Places kyrstyn03 Wants to Go

This settlement on the original Transcontinental Railroad began by harvesting timber, but transitioned to a forgotten 19th-century industry: harvesting ice.

Bits and pieces from the ill-fated Donner Party's winter cabins.

Law-protected wreckage serves as a peculiar memorial for an almost forgotten World War II tragedy.

An abandoned castle owned and ignored by Masons carries a cursed history.

The lost town of Neversink, sunk by New York City.

An urban forest overtakes what was the greatest failure of utopic urban housing.

A 6-mile-long lake created by an apocalyptic seismic event and the deadly chain reaction that ensued.

This sinkhole was created by a tragic industrial accident and continues to ravage the surrounding landscape.

This cheerfully-named branch of the Chicago River is the fetid result of years of blood, entrails, and meatpacking waste.

Once swallowed by flood waters, this village has emerged as an eerie shadow of its former self.

This memorial marks the devastating day that Texas City was destroyed in a daisy chain of exploding ships.

This unassuming museum's slogan translates to “there is a limit of sadness, anxiety has no limits."

You could be standing at the site of one of D.C.'s most fatal tragedies and not even know it.

A massive cave complex boasts some of the clearest water (and most charming bats) in the world.

A disconnected rotary phone for "calling" lost loved ones offered a unique way of dealing with grief in disaster-stricken Japan.

One of the most poignant ruins of the Chornobyl nuclear disaster, the local football team's stadium has been quickly reclaimed by nature.

The site of the Wellington avalanche, one of the America's worst railroad disasters.

This alley in downtown Chicago held the bodies of over 600 people after the fateful Iroquois Theatre fire.

The last planned Soviet city was built for the former residents of Prypiat after the Chornobyl disaster.

One of the last remnants of the Bessemer process that revolutionized steel production during the industrial age.

Seemingly straight out of a fairy tale, a steel chair sits on a tiny island only accessible by stepping stones.

It's known as the "Full Monty school" thanks to its role in the beloved British comedy film.

This commercial and retail center was crafted from walled military barracks.

Three memorials honor the victims of the worst sports stadium disaster in Britain.