Places Kelli Mullin Wants to Go

The ghost town left by the worst nuclear disaster of all time is being taken over by nature and urban explorers.

For two weeks every June, fireflies in the Smoky Mountains perform an astonishing light show.

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

A beautiful, dense forest in the shadow of Mount Fuji, with a tragic reputation.

Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.

This beautiful building in the heart of Manhattan's Financial District was empty for decades.

The mysterious, fantastical woodland inspiration for "The Lord of the Rings."

A magical place that lets you play in and explore the world of Studio Ghibli.

An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.

World's largest collection of serial killer artwork and other macabre exhibits.

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

On the windswept Dakota plains there is a memorial to circus workers who were struck down by lightning.

Hidden inside this Arizona fast food franchise is an in-depth exhibit on the famed WWII counterintelligence program.

Ancestral Puebloan ruins, natural arches, and box canyons abound in this seldom-visited corner of Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park.

Twenty-seven massive radio antennas on the high plains of New Mexico search for life on other planets.

Along the old Route 66 is an abandoned trading post made from old telephone poles, built by a former circus clown.

This Route 66 classic sports a giant fiberglass rabbit that you can ride.

A stealthy Apache hideaway that became the haunting site of a mass grave.

This Arizona observatory is famous for investigations into Martian life, and as the place humans first spotted Pluto.

The wreckage of a deadly bomber plane crash can still be found near an Arizona peak.

A mysterious spirit totem at the edge of Navajo lands.

An arsenic-filled pool in the Grand Canyon takes on the appearance of a giant, overflowing pumpkin.

This reclusive Hopi village in Arizona has been continuously populated longer than anywhere else in America.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.