Places Lonecourier Wants to Go

The ghost town left by the worst nuclear disaster of all time is being taken over by nature and urban explorers.

A living snapshot of a different time in America is preserved and maintained by a community of volunteers.

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

The best Tiki bar in Las Vegas.

An 1870s ranch for pioneers, rodeo stars, and divorcees was abandoned and left for dead, until the city reopened it for exploration.

An abandoned railroad tunnel forgotten by time awaits inquisitive hikers.

The perfectly named cave drop is the deepest in the continental United States, almost matching the height of Seattle’s Space Needle.

A colorful square marks the heart of the city's LGBTQ community.

Georgia's first brewery is also one of its oldest surviving buildings.

This small cemetery is all that remains of Atlanta's first Black communities.

Interactive modern and vintage submarine equipment, World War II relics, and submarine attire.

Constant erosion has created a surreal landscape of bleached and preserved fallen trees.

Mai Tais and Navy Grog served up in one of the original tiki bars.

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

Developers built a Walmart around one family's plot and constructed a mausoleum in the parking lot.

These ancient ritual mounds are our best window into the culture of the ancient Mississippians.

One of Savannah's oldest and most haunted cemeteries, featuring graves desecrated by Sherman's Union Army.

A curious whirlpool formation supposedly capable of entangling or engulfing branches, tree trunks, or whole rafts full of hapless tourists.

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

Healing Springs that once ran red with soldiers' blood.

One of the largest-ever mental hospitals now sits abandoned, surrounded by 25,000 unmarked graves.

The ruins of a cotton mill that was burned in the Civil War are still hidden in a Georgia forest.

Tour the sci-fi-esque reality of governmental disease management.

Bad farming practices caused this unnatural natural wonder.