Places helitua Wants to Go

An iconic steel and chrome diner from the 1940s left empty for nearly 20 years is in danger of being demolished.

An ornate Detroit church, left empty and ravaged by time.

The remains of a chapel created for convenience.

Half-sized replica of the Leaning Tower of Pisa built to honor Galileo.

Near-constant high winds deform the trees on Spruce Knob, the highest point in West Virginia.

Enormous small-business mecca in the Midwest, serving dozens of artists.

This abandoned school has had many lives since the early 1900s, and all of them doomed.

A spooky and decrepit mental health facility is slowly being replaced with newer digs.

See just what life was like in a 19th-century prospecting town.

Funded by John D. Rockefeller, this is one of the earliest, and most beautiful, shopping arcades in America.

A mine fire has been burning under the deserted town since 1962, but this church is still going strong.

Captain John Smith thought these cliffs were amazing in 1608 but sharks thought so 20 million years before him.

A former gold rush boomtown has managed to stay in business for over 100 ramshackle years.

This empty Detroit high school was too expensive to maintain or destroy.

Granite outcropping that the state's tourism bureau doesn't promote because of its delicate ecosystem.

Home to the Amorphophallus titanum "Corpse Flower," which is among the largest flowers in the world and also smells powerfully of rotting flesh when in bloom.

The U.S. Supreme Court's secret Cold War relocation facility in the mountains of North Carolina.

"Iron Age" creatures fill this huckster's rusted metal sculpture garden.

A shady solar power system that couldn't hold up to the harsh desert conditions.

Tour the luxe "glass cage" that inspired and unnerved the architecture world upon its debut.

These disused steel furnaces are now haunting ruins that may one day be a national park.

The remains of this early 20th century refinery loom on a mountainside like a graffiti-covered fortress.

The cruel trial of a 13-year-old boy inspired the creation of this now abandoned reformatory.

This former Mormon settlement is reemerging from the receding waters of Lake Mead.