Places Ckorear512 Wants to Go

An abandoned early 20th-century gold mine in a spectacular setting overlooking Bridgeport Valley and the Sierra Nevada.

The only remaining hotel on the 1860s Henness Pass route over the Sierra Nevada is being restored.

A Wild West saloon that helped define a generation of psychedelic rock.

Back in the day everyone who was anyone played this historic western theater.

Beneath a Virginia City bar is the entrance to an abandoned gold mine.

What once housed a private club catering to Comstock Lode elite is now considered one of the West’s most haunted spaces.

This bright and bubbly Palm Springs hotel was the brainchild of an iconic drag queen.

One of the final grand railway depot hotel complexes is slowly being restored to its former glory.

This post-war motel embodies a little-known, Miami-born architectural style.

This sculpture is a cross between an observatory and an earth mound to honor the community's rich history.

Mexican food and folk art.

This once bustling boomtown hotel is now the hottest spot in Nevada for ghost hunters.

Stay at this storybook estate, featuring Sir Henry Hudson Kitson's masterpiece "Gingerbread House."

A little stop along the Texas highway where Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor, and James Dean stayed while shooting the 1955 film "Giant."

Kentucky's longest operating jail is now a spooky spot to spend the night.

When in Idaho, sleep in a giant potato.

These mid-century motels once housed the workers who built the Glen Canyon Dam.

An early-19th-century hotel with a past that is steeped in the Civil War.

Antiques and recycled art surround this cabin designed to resemble a 19th-century schoolhouse.

Built in 1927, this pink stucco hotel once hosted stars of Hollywood’s silent movie era. Now it's being brought back to life.

The oldest hotel in Nevada.

An abandoned Cold War missile radar site.

This historic roadhouse has many tales to tell of San Francisco's early history.

Sitting atop San Francisco's tallest hill, a cross honors the victims of the Armenian genocide.