Places toothbat Wants to Go

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

Natural rock water slides hidden in the remote forests of northern Idaho.

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

This former luxury resort in Kaua'i is now an abandoned relic.

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

This airstrip atoll is uninhabited by humans, but absolutely full of birds.

The grand marquee of this abandoned Hawaiian theater remembers the building's elegant past.

This tiny Hawaiian island is slowly coming back to life after being bombed during naval training exercises.

Once home to over 8,000 exiled Hawaiians suffering from Hansen's Disease.

A model of a galactic embassy is hidden in plain sight along the highway, proposed by a UFO religion to find the aliens that created life on Earth.

The southernmost point in the United States is a beautiful place to look at but a deadly place to wade in.

A true treehouse near Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park.

The only royal palace on U.S. soil has been a territorial capitol, a military headquarters, and a prison for a queen.

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

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

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

The island of Lanai in Hawai'i is a paradise for cats and cat lovers.

This black shoreline is made up of exploded lava particles.

One of the largest private collections of cars manufactured by the short-lived Franklin Automobile Company.

This replica of the Indian spiritual master Meher Baba's tomb stands unfinished in the New Mexico desert.

At this research institute, the chile is king.

Hidden in the Chihuahuan Desert resides an amazing collection of petroglyphs.

Recycling meets art in this colorful barricade.

This collection of Wild West movie memorabilia also claims to hold some secrets of the Lost Dutchman's mine.