A well-preserved Ancestral Puebloan ruin tucked beneath a desert cliff.

A futuristic temple of light uses prisms and rainbows to create an atmosphere of peace.

Prison made famous by The Shawshank Redemption has been out of commission since 1990.

A medieval castle in the middle of rural Texas.

This beloved Baltimore spot features caged dolls, a giant Pez collection, and many, many mannequins.

This Colorado hiking trail provides a small gold mine of abandoned gold mines.

This rare example of a "tidefall" is a spectacular drop from the cliffs down onto the beach.

These Pre-Columbian petroglyphs contain representations of birds, deer, hunters, and even some early Native flute players.

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.

In a city filled with Frank Gehry buildings, one stands out as one of the architect's weirder works.

A natural gas leak provides a flickering flame beneath a waterfall.

A hidden beach at the end of a tunnel of mangrove trees.

Fantastic collection celebrating the final send-off.

A once grand hotel is being retaken by the wilderness it once capitalized on.

The highest point in Tennessee, Clingmans Dome bears witness to the ravages of one type of insect.

A collection of haunted objects and macabre oddities under one roof.

The secret city built by the Manhattan Project.

A multi-storied adobe complex has been inhabited for more than a thousand years.

San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.

The man who first patented the Ouija board rests in peace beneath a headstone that playfully reflects that achievement.

An architect in Aspen used psychedelics as his muse while building this mushroom masterpiece.

Paranormal investigators claim this abandoned asylum is the most haunted spot in the eastern U.S.

These aggressively sustainable art homes look like something out of 1970's science fiction.

The taxidermied remains of Charles Dickens' pet raven, which helped inspire one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poems.