Places artcr8 Wants to Go

A mountaintop space observatory that is certified dark.

This water tower commemorates the invention of the transistor on this site in 1947.

Only a few pieces remain of a grand 16th-century water clock that once announced the changing hours with the sound of bells, gongs, and drums.

A space-grade telescope mirror lies discarded in the shrubs.

Charles Babbage's proto-computer, painstakingly brought to life.

A clock designed to run with perfect accuracy for 10,000 years.

A bad omen turned symbol of good fortune now adorns a hidden palace in the quiet streets of Valencia's old town.

Picturesque and haunting, these 160-year-old stone ruins on top of a bluff are the only remains of a settler's legacy.

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

Enormous piles of historically significant stones, dumped by Congress in a forest, and abandoned for 60 years.

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

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

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

The deserted railroad town had a last gasp as a ghost town attraction before being abandoned for good.

Once the largest attraction in Rhode Island, this former amusement park is now a gorgeous coastal state park.

The location of Puerto Rico's first water bottling plant, thanks to a collaboration between Mother Nature and technology.

An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.

An enormous factory from the late 1800s sits abandoned on Cleveland eastside.

The remnants of an early American attempt at missile defense.

This road in the Great Smoky Mountains was supposed to assuage a displaced community, but ended up a $52 million dead end.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

The old Route 66 town straddling Texas and New Mexico died along with the Main Street of America.

Hidden in plain sight on the Hudson River is an abandoned train station where nature has taken over.

After sitting abandoned for decades, this historic mine is now the only publicly accessible chalk room and pillar mine in North America.