Places mellauri Wants to Go

The stickered marker pinpoints where the only maintained road in the United States crosses into the polar region.

The "Gateway to the Arctic" connects Barrow's indigenous population with the sea and its traditional industry: whaling.

Upside-down trees serve as natural flower pots in this hanging garden of Alaska.

The graffitied ruins stand hidden within the Pennsylvania woods.

The deserted railroad town had a last gasp as a ghost town attraction before being abandoned for good.

Only a few signs remain of the buried Colorado mining town that supplied the uranium for the first atomic bomb.

Hundreds of drawings left by the land's previous inhabitants remain mysterious.

A unique collection of drawings that represent Fremont Native American culture.

One of the world’s largest collections of petroglyphs records 2,000 years of human activity.

It's safe—and permitted—to walk across these twin natural sandstone arches.

At this gas station in the middle of the desert, a convenience store has been carved directly into the rock.

A floating McDonald's built for Expo '86 is now a derelict relic on Burrard Inlet.

This WWII-era military installation once held an entire city within its walls - now, its walls are falling down.

The ruins of a town wiped out by the second-largest earthquake in recorded history.

This ghostly Alaska village still clings to a steep cliffside despite having been abandoned for over 50 years.

Siberian whale bones stand as cairns marking location of an ancient butcher yard.

This industrial area was the dumping ground for massive amounts of trash, some of which washes up as tiny bits of sea glass.

A beach made of semi-precious green sand on the Big Island of Hawaiʻi.

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

This abandoned boat was left in place thanks to its rotting beauty.

At least 14 twice-retired ships were sunk to make a lovely rusting breakwater in Comox Harbour.

An abandoned logging settlement nestled in the woods near a popular ski town.

This egg-shaped treehouse was inspired by "sport sleeping."

The remains of a Canadian train crash are now mouldering beneath layers of rust and graffiti.