Places Ky Thornley Wants to Go

Government testing at the asylum briefly explored using marijuana as a "truth serum" on Nazi prisoners of war.

A quiet, gothic haven nestled between Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill and Point Breeze neighborhoods.

This giant steer-skull edifice refuses to die.

Graffiti-covered ruins that were once part of a farm owned by a mental hospital.

This abandoned boat was left in place thanks to its rotting beauty.

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

A hillbilly theme park that proved so unpopular the land wouldn't even sell on eBay after it closed.

Despite repeated attempts to make it work, this former mining town is now nothing but dust and memories.

These World War I shooting range tunnels are now haunted halls of underground graffiti accessed through the roots of a tree.

The railroad tunnel nicknamed the "Bloody Pit" for taking the lives of hundreds during its construction.

On top of Gibbet Hill lie the ruins of a lavish turn-of-the-century estate that never quite came to be.

An eerily abandoned stone tower is all that remains of a demolished dam on Cape Fear River.

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

Beneath a Virginia City bar is the entrance to an abandoned gold mine.

An FDR-era tuberculosis sanatorium has stood abandoned in the suburbs of the U.S. capital for over 30 years.

This stunning gothic ruin was a casualty of the Indiana steel industry crash.

The macabre graffiti spectacle in a quarry in a Massachusetts forest reservation.

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

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

The ghostly remains of what was once the world's richest copper mine.

A massive forgotten storehouse from 1913 on the Brooklyn Waterfront has a spectacular view of Brooklyn.

An old abandoned mining town in The Adirondacks where Theodore Roosevelt first learned of the shooting of President William McKinley.

Where school buses go to die and be reborn as whimsical works of art.

From economic backbone of a community to deadly diving hole, these former stone quarries are now a park for rock climbers and graffiti artists.