Places Ckorear512 Wants to Go

This grinning pup statue is all that's left of what was once a ubiquitous Bay Area diner chain.

A relic from a forgotten bakery chain still spins atop a diner.

Outposts of this restaurant chain were shaped like jaunty chapeaus.

All that remains of the once-booming chain is a single orange-roofed restaurant.

Settled by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1859, this abandoned frontier town has appeared in several films.

This amazingly preserved Gold Rush town is a historian's dream.

Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.

This historic iron-working village is now a ghost town so immaculate that it looks as though it was recently built.

This eerily well-preserved coal town was saved from destruction by a Sean Connery movie.

A desert ghost town—occupied for only 12 years—was once home to more than 500 silver mines.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

See just what life was like in a 19th-century prospecting town.

The ghostly remains of what was once the world's richest copper mine.

A living snapshot of a different time in America is preserved and maintained by a community of volunteers.

A ghost town originally established and governed solely by Black Americans seeking a place of their own, free from discrimination.

This remote fort on the Yukon River is a vestige of the wild Alaska gold rush.

A mining town, now abandoned, was built in a canyon so narrow that the railroad ran right through the hotel lobby.

This former mining hub holds a surprising abundance of undisturbed relics from the Old West.

A lawless town deep in Death Valley was famous for its riches and death rate turned YouTube famous.

An abandoned town is hidden in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

This ramshackle ghost town is comprised of mining-era buildings collected from around the region.

Three plaques mark the spot where the "forgotten father of broadcasting" worked.

Austrian and Germans who died on British soil during World War I and II are buried here.

The longest cutting on the M62 contains some surprises—though it's best to leave the motorway to appreciate them.