This centuries-old hotel hides a network of secret cellars and passages once used by smugglers.

The remains of a former logging boom town, crumbled away in the forest.

An abandoned 19th-century hospital now swirling in ghost stories.

The century-old remains of an abandoned farm town in eastern Washington.

A nearly abandoned 19th-century town on the Palouse.

This former mining hub holds a surprising abundance of undisturbed relics from the Old West.

This dilapidated ship carcass covered in trees is a striking sight.

This Cold War missile launch site has been abandoned for 40 years.

Nuclear reactor created the plutonium used on Nagasaki.

This grove of ghostly cedars was killed in 1700 by an enormous tsunami, felt from the United States to Japan.

Four abandoned towers hidden above the Douglas fir forest in Washington.

Train debris from the deadliest avalanche in United States history can still be found in the ravine where so many perished.

The site of the Wellington avalanche, one of the America's worst railroad disasters.

A cave interior in the shape of the ancient rhinoceros, created by lava cooling around its carcass.

A surreal landscape where fanged rocks rise from the ground and the ocean feels like a great mystery.

Legend says that these tall basalt pillars are the petrified wives of a trickster god.

A fine, large-aperture telescope available for public use.

Site of the greatest known waterfall that ever existed.

Local legend has it that an old, decaying staircase outside this cemetery is haunted by dozens of ghosts.

This scenic gorge is named after one of the most famous Bigfoot attacks in pseudohistory.

Hundreds of hopeful gold miners came here to get rich, but only two years later the small town was deserted.

A tiny red pebble marks what may be the quietest outdoor spot in the United States.

Stroll through a wonderland of stupendous moss-covered trees.

Shoreline strewn with the remains of ghostly fallen trees.