Places mbasch Wants to Go

Ruins of the elaborate house where the enigmatic costume designer threw glamorous parties for New York's theatrical elite.

Hidden in plain sight on the Hudson River is an abandoned train station where nature has taken over.

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

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

A late sculptor's last project was to turn this abandoned cement factory into a castle-themed amusement park.

An abandoned early-20th-century boomtown sits within the Calico Rock city limits.

A century-old network of freight tunnels underneath the city's historic business district.

Robots, lasers, and whoopee cushions, oh my!

World's second largest particle accelerator, where nature reveals its secrets.

A replica viking ship from the Chicago World's Fair is still in dry dock in an Illinois park.

An abandoned meat mecca now serves as an excellent locale for urban exploration.

An urban forest overtakes what was the greatest failure of utopic urban housing.

This frequently-photographed waterfall takes only a short hike to visit.

100-year-old shipwreck you can walk up to at low tide.

A massive sea stack famous for its appearance in The Goonies.

No one knows how this Pacific Northwest spruce tree came to have so many trunks.

Two massive rock outcroppings on the Oregon coastline.

The longest continuous lava tube in the continental U.S. offers 2.5 miles of dark explorations for the adventurous.

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

An extraordinary mixture of natural beauty and man-made phenomena.

The second largest waterfall by volume in the U.S., Willamette Falls is outdone only by Niagara in the amount of water that is pushed northward.

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.

The World's First 24 Hour Coin-Operated Art Gallery!! Plastic, Styrofoam, and Elvis--If you can't get rid of it, you might as well worship it!!

Is this the most Portland place ever?