Places Jarod Wants to Go

This abandoned psychiatric hospital once housed more than 4,000 patients in the middle of a quaint New England town.

A once grand hotel is being retaken by the wilderness it once capitalized on.

What was once a trend-setting, phrase-coining icon of architectural splendor is now a rotting, forgotten hulk.

This once luxurious Catskills resort is now a haunting ruin.

An abandoned castle owned and ignored by Masons carries a cursed history.

These beautiful ruins deep in the Pennsylvania woods are thought to have been a ski lodge or a speakeasy, but no one really knows.

Tucked behind New Jersey's abandoned Gingerbread Castle lie the eerie ruins of a once-flourishing paper mill.

A winding, cliffside stretch of road overlooking the Delaware River.

This mouldering abandoned mental hospital was once a center for progressive healing.

This abandoned factory on the Hudson River once churned out a million bricks a week.

Collapsing castle on the Hudson river was once the storage site of military surplus business.

In upstate New York, gorgeous waterfalls and a watermill are slowly being reclaimed by nature.

This lush forest valley was once mined for lumber to the extent that it was once nicknamed "The Pennsylvania Desert."

A train station that was abandoned by the coal industry and converted into a cocktail bar. Now it’s home to the local visitor bureau.

An abandoned asylum where patients have been forgotten but their possessions remain.

Home on the Hillside, and home of the first breakfast cereal.

An abandoned Victorian-era amusement park is rusting away amidst luxury houses.

Glass and concrete building designed by Albert Kahn.

The concrete shell of an industry giant remains as a playground for graffiti artists, auto scrappers, and paintball warriors.

An abandoned stretch of highway, deteriorating next to the operational one.

The remains of a paranoid inventor's hidden workshop lie in beautiful ruins amidst a Canadian park.

A Canadian POW for German soldiers during WWII where prisoners hatched an elaborate escape plan.