Places summermaddux Wants to Go

Home to the deepest rift anywhere on Earth.

This lookout tower built in the 1930s is now an in-demand cabin with what might be the best view of the Seneca State Forest.

Atop an active stratovolcano, two lakes separated by a narrow strip of land.

Colorful clay cliffs tower over an unofficial nudist beach on Martha's Vineyard.

The land is home to swimming ponies and a legendary 18th-century treasure.

Moonbows over Kentucky.

In the Shawnee National Forest, amazing rock formations peer through the treeline.

Ten acres of the Kula Forest Reserve make up this wondrous state park.

One of the most unusual geological features, recognizable from a dozen hit movies.

At this Denver landmark, the meals are compulsory, the sopapillas are complimentary, and the insanity is everywhere.

Settled by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1859, this abandoned frontier town has appeared in several films.

This amazingly preserved Gold Rush town is a historian's dream.

This eerily well-preserved coal town was saved from destruction by a Sean Connery movie.

This historic iron-working village is now a ghost town so immaculate that it looks as though it was recently built.

A desert ghost town—occupied for only 12 years—was once home to more than 500 silver mines.

See just what life was like in a 19th-century prospecting town.

A living snapshot of a different time in America is preserved and maintained by a community of volunteers.

A ghost town originally established and governed solely by Black Americans seeking a place of their own, free from discrimination.

This deserted Gold Rush town is home to a Masonic lodge that, strangely enough, still holds meetings.

A mining town, now abandoned, was built in a canyon so narrow that the railroad ran right through the hotel lobby.

This former mining hub holds a surprising abundance of undisturbed relics from the Old West.

A lawless town deep in Death Valley was famous for its riches and death rate turned YouTube famous.

When he found his hometown was no more, Lowell Davis decided to recreate a "new" ghost town from scratch.

An abandoned town is hidden in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.