Places venusonegative Wants to Go

The ghost town left by the worst nuclear disaster of all time is being taken over by nature and urban explorers.

This bright and bubbly Palm Springs hotel was the brainchild of an iconic drag queen.

This unique bed and breakfast was first constructed during the 1800s by a Russian immigrant family.

Version of the French Riviera destroyed by the sea.

This little museum has an exhibit devoted to the elusive forest denizens.

A popular tourist cave with a dark past.

The interior of the Overlook Hotel in "The Shining" was based on this Yosemite original.

A sign at the end of the Santa Monica Pier marks the traditional end of the legendary American highway.

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

A former utopian healing center created by a huckster and built by derelicts.

An abandoned 1920s-era stretch of cabins now overshadowed by the 66 Motel.

The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.

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

After the nearby mercury mine shut down, this town was abandoned and declared a Superfund site.

Ten 25-foot-tall, beehive-shaped kilns, abandoned in Death Valley.

Once the product of an inexplicable gold strike, this ghost town is now home to one man and his love of classic machines.

All of the 20 occupied houses in this mostly abandoned town feature some curious display of junk art.

A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.

In this small Phoenix taxidermy emporium, you can find everything from a squid in a jar to a freeze-dried toad.

In a 345-million-year-old cave that's 200 feet underground, dinner awaits.

This geothermal hot spring hides beneath a slowly growing mineral dome.

An isolated early 20th-century gold mine in the remote Pine Forest Range contains much preserved equipment.

A well-preserved set of ruins not far from Lovelock.

Red ocher pictographs survive in this tufa rock shelter on the shore of an ancient lake.