Places makanabender Wants to Go

A new kind of theme park for adults off the Las Vegas Strip.

Mile-long cave system near Great Smoky Mountains.

Collection of trolley cars in the woods represent one man's attempt to preserve transportation history.

Half of a waterfall goes into the river while the other half seems to disappear.

What's left of the ruins of the 1893 Columbian Exhibition, or World's Fair, also known as the White City.

During the Industrial Revolution this “Temple of Invention” was full of intricate miniature machines and gadgets.

A Texas cave network is home to some of the world's most spectacular-looking and bizarrely named mineral formations.

You'll need cowboy boots to trek to this old-fashioned saloon nestled in a giant natural cave.

One of the most scenic falls in Massachusetts has a history of death and grim legend.

The perfectly named cave drop is the deepest in the continental United States, almost matching the height of Seattle’s Space Needle.

The often-overlooked ruins of one of the first buildings designed by famous landscape architect Frederick Olmsted.

This family mausoleum is steeped in symbolism and looks more like a fantasy location than a grave.

Once an ambitious nature spa, these forest ruins now provide a serene monument to failure.

This large midwestern cavern features impressive rock formations and an underground waterfall.

The Magical World of George Phar Legler.

This historic national park is covered in the stunning ruins of red rock pueblos.

The only remnant of a small mining town is an abandoned railroad tunnel that is steeped in ghostly lore.

If there's another drive-through golf-cart bar in a bat-filled cave on top of a mountain, we don't know about it.

Fittingly, America's museum of architecture is itself a magnificently designed old building.

These tourist trap caverns are said to be the former home of a legendary Pennsylvania Hermit.

"Dark Sky Park" is heaven on Earth for astronomers, one of the rare U.S. locations with no artificial light pollution.

Georges Seurat’s pointillist masterpiece has been recreated in Ohio in topiary form.

These Great Lakes sea caves accessible by boat in the summer turn into temples of ice reachable by foot in the winter.

A once grand hotel is being retaken by the wilderness it once capitalized on.