Places Melanicholia Wants to Go

Unknown to many, this sparkling turquoise lake hides amid Oregon's snowcapped mountains.

The world's last remaining store of its kind.

Formerly secret, precariously perched boulders.

Strange rock formations tower above the river that snakes through this enchanting Icelandic canyon.

Peek into a cave of giant, glimmering crystals.

An obscure waterfall that looks like something out of a fantasy novel.

A little-known occurrence of fossil wood in northern Washoe County, Nevada, near the Black Rock Desert.

Railways may have forged this quintet of lovely tunnels, but now they are open to hikers.

The final resting place of the camel who served with the Confederate Army during the Civil War.

A preserved stretch of ancient fossilized trees with an impressive gem collection to boot.

A dramatically eroding canyon thousands of miles from the desert.

A blues musician so talented that people said he must have traded his soul to the devil was born in this house.

How did a French journalist’s grave become the sexiest statue in the cemetery?

The longest continuous lava tube in Oregon.

The crypt of the imposing Stephensdom holds royal intestines and thousands of skeletons.

This abandoned subway station beneath the Waldorf-Astoria hotel is allegedly used to secretly transport presidents.

This unmarked and unloved Manhattan subway grate created one of the most iconic images in American cinema.

This dazzling Buddhist temple was constructed from over one million ceramic tiles salvaged from a British shipwreck.

A Buddhist shrine in a cave protected by macaques next to dark passages lined with creepy paintings.

This elegant carving of the Buddha guards a small Buddhist temple within a cave.

A white Buddhist temple with a golden restroom.

Bizarre dirt trail winds a narrow path above the tree line.

A meditative walk up 353 stairs leads to a majestic white Buddha overlooking Pai.

This roadside wonder is as mysterious as it is beloved.