Places Ramshackle Wants to Go

Enormous piles of historically significant stones, dumped by Congress in a forest, and abandoned for 60 years.

The sci-fi villain is a little-known inhabitant of the U.S. capital's largest cathedral.

The site of the climactic scene from the classic horror film is now a historic landmark.

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

Formerly a lovely white sand beach this Hawaiian stretch is now a trap for countless tons of trash.

A model of a galactic embassy is hidden in plain sight along the highway, proposed by a UFO religion to find the aliens that created life on Earth.

This black shoreline is made up of exploded lava particles.

A true treehouse near Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park.

An underground mansion with fruit-bearing trees and grapes growing beneath the surface of central California.

Where the writer penned his famous story about a jumping frog.

Eons old volcanic activity created one of the most stunning rock formations in the United States.

This naturally heated mountainous creek has created a group of neon blue pools of potentially deadly boiling water.

Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.

No Gordon Lightfoot song, only a barebones monument to greed.

The only natural lake in the world that drains into both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

An architect's childhood fantasy treehouse made real.

Buried beneath the New Mexico sands are believed to be millions of copies of Atari's E.T. video game.

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

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

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

This fast-food outlet is the only space and UFO-themed McDonalds in the world.

This is one really big nut.

The largest self-built castle in the U.S., six decades in the making.

A recreation of an Old West apothecary full of curios.