Places helitua Wants to Go

This abandoned Civil War fortress is slowly being swallowed by the waters of Lake Borgne.

Once defending the city of New Orleans from invasion by sea, this fort faces an uncertain future.

The crumbling remains of a 19th century fortess.

A 200-year-old building in the French Quarter that was to be Napoleon's home in the New World.

Despite the ever pressing encroachment of urban sprawl this grand New Orleans manse still stands.

A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

Giant instrument-shaped home in Fayetteville, Georgia.

The remains of one of America's first radiation testing grounds still rest ominously in a Georgia forest.

The ruins of a cotton mill that was burned in the Civil War are still hidden in a Georgia forest.

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

An underground magnet for ever-changing street art.

Crumbling ruins mark the site of a couple's grisly murder in the woods.

Ruins of a Carnegie family mansion on Cumberland Island.

The beauty of urban decay, hiding some dark secrets.

These crumbling foundations are all that remain of the once-stately 1840s manor that gave the town of Bradenton its name.

It turns out that a hurricane-prone beach is probably not the best place to house wild animals.

The ruins of a once-thriving sugarcane plantation that was burned in the Second Seminole War.

Two men built this castle on the Florida coast as an artistic “landscape sculpture.”

The ruins of a once massive plantation are now a private residence hidden in the Florida wilderness.

The abandoned bathhouse is all that remains of the hot springs considered Florida's original tourist attraction.

The haunting remains of a failed housing development can still be found behind the big box stores that were to anchor them.

The ruins of a Florida miracle spring resort make it seem like a wonder that this was ever a health spa.

A swamp that was the site of prehistoric water burials also managed to preserve its corpses for millennia.