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DesolationDave

Explorer, scuba diver, maker, geek, game developer, web developer, that guy pretending to be Indiana Jones inside a blanket fort.
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I have been to 27 places and want to visit 53 more!

CN Tower: The Tallest Metal Staircase on Earth

Toronto, Canada
The main concourse. (Wikimedia Commons)

Buffalo Central Terminal

Buffalo, New York

Pirate Soul Museum

Key West, Florida
Spruce Tree House - March 2010

Mesa Verde National Park

Colorado
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Camp Hero

Montauk, New York

Copp's Hill Burying Ground

Boston, Massachusetts

Kennecott Utah Copper - Bingham Canyon Mine

Bingham Canyon, Utah

Centralia

Centralia, Pennsylvania

The Conch Republic

Key West, Florida

Columbia Icefield

Jasper, Canada

Michigan Theatre

Detroit, Michigan

Opus 40

Saugerties

Banff Springs Hotel

Banff, Canada

Howe Caverns

Howes Cave, New York

Faneuil Hall

Boston, Massachusetts

Old North Church

Boston, Massachusetts

Boston's First Street

Boston, Massachusetts
Mound-like natural formations in the Cheltenham Badlands (Flickr/Aubrey Arenas)

Cheltenham Badlands

Caledon, Canada
Tourists flock to the buoy (Flickr/Turtle43)

Southernmost Point of the USA

Key West, Florida
The descent of the snake god

Pyramid of Kukulcan at Chich'en Itza

Cancun, Mexico

The Cemetery of the Danvers Hospital for the Criminally Insane

Danvers, Massachusetts

Lower Bay Station

Toronto, Canada
The taxidermed elephant head that's on display in the main room.

The George Eastman House

Rochester, NY
The derelict interior of Michigan Central Station.

Michigan Central Station

Detroit, Michigan
Paul Revere House from the street

The Paul Revere House

Boston, Massachusettes
Change ringing patterns listed on an ancient - but still applicable - cheat sheet

Bell Ringing Chamber at Old North Church

Boston, Massachusetts
This early illustration reflects the extreme interest and reaction to the massacre by the colonists

Site of the Boston Massacre

Boston, Massachusetts
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(Flickr/Sabionline)

Canfranc International Railway Station

Spain

Grotta Gigante

Trieste, Italy
Cernobyl Duga-3 Receiver ( Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Woodpecker_array.jpg )

Chernobyl's Duga-3 or "Woodpecker" Receiver

Chernobyl, Ukraine
Great Blue Hole

Great Blue Hole

Belize

Knox County Poorhouse

Bangs, Ohio

Beelitz Heilstätten

Brandenburg, Germany
Devil's Kettle. (derusha/Flickr)

Devil's Kettle

Grand Marais, Minnesota

Dean's Blue Hole

Bahamas

Chinese Pyramids of Xian

Xi'an, China
50-foot waterfalls flow into Hamilton Pool, adding to the natural spring during the wet season.

Hamilton Pool

Austin, Texas
The Basque's in Red Bay.

Red Bay, Labrador.

Red Bay, Canada
Cavernous exploration requires specialized equipment and highly skilled divers

Subsurface Bahamian Caves

Andros I, Bahamas

Balestrino Ghost Village

Balestrino, Italy
(Justus Hayes/Shoes on Wires/shoesonwires.com/Flickr)

Riverview Hospital

Coquitlam, Canada

Mount Thor

Baffin Island, Canada
(Flickr/DrJohnBullas)

Diavik Diamond Mine

North Slave Region, Canada

Campanile di Curon

Italy

Guoliang Tunnel

Guoliang , China
Modern view of the Cape Royds Hut.

Shackleton's Antarctic Hut

Cape Royds, Antarctica

Gunkanjima Island

Nagasaki, Japan

Devil's Island

French Guiana

Wreck of the Titanic

Atlantic Ocean
USS Iowa - now relocated to LA

Suisun Bay Ghost Fleet

Benecia, California
Ornate entrance to the building.

Belle Isle Aquarium

Detroit, Michigan

Socotra Island

Socotra, Yemen
Army sea forts

Maunsell Army Sea Forts

Whitsable, England

Chalk Sound Blue Hole

Turks and Caicos Islands
(Wikimedia Commons)

Shilin Stone Forest

China

The Winchester Mystery House

San Jose, California
Bannerman's Castle

Bannerman's Castle

Newburgh, New York
The excavated pit. (Creative Commons)

Oak Island Money Pit

Oak Island, Canada

Eastern State Penitentiary

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Chittagong Ship-breaking Yards

Chittagong, Bangladesh
A street in the close.

Mary King's Close

Edinburgh, Scotland
Remains of Riverside Hospital on North Brother Island

North Brother Island

New York City, New York

Muromtzevo Castle

Russia

Musee Mecanique

San Francisco, California
Siberian entertainment for miners' children (Flickr/Магадан)

Kadykchan

Kadykchan, Russia

Vortex Spring

Ponce de Leon, Florida
One of many fishing ships now without fish

Aral Sea

Aralsk, Kazakhstan
Kayakoy, Turkey

Abandoned Village of Kayakoy

Kayakoy, Turkey
Land Entrance to Base

Decommissioned Soviet Sub Base

Balaclava, Ukraine
Divers in Chuuk Lagoon.

Ghost Fleet of Truk Lagoon

Palau
A view of the lighthouse. (Wikimedia Commons)

Alcatraz Island - La Isla de los Alcatraces

San Francisco, California

North Yungas Road

Bolivia
A diver passes by rock formations (WikiCommons)

Atlit Yam

Atlit, Israel

South Georgia

South Georgia, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

The Nitrate Towns of Chile

Chile
The center square of Pripyat, once home for 50,000 people. After 22 years of neglect, nature has started to seep through the concrete

Chernobyl's Ghost Cities

Chernobyl, Ukraine
The crumbling facade of Bokor Hill Station (Flickr/Sven & Moniek)

Bokor Hill Station

Cambodia

Jellyfish Lake

Rock Islands, Palau

The Stonework of Machu Picchu

Urubamba Valley, Peru

5 Beekman Street

New York, New York
I have been to 27 places and want to visit 53 more!
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