Places Ky Thornley Wants to Go

Built by the inventor of the radio, this abandoned hotel has housed early radio employees, military men, and a dangerous cult.

The scene of one of the darkest moments in American labor history has been left essentially untouched since the tragedy.

The remains of one of America's first radiation testing grounds still rest ominously in a Georgia forest.

The "World's Largest Underground Business Complex," a 55,000,000-square-foot city underneath Missouri.

Another of California's unused Cold War missile defense complexes has become a graffiti gallery.

The final remnant of the Arkansas zinc industry is this historically protected ghost town.

One of many gator theme parks, abandoned in the sugar fields of South Florida.

The remains of a community that was forced to move for a dam that never materialized still rot in this Pennsylvania park.

An abandoned, unfinished mansion on grounds strewn with lava rocks.

Despite violent work crews and massive delays this abandoned canal tunnel was built to last into the modern day.

The ruins of a Massachusetts prison farm can still be found crumbling the woods of a state park.

This old mining town, deep in the California desert, has a year-round population of one.

A ruined mansion hidden in the woods of the Hudson Valley, home of a tragically doomed romance.

Mining town from the late 1890s, once home to Calamity Jane.

This amazingly preserved Gold Rush town is a historian's dream.

A little-known subterranean street runs under some of the best-known buildings in Chicago's River North.

Quirky castle designed by the American actor best known for portraying Sherlock Holmes on stage.

An abandoned theme park with a strange and tumultuous past.

Hundreds of hopeful gold miners came here to get rich, but only two years later the small town was deserted.

One of the world's largest automobile junkyards is a unique landscape of metal and moss.

The end of the 4 Line is also the end of the line for 300,000 souls in one of NYC's most illustrious cemeteries.

This tiny New Jersey village has lived many lives but seems determined to remain a ghost town.

This once luxurious Catskills resort is now a haunting ruin.

Silver in the hills led to the speedy creation of this boom town and a lack of it saw the town abandoned nearly as quickly.