Places jamieherzing8 Wants to Go

This historic steamboat is scuttled just a few hundred feet from where it was built over a hundred years ago.

The park preserves a single, rare species of carnivorous plant that spells doom for unsuspecting insects.

On the Oregon coast is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

The eerie remnants of an ancient forest were hidden under the sand for centuries.

At the most northwestern point of the contiguous United States lies a trail leading through an ancient forest to stunning cliff-side vistas and massive oceanside caves.

A wondrous old library overlooking the nation's capital.

This semi-spooky remnant of an abandoned hotel provides fantastic views.

A scenic fort on the harbor protected Philadelphia from an attack that never came.

The ruins of Theodore Roosevelt's beloved ranch stand in a forgotten corner of a national park named after him.

This abandoned amusement park was built on a site with a dark history.

The remains of a failed attempt at medieval nerdery are hidden deep in the woods of Virginia.

An FDR-era tuberculosis sanatorium has stood abandoned in the suburbs of the U.S. capital for over 30 years.

The hidden ruins of a mill that is linked to an attempt to assassinate the vice president of the United States.

Nine of the very few concrete ships ever made in the U.S. are beautifully decaying off a Virginia pier.

An abandoned stretch of highway, deteriorating next to the operational one.

There is beauty and history in the ruins of this former company town.

The largest earthwork effigy in the world.

These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world’s largest coastal brick fortresses.

Once luxurious, these oceanfront beach homes have been left to succumb to the elements as the beach is slowly washed away.

One of the last active volcanoes on the Eastern seaboard.

A particularly creepy abandoned hospital that sparks interest for lovers of the supernatural.

A museum dedicated to the legend of Bigfoot in the Appalachian Mountains.

This stately mansion, built in 1787 by America's first Secretary of the Navy, is rumored to be one of the most haunted buildings in Washington, DC.

The site of the climactic scene from the classic horror film is now a historic landmark.