Places S Martin Wants to Go

A small Richmond island dotted with the remnants of hundreds of years of history.

Heron, whitewater rapids, and urban industrialism all add to the beauty of this concrete nature walk.

Collapsing castle on the Hudson river was once the storage site of military surplus business.

Enormous lake at the bottom of a unique cave system.

This natural spring not only claims to heal the wounded but it has also been willed to God.

The only free-standing, vertical sundial in the US was keeping standard time before it was even invented.

Hidden amid a collection of trails is the site of a tragic crash.

The scant remains of this flooded historic village can be explored in one of the most remote areas of the Great Smokies.

This natural wonder drops 16 stories straight down through rare flora and streaming waterfalls.

One person’s lost luggage is another person’s treasure.

A mountaintop space observatory that is certified dark.

This abandoned lighthouse looks like a rusting oil rig, but has managed to survive a number of storms.

A small Wyoming town is home to the state's oldest-operating soda fountain.

One of the smallest towns in the United States.

An underwater road considered a possible Atlantis location.

The world’s largest underwater sculpture is found just off the coast of Nassau.

A full-scale sculpture of a mermaid and baby grand piano hidden underwater by David Copperfield.

The time thousands of bags of chips washed ashore in the Outer Banks is memorialized in a local museum.

A forgotten sea village stands silent after hurricanes deemed it obsolete.

Nine of the very few concrete ships ever made in the U.S. are beautifully decaying off a Virginia pier.

Mysterious ancient boulder carved with petroglyphs in the mountains of Western North Carolina.

First established in 1696, this settlement was abandoned after the Revolutionary War.