Places SamWPiano Wants to Go

One of the largest-ever mental hospitals now sits abandoned, surrounded by 25,000 unmarked graves.

The largest cemetery in the American Southeast is a hidden gem near the heart of Atlanta.

A bizarre roadside attraction and the first instance of miniature golf in the world.

Tour the sci-fi-esque reality of governmental disease management.

Just a few miles from downtown Atlanta is a trail covered in a crazy collection of outsider art.

One of Hawaiʻi’s largest petroglyph fields contains a number of depictions of people.

Hawaii’s largest cemetery rests inside an extinct volcano crater.

Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park is home to one of Polynesia’s largest petroglyph fields.

Inside, visitors are treated to the rich history of sugar farming and its impact on Hawaiian society.

Images chiseled into the basalt here date back an estimated 300 years.

This narrow coastline trail through the dense Kauai wilderness is among the most beautiful and dangerous in the world.

A cooled lava flow from the Haleakalā volcano formed these surreal-looking columnar basalt structures.

This legendary urban waterfall creates a dazzling display of rainbows.

This industrial area was the dumping ground for massive amounts of trash, some of which washes up as tiny bits of sea glass.

Climbing this abandoned railway leads to breathtaking vistas of O‘ahu.

A series of waterfalls and pools that flow through the 'Ohe'o Gulch and into the ocean.

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

Hide from the tourist hordes in these relatively unknown, and unguarded lava caves.

Watch the newest land on the planet form before your eyes.

These picturesque Hawaiian falls are home to a rare species of fish that uses a special sucker to climb up cliffs.

Earth's tallest volcano is sacred to Native Hawaiians, and home to a dozen world-class observatories.

A tunnel of hardened lava along Maui’s famous Road to Hana.

A natural history museum with an extensive collection of bird dioramas.

The highest point in Alabama was almost completely deforested, but is now home to protected towers and trees.