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.

These fantastically named natural pools look like something out of a Scottish myth.

For two weeks every June, fireflies in the Smoky Mountains perform an astonishing light show.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

This abandoned subway station beneath the Waldorf-Astoria hotel is allegedly used to secretly transport presidents.

A one-of-a-kind collection of a unique medium.

A bizarre house filled with an astounding array of collections.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high power conical Tesla Coil.

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.

Medicinal spa created with the discharge from a geothermal energy plant.

This jaw-dropping 19th-century bridge uses its reflection to form what appears to be a perfect circle.

The mysterious, fantastical woodland inspiration for "The Lord of the Rings."

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

Bring your own cardboard to the slippery slopes of concrete hidden in a neighborhood park.

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

During prohibition, corrupt city officials ran drinking dens under the streets of Downtown Los Angeles.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

Remote ruins of a 2,400-year-old Iberian settlement.

The U.S. Air Force has an anti-satellite laser weapon.