Places nejuum Wants to Go

The remains of the dam that unleashed a 15-foot wall of water on Denver.

This former small town was destroyed not by the motor oil it sprayed the ground with but by the toxic waste that was added.

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.

Train debris from the deadliest avalanche in United States history can still be found in the ravine where so many perished.

Bits of architecture from a town destroyed in World War I now decorate this hotel garden.

This memorial marks the devastating day that Texas City was destroyed in a daisy chain of exploding ships.

Costumed elves and mountain bikers co-exist peacefully at this abandoned Christmas-themed adventure park.

A lake with hundreds of ancient skeletons surrounding it. The surprise is what killed them.

A disconnected rotary phone for "calling" lost loved ones offered a unique way of dealing with grief in disaster-stricken Japan.

The site of the one of the most deadly train wrecks in American history.

In an area where the remnants of WWI are discovered on a regular basis this preserved frontline trench may be the most amazing.

This memorial to the thousands of Indian dead during WWI was callously used for target practice during WWII.

The site where one of the most famous poems of World War I was composed is preserved to honor the legacy of the work.

This military mausoleum captures the solemn grandeur that most memorials only aspire to.

Every autumn, this grove of living fossils erupts in a blaze of brilliant golden-yellow leaves and stinky fruit.

In an effort to escape the horrors of slavery, one man mailed himself to freedom.

The final resting place of a controversial man who was instrumental in plucking the banjo from obscurity.

Long buried under the 20th-century landscape, this lift lock of the Alexandria Canal is the lone remnant of an ambitious early American transportation project.

A massive, majestic mammal watches over pedestrians from his perch atop a former B.P.O.E. lodge.

The first national memorial to honor all women suffragists stands on land where suffragists were once imprisoned.

Erosion has transformed this sandstone boulder into a massive dune-filled cavern.

This homestead was occupied by Union soldiers, who believed the owners were signaling Confederate forces.

This unique structure is the only one of its kind in Virginia.

An out-of-the-way wildlife haven with a rich and storied past of harboring thousands of fugitive slaves, or "Maroons" during the mid 1800s.