Places jbsimmons211 Wants to Go

An art instillation for the sake of "raising vibrations."

A historic dam made famous for its turbines and feature in a Hollywood classic.

This road in the Great Smoky Mountains was supposed to assuage a displaced community, but ended up a $52 million dead end.

The scant remains of this flooded historic village can be explored in one of the most remote areas of the Great Smokies.

Mysterious ancient boulder carved with petroglyphs in the mountains of Western North Carolina.

The remains of the iconic train crash from the movie 'The Fugitive' can still be found rusting along the Great Smoky Railroad.

An abandoned, decaying sculpture garden built by an eccentric physician in the 1920s now looks more like a forgotten cemetery.

On a dusty county road sit the ruins of a ghost town's abandoned church.

The 19th-century ruins hide deep in an overgrown forest.

This historic bridge has weathered fires and floods and still stands, now abandoned, where it has stood since 1874.

The Old Mill shown in the opening credits of “Gone With the Wind” is actually fairly new, and was never a mill at all.

This futuristically sylvan church is a glass-enclosed marvel of modern architecture.

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

A 19th-century Gothic, castle-like statehouse by the Mississippi River.

This creepy, yet oddly beautiful cemetery is home to one of the founding fathers of Lake Charles.

A serene temple with stunning stained glass hides in downtown Dallas.

A "Texanic" (gigantic Texas) collection of Art Deco architecture at Dallas' historic Fair Park.

Once the foundation for a mansion, these ruins now offer amazing panoramic coastal views.

Costa Rican accommodation resembles a crash site, but with a nice balcony.

Bring your own cardboard to the slippery slopes of concrete hidden in a neighborhood park.

The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.

A Christian-themed amusement park and complex rocked by scandals.

"Not too many people can say they've had a nuclear bomb dropped on them, not too many would want to." — Walter Gregg.

The oldest bridge in South Carolina may have been designed by the same man who created the Washington Monument.