Places sburke4444 Wants to Go

Dyed by iron oxide over centuries, these sandstone rocks rise thousands of feet into the sky.

The mysterious wonder of an underground waterfall is illuminated by multicolored lights.

The artist James Turrell is repurposing an extinct volcano crater as an observatory to experience the cosmos.

A short hike into the mountainside forest reveals a decaying 1890s town.

The Boston square dedicated to the dark poet who was born nearby.

The site where Poe “in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance” likely died.

One of the oldest reform schools in the United States, home to wayward boys such as Merle Haggard, now abandoned.

The home made famous by the 1983 holiday classic is now a perfectly preserved shrine to the movie.

The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.

One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.

A wondrous old library overlooking the nation's capital.

This small-town Connecticut restaurant gives each diner a free book from its vast library.

Tour the world's largest deep-hole dimension granite quarry, where you can view the plant where gravestones are made and roll a ball down the outdoor granite bowling alley.

An organ located deep within a cave, whose "pipes" are the geological features of the cave itself.

Once a mortuary that held the remains of Buffalo Bill, this Denver hotspot is now a death-fixated restaurant.

A Victorian mansion, painstakingly reproduced to appear just as the the Munster's family home did on TV.

A Saint Nicholas-themed ghost town in the Mojave desert.

The abandoned personal amusement park of the King of Pop.

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

Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.

The beauty of urban decay, hiding some dark secrets.

Storyville was New Orleans' historic red light district and hotbed of jazz music, sometimes referred to simply as "The District."

Stay in a room with a view... of the bottom of the ocean.

The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.