Orchard Park, New York
Eternal Flame Falls at Chestnut Ridge County Park
A natural gas leak provides a flickering flame beneath a waterfall.
Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Orchard Park, New York
A natural gas leak provides a flickering flame beneath a waterfall.
Washington, D.C.
A painfully obvious spy house sits right across the street from the Russian Embassy.
El Prado, New Mexico
These aggressively sustainable art homes look like something out of 1970's science fiction.
Brooklyn, New York
A band of aerialists and circus performers putting on incredible shows in East Williamsburg.
Cody, Wyoming
One man's ambition created this psychedelic log home.
Hebron, New Hampshire
This narrow canyon has been carved by the river over thousands of years into spectacular and curious forms.
Rougemont, North Carolina
A sculptor's dream castle turned fantastical ruin.
Cresco, Pennsylvania
These beautiful ruins deep in the Pennsylvania woods are thought to have been a ski lodge or a speakeasy, but no one really knows.
Washington, D.C.
There's a 12-foot-tall replica of the Washington Monument hidden under a manhole nearby.
Washington, D.C.
A tiny piece of the Moon is embedded in this stained glass masterpiece.
San Francisco, California
The randomness of this wall of lava lamps helps encrypt up to 10 percent of the internet.
Sisters, Oregon
This lake in the Cascades lives up to its name, disappearing down a hole every spring.
Baltimore, Maryland
This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.
Juneau, Alaska
Breathtakingly blue walls shimmer inside the "Glacier Behind the Town."
Roscoe, New York
An abandoned castle owned and ignored by Masons carries a cursed history.
Manitou Springs, Colorado
Hidden beneath a bridge, this waterfall is known for the large amounts of graffiti painted on its base.
Lookout Mountain, Georgia
A bizarre roadside attraction and the first instance of miniature golf in the world.
Amarillo, Texas
A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the “Golden Age” of the American automobile.
Beacon, New York
Collapsing castle on the Hudson river was once the storage site of military surplus business.
Bryson City, North Carolina
This road in the Great Smoky Mountains was supposed to assuage a displaced community, but ended up a $52 million dead end.
Chattanooga, Tennessee
The mysterious wonder of an underground waterfall is illuminated by multicolored lights.
Ogdensburg, New Jersey
Hundreds of glow-in-the-dark objects light up a museum in a historic zinc mine.
Holbrook, Arizona
See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.
Atlanta, Georgia
Tour the sci-fi-esque reality of governmental disease management.