Once connected to the outside world by a single train track, this ghost town is looked after by the National Park Service.

Mysterious glowing orbs float through the desert night.

An abandoned vacation home spent a decade taking on legends. It's now taking on water.

The site of the first couple's first kiss is commemorated by the most adorable presidential monument ever.

A 24-hour vending machine restocked daily with homemade full-sized pecan pies.

The longest continuous lava tube in Oregon.

The second largest waterfall by volume in the U.S., Willamette Falls is outdone only by Niagara in the amount of water that is pushed northward.

Love, knishes, and best wishes from this legendary Lower East Side bakery.

Railroad came. People came. Railroad left. Town died.

A subterranean playground in an abandoned slate mine.

Prehistoric animals decorate this popular outdoor park.

An earthwork sculpture built by Robert Smithson in the Great Salt Lake only reemerges during drought.

The drama of nature in full effect in this Nevada State Park.

The only diamond mine in the world where you can keep what you find.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

Museum about life, death, and cannibalism in the Stone Age.

Abandoned power station once home to a squatter community, now being developed into an arts center.

The famed architect designed this Minnesota gas station of the future with a lookout tower.

The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.

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

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

A phenomenal assembly of pueblos in New Mexico is the most complete example of ancient ruins north of the border.

Hidden beneath a bridge, this waterfall is known for the large amounts of graffiti painted on its base.

An Oxford museum where visitors can have tea with the Mad Hatter and climb through the wardrobe to a fantasy land.