places makanabender Wants to Go

Though strikingly beautiful, Seattle's other railway station is now largely forgotten.

This lake in the Cascades lives up to its name, disappearing down a hole every spring.

Sail through this subterranean show cave that is home to a legend that would go on to name nearly everything around it.

Japanese gardens dedicated to the Japanese farmer that refused to throw in the trowel.

These beautiful ruins deep in the Pennsylvania woods are thought to have been a ski lodge or a speakeasy, but no one really knows.

Canyon walls shrouded in ferns.

A stone arch leads to a cavernous 1930s spring house tucked away in the Pennsylvania woods.

The one-time watch house for incoming ships at the Golden Gate now stands abandoned and hidden in trees.

Ralph Waldo Emerson spent two years living here decades before it became a Frederick Law Olmsted-designed park.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

This Florida sinkhole hides a rainforest-like micro-environment in its depths.

This charmingly homemade amusement park has been growing for 40 years.

A wondrous old library overlooking the nation's capital.

A 300-yard long natural tunnel runs through a ridge deep in the Appalachian Mountains.

An inconspicuous footbridge beloved by San Diego locals.

The highest bridge in America was built for an almost unnervingly small amount of money.

Dyed by iron oxide over centuries, these sandstone rocks rise thousands of feet into the sky.

A reproduction of earth's many biomes.

Hidden beneath a bridge, this waterfall is known for the large amounts of graffiti painted on its base.

Giant, natural amphitheaters made of delicate geological formations called "hoodoos."

Eons ago, a rushing lava river formed this pristine passage through solid rock.

This woodland architectural installation acts as a camera obscura for the heavens.

Oregon's unexpected high desert, displaying layers of time in a colorful show.

This road in the Great Smoky Mountains was supposed to assuage a displaced community, but ended up a $52 million dead end.