Places helitua Wants to Go

A turn-of-the-century architectural marvel built on healing mineral springs and salt licks.

This folk art compound was built by a fortune teller on the advice of three people from the future.

"I did this all while you were watching TV."

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

Florida castle built with aluminum printing plates.

Fittingly, America's museum of architecture is itself a magnificently designed old building.

Former farm staffed by mental patients is now a public park.

This abandoned Poconos resort is haunted by a history of kitschy romance and a violent fugitive.

The walkable ruins of an 19th century hotel, destroyed in a horse cremation gone wrong.

Former hotel turned into haunted playground.

Once a bastion of its community, this gothic cathedral now stands as a haunting ruin.

This intricate Hindu temple is the largest of its kind outside of India itself and was constructed like a giant puzzle.

This Colorado hiking trail provides a small gold mine of abandoned gold mines.

The location along the shores of the Great Salt Lake of what was once called, "The Coney Island of the West", now sits barren due to arson and time.

An urban laboratory.

This high point in the Great Smoky Mountains is said to be home to the chief of all bears.

What was once one of the country's largest confectionary plants is now an abandoned ruin, but is still pretty sweet.

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

A stunning, abandoned limestone quarry in southern Indiana provided the stone to erect the Empire State Building.

The superstar of Cold War nuclear bunkers has been featured in countless films but is now barely operational.

An institution that preserves the history of institutionalization.

Prison made famous by The Shawshank Redemption has been out of commission since 1990.

Once an ambitious nature spa, these forest ruins now provide a serene monument to failure.

Railroad came. People came. Railroad left. Town died.