This icon of the Atomic Age now lays dormant.

This electric green sulphur lake in New Zealand looks like a cartoonish radioactive dump site.

An unusual and powerful memorial in which earthquake victims are remembered by empty white chairs.

An ode to the history of telephones inside a telephone building.

Eons ago, a rushing lava river formed this pristine passage through solid rock.

Here, visitors can swing with the waves of the Pacific Ocean.

New Zealand's oldest prison holds a dark history and the scars of a deadly earthquake.

This modern New Zealand attraction honors ancient forms of astronomy and scientific understanding.

An eerily charming collection of salvaged buildings and curios grown out of a family scrap business.

The explorer Captain Cook may have named it White Island, but the Maori call it Te Puia o Whakaari – The Dramatic Volcano.

These phallic stone spires once served as Tolkien's Paths of the Dead.

A bunker "with enough U.S. currency to replenish the cash supply east of the Mississippi" in the event of nuclear war now protects nitrate film.

Developed by focused shutterbugs, this museum exposes visitors to more than 6,000 different cameras.

A Mysterious Masonic tomb in San Luis Obispo.

A deserted hodgepodge of experimental structures designed by nearby university students.

This trio of Dominican cave lakes comprise a colorful biosphere of natural life.

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

A new kind of theme park for adults off the Las Vegas Strip.

This sculpture gallery is home to magnificent beasts made of scrap metal and found objects.

Abandoned businesses, homes, and rusted cars are all that remains of this stopover town.

Hidden behind Lincoln's head is a 70-foot-long chamber containing enamel plates documenting American history, sealed in a teakwood box in a titanium vault.

The ravine where Jesse James supposedly performed an impossible jump to evade capture.

One of America’s oldest and spookiest hotels, thanks to the residency of ghosts, dead presidents, and Alfred Hitchcock.

The lowest point in South Dakota and the source of the Minnesota River.