McMurdo Station, Antarctica
Discovery Hut
A wooden hut from the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.
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Places on this traveler's wishlist.
McMurdo Station, Antarctica
A wooden hut from the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.
Atlanta, Georgia
This stone is a marker of one millionaire's personal vendetta against gravity.
Walker County, Georgia
The perfectly named cave drop is the deepest in the continental United States, almost matching the height of Seattle’s Space Needle.
Wallace, Idaho
A mining town, now abandoned, was built in a canyon so narrow that the railroad ran right through the hotel lobby.
Cedar Lake, Michigan
There are two legends behind the origin of this unusually tall sanitary structure.
Nantes, France
Massive puppet-automaton machines created by French artist collective Machines de l’Ile.
Orlando, Florida
Disney's abandoned animal island is now an overgrown ruin that was almost the coolest attraction ever.
Saint Paul, Minnesota
A 115-year-old restored German dining hall awaits those who venture beneath the Minnesota State Capitol.
Stockholm, Sweden
Eat a Nobel banquet from any year in the basement of Stockholm's City Hall.
Berlin, Germany
A tour of underground Berlin takes you through WWII air raid shelters and tunnels used to smuggle people out of East Germany.
Oracle, Arizona
A reproduction of earth's many biomes.
Yakutat, Alaska
Gorgeous cave resemble a winter wonderland.
Fairbanks, Alaska
Mind-blowing carvings and fantasy ice scenes grace the largest year-round ice environment in the world.
Juneau, Alaska
Breathtakingly blue walls shimmer inside the "Glacier Behind the Town."
Groton, Connecticut
The US Navy's only submarine museum is also home to the world's first nuclear submarine.
Creede, Colorado
This once-popular otherworldly landscape was formed by one of the largest volcanic eruptions in history.
Jersey City, New Jersey
Now abandoned, the first public health hospital in the U.S. saw more than one million immigrants from around the world.
Winthrop, Washington
Hundreds of hopeful gold miners came here to get rich, but only two years later the small town was deserted.
Sewell, Chile
The “City of Stairs” sits high in the Andes, above the world’s largest underground copper mine.
Wamego, Kansas
A wonderful collection of all things Oz is nestled in the heart of Kansas.
Beaufort, North Carolina
A maritime museum holding the remains of Blackbeard's pirate ship.
Vancouver, Washington
A library of only unpublished manuscripts.
Mineral Wells, Texas
This former Texas landfill is flush with 300 million-year-old fossils, all fit for the taking.
Washington, D.C.
There's an old indoor swimming pool hidden directly underneath the White House Press Briefing Room.