Places Ian Grafmuller Wants to Go

The man who first patented the Ouija board rests in peace beneath a headstone that playfully reflects that achievement.

This former fire tower found new life as a communications hub complete with a scenic overlook.

An abandoned coal mine reached by a steep hike.

This icon of the Atomic Age now lays dormant.

Also known as the Founding Church of Scientology.

Standing for over 200 years, the abandoned home of a Revolutionary War hero and later a succession of prison superintendents.

A decaying garage hidden amid the dense forest is all that remains of a once-prosperous dairy farm.

This abandoned Victorian-style house was built in 1884.

Dogs, cats, horses, monkeys, frogs, and fish are laid to rest at the second-oldest pet cemetery in the U.S.

The shelves in the back of this thrift store are devoted to saving, not selling, retro tech.

A tiny nondenominational church harkens back to the days of the first homesteaders in the region.

This now-abandoned outcrop is an important Native American spiritual site, overtaken by European settlers and mining pollution.

The decaying ruins of a failed mining company’s water diversion project cling to the side of a desert canyon.

An innovative local park built from an abandoned sewage treatment plant.

The remnants of the base where US Army troops learned how to fight in extreme conditions.

The site of a defunct mill, that once supplied marble for the construction of the Lincoln Memorial.

Paleoamericans built these ancient walls high in the Colorado Rockies as part of an extensive hunting system.

A coal fire has been burning underground here since 1896.

The remains of a World War II-era Japanese American internment camp dot a windswept Colorado hill.

Toss a Frisbee through the ruins of this Colorado gold mining town.

The remains of an early 1900s dude ranch that operated until the 1970s.

These decaying bridges 1,000 feet high are a reminder of the skill it took to cross the Colorado Rockies by rail.

At one time this small mining village was the highest town in America but now it sits abandoned while the mine churns on.

The remains of the dam that unleashed a 15-foot wall of water on Denver.