Places megantheforce Wants to Go

This historic New Orleans cemetery is the final resting place of members of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

Before becoming a public park, this spot was a shell midden, a fort, and an amusement park.

An abandoned underground bunker not far from downtown New Orleans.

All that remains of this small town is its mass grave and a myth of a voodoo priestess who predicted its demise.

One of the best-preserved Native American mounds remaining in the southern United States.

A dramatically eroding canyon thousands of miles from the desert.

The 19th-century ruins hide deep in an overgrown forest.

This ancient settlement contains some of the largest earthen mounds in North America.

An eerie and beautiful group of columns mark the site of a grand mansion lost to time and fire.

Many generations of travelers have passed through the steep, smooth walls of this canyon.

Perhaps the world's only gas station inspired by a political scandal.

Fifty years after a “blast blasted blubber beyond all believable bounds,” this idyllic natural area commemorates the carnage.

This abandoned boat sits on a nude beach, is shaped like a UFO, and is covered in graffiti.

In Washington's Yakima Valley lies a town "where dinosaurs roam."

Legend says that these tall basalt pillars are the petrified wives of a trickster god.

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

A heavenly experience, right here on Terra Firma.

A 36-ton remnant of the last Ice Age now resides amid picturesque vineyards.

A haunted hot springs hotel that went from healing retreat to asylum before it was restored.

Hidden in Portland’s West Hills, a 170-year-old marker literally stakes out the Pacific Northwest.

10,000 flowered plants bloom in the City of Roses.

The seamy, underground secrets of Portland's criminal past.

The only Native American museum along the Oregon Trail, run by the peoples who have lived on the land for generations.

Statues of Ramona Quimby, Henry Huggins, and Ribsy the dog in the park where their adventures "really happened."