Places helitua Wants to Go

Once the product of an inexplicable gold strike, this ghost town is now home to one man and his love of classic machines.

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

This underwater old Texas hill town only resurfaces during harsh drought.

"A hideous albatross in the Hudson River Valley."

One of the best absinthe distilleries in the United States.

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

An eerie and beautiful group of columns mark the site of a grand mansion lost to time and fire.

Despite repeated attempts to make it work, this former mining town is now nothing but dust and memories.

Instruments, apparatus, and rare books all relating to chemistry and its related sciences.

This abandoned psychiatric hospital once housed more than 4,000 patients in the middle of a quaint New England town.

This ghost town was once a cult-like religious utopian settlement.

Built by prisoners of war, the largest small-scale model ever built includes eight miles of tiny streams that now sit abandoned.

An abandoned 1920s school with a mysterious history.

Barely visible foundations remain where Stow Lake’s “observatory” once welcomed visitors.

Home of Philip Johnson, one of the 20th century's most influential architects.

Is this the most Portland place ever?

What remains of the summer palace of King Kamehameha III.

What was once the second largest steel mill in the US is now a sprawling complex of modern ruins.

The Ozarks' strangest dwelling.

A former copper mine which became a truly unsuccessful prison.

Secret gardens just a few miles from downtown Atlanta.

One of the smallest towns in the United States.

This lovely university observatory continues to sit abandoned since its potential savior was sent to jail for fraud.

This abandoned sea fort has become an accidental bird sanctuary.