Places Ky Thornley Wants to Go

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

Once America’s most beautiful army base, this abandoned military fort on the coast of Monterey Bay has been left to the elements.

This forgotten building was one of the few Philadelphia-area breweries to survive Prohibition.

A remarkable time capsule of American manufacturing deep in Maryland coal country.

All that remains of this abandoned coal town is a beautiful, haunting cemetery.

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

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

One-of-a-kind preserved ruins of an abandoned 1880s church in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood.

This abandoned, windowless concrete block is one of the strangest buildings in Tulsa.

These abandoned grain silos and tunnels are an urban exploration dream.

The ruins of an abandoned 18th-century town that is slowly being reclaimed by the forest.

This ghost town houses the remains of Alabama's old state capital.

An abandoned underground bunker not far from downtown New Orleans.

In 1967, murder and mayhem disrupted the tranquility along this quiet stretch of Old Route 66.

There is beauty and history in the ruins of this former company town.

This abandoned mine and power plant was built atop land once given to Revolutionary War soldiers.

Two gems of Beaux Arts architecture that have been sitting vacant for years.

A nearly abandoned 19th-century town on the Palouse.

This former mining hub holds a surprising abundance of undisturbed relics from the Old West.

The century-old remains of an abandoned farm town in eastern Washington.

This schoolhouse for Black American children is one of the oldest remaining in southeastern Ohio.

The headquarters of a pioneering cast iron and cast aluminum cookware company is in ruins, but still standing.

A 19th century hat factory still stands as a crumbling ruin in upstate New York.

This public space is speckled with the eerie remnants of a defunct amusement park.