Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.

Hellam Township is reputed to feature seven remote gates, which when passed through in the right order, open an entrance to hell.

The feral felines of Roosevelt Island have a small army of allies and an abandoned hospital all to themselves.

A miniature rainforest is growing inside of a Midtown Manhattan office building.

Panorama exhibition hall in old silent theater with a beautiful backyard garden.

An abandoned facility that has become a place of ritualistic satanic worship, or so rumor has it.

The longest continuous lava tube in the continental U.S. offers 2.5 miles of dark explorations for the adventurous.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

Order scoops of pandan, lychee, and black sesame at this family-run institution.

A winding path built in secret on the edge of the continent.

A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."

Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

Hollowed out cedar log tubs set in an ancient towering forest.

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

This structure among the trees was the result of divine inspiration.

This abandoned amusement park was built on a site with a dark history.

An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.

This lab's maddening silence is good for business but bad for sanity.

This abandoned asylum was once a state of the art facility before devolving into one of the most deadly mental institutions in American history.