The wooden airship was the largest flying boat ever built.

No one knows how this Pacific Northwest spruce tree came to have so many trunks.

A massive sea stack famous for its appearance in The Goonies.

Featuring a casually threatening atmosphere along with dessert and coffee to die for.

The World's First 24 Hour Coin-Operated Art Gallery!! Plastic, Styrofoam, and Elvis--If you can't get rid of it, you might as well worship it!!

Easily overlooked in favor of the wineries that dot the region, this blast from the past is equally worth the visit.

Locals often dress this effigy of Traverse City's founder in festive outfits.

This national park on the shore of Lake Michigan features remarkable dunes that lie at the heart of a Chippewa legend.

The concrete shell of an industry giant remains as a playground for graffiti artists, auto scrappers, and paintball warriors.

This secluded aqua waterfall in the Grand Canyon is the perfect swimming hole, and the Havasupai tribe's fiercely protected natural wonder.

The hidden "ballroom" under a mansion lake was built by a criminal who ate a cyanide pill during his trial.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

The ghost town left by the worst nuclear disaster of all time is being taken over by nature and urban explorers.

An old vending machine serves up unpredictable beverages from its seemingly magical insides.

This faux-seedy Japanese arcade is made up to look like a maze of alleys straight out of a cyberpunk dystopia.

World's first "penitentiary," meant to be humane, drove men insane.

A magical place that lets you play in and explore the world of Studio Ghibli.

An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.

This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.

A beautiful and abandoned New York subway station from 1904, complete with chandelier.

Clusters of abandoned buildings hint at the facility's 144-year history with psychiatric health.

Turnip-shaped island just off the Michigan shore in Lake Huron.

Small, privately owned island divided between Michigan and Ohio with abandoned vacation homes and a derelict lighthouse.

The remains of an abandoned dinosaur theme park litter the woods just off the highway.