Places From the Backwoods Wants to Go

A derelict bit of transportation infrastructure hidden in the woods.

The remains of a British railway rusting in the jungle mist of a Brazilian mountainside.

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

A partial tunnel blasted into a steep ridge is all that remains of a failed railway across Arizona.

This overgrown mountain village has been abandoned for nearly a century.

An old asylum graveyard that's been abandoned for half a century attracts those seeking a dark thrill.

The Jewish section of the famous Boothill Graveyard was abandoned for nearly 100 years.

A desert settlement founded and later abandoned by Hawaiian members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Utah's Skull Valley.

An abandoned asylum where patients have been forgotten but their possessions remain.

A former mental hospital founded in the 1930s by a eugenicist who advocated for the forced sterilization of patients.

A perfectly preserved abandoned criminal asylum in South Australia.

At Macon’s oldest cemetery two members of Allman Brothers are buried side by side.

An odd and heartwarming stone marker enshrines the moment a community saved a farmer's pig that fell in a well.

Clusters of abandoned buildings hint at the facility's 144-year history with psychiatric health.

One of the largest-ever mental hospitals now sits abandoned, surrounded by 25,000 unmarked graves.

The remains of what was once the world's steepest passenger funicular.

Reforestation in action is the main attraction in this abandoned quarry.

The abandoned husk of a mental institution that failed to save a Jazz Age icon still sits nearly unchanged.

Collapsing castle on the Hudson river was once the storage site of military surplus business.

A crumbling ghost town with prime views of the dam that doomed it.

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

A ruined mansion hidden in the woods of the Hudson Valley, home of a tragically doomed romance.

Site of the graveyard vine believed to be a curse on a family from the 1800s.

A treasure trove of rare and fine fabrics from around the world.