Places Ky Thornley Wants to Go

Once the largest public hospital for the mentally ill was also surrounded by controversy.

This abandoned mine offers a glimpse at what life was like for those who came to Alaska seeking Gold Rush riches.

Once the central jail for Los Angeles, this building housed inmates like Al Capone, those arrested from the Zoot Suit and Watts Riots, and individuals imprisoned for their sexuality.

This enormous abandoned factory is now a makeshift graffiti gallery.

A once-booming railroad left abandoned next to the Quinnipiac River marshes now intersects with a hiking trail.

An abandoned Victorian-era mill in the middle of modern Manchester.

An abandoned observatory in the middle of the Illinois prairie.

Once a thriving business district, this former shopping area is now an urban ghost town in the heart of the city.

The remnants of a luxurious resort that saw its peak in the 1970s and 1980s has been abandoned since 2009, leaving behind the wreckage of both the hotel and a beautiful ice skating rink.

Take a self-guided tour through one of Colorado's most elevated mining districts.

The only surviving building of historic West Boylston, which was flooded to create the Wachusett Reservoir.

Hidden in this little-known town stands a piece of agriculture history.

The ruins of an 18th-century mansion that was once named "Mistake" by the man who had it built.

Built by an accountant with a dream of running a grand resort, this estate has sat vacant for over half a century.

One of the few Cold War-era bases with many of its original structures still standing.

Designed by famed 20th-century architect Cass Gilbert, the future of this abandoned 1908 rail station is currently in limbo.

What was once a summer home next to a waterfall has now become littered with graffiti and children in swimsuits.

Historic seaside park featuring explorable, abandoned military structures.

After the nearby mercury mine shut down, this town was abandoned and declared a Superfund site.

A century-old miner's quarters turned mansion.

A royal relic from the time that gambling was accidentally made legal in South Carolina.

Nature (and graffiti) reclaim this old waterworks that has been surrounded by a bike path and network of walking trails.

An ornate abandoned schoolhouse hidden in the woods near a decaying mill town.

Spend the night in this former asylum for the incurably insane, which claims to be one of the most haunted places in the United States.