Places jakechouston Wants to Go

An abandoned theme park with a strange and tumultuous past.

Once standing on solid ground, this slender beacon is a victim of the very shoreline it was charged with announcing.

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

Colin Stokes "got a bit carried away" and built a castle that looks like something out of Tolkien.

This former abandoned hospital, a complex of stunning 19th century buildings, once housed 2,000 psychiatric patients.

An eight-sided home built during a brief octagon craze in the 1850s.

Crumbling ruins of the thermal baths that once attracted royals and aristocrats from throughout Europe.

During WWII the U.S. Navy conducted primitive drone strikes on this Lake Michigan lighthouse.

A recently abandoned psych ward at the end of Sanatorium Road.

The decaying remains of a 1960s mechanical wonderland that never officially closed.

The luxurious circular mansion built for a Communist leader now lies abandoned.

What happened to the three lighthouse keepers who vanished from this place remains a mystery over a century later.

The abandoned ruins of America's first private zoo are open for exploration in the Catskills.

The deserted pirate-themed restaurant still entices explorers.

Behind an abandoned storefront is an example of pioneering 1930s gas station architecture.

A former bank seized as a sniper vantage point during the Bosnian War is now a secret graffiti art gallery.

The abandoned medieval theme park was meant to be the "Disneyland of the Philippines."

Clusters of abandoned buildings hint at the facility's 144-year history with psychiatric health.

An eerie, decaying ghost town destined to fade into the forest.

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

An abandoned network of military bunkers and tunnels open for anyone willing to descend into the darkness.

Enchanting gardens surround a derelict mansion, all hidden in plain sight behind a stone wall.

The highest lighthouse in Scotland shines from an abandoned island.

The Belgian royal family's private depot now stands abandoned and forgotten alongside the tracks.