Places Lonecourier Wants to Go

They call this long foot bridge a swinging bridge, but really it's the bouncing you have to watch out for.

Crumbling ruins mark the site of a couple's grisly murder in the woods.

Ruins of a Carnegie family mansion on Cumberland Island.

Fake rail crossings mark the site of an influential doctor's demise.

Experience the "opulence, grace, and grandeur of Eureka's most famous Victorian Inn."

Machinery left over from California's once thriving mercury industry now attracts artists and explorers.

The remnants of a failed socialist commune can still be found just off a California highway.

'Cause the fence start shaking, the earth was quaking.

A glimpse into the lives of the the Miwok and Paiute people in Yosemite National Park.

A historic hotel in an old California railroad town with a rowdy reputation.

Despite being a perfectly pleasant place to be, Loyalton can't seem to attract any visitors.

This abandoned motel doesn't welcome guests anymore, but decay and a creepy atmosphere still call it home.

Radioactivity still cause for concern at this urban explorer's paradise.

San Francisco's oldest operating hotel, with a Victorian atmosphere and a "haunted" fourth floor.

Oldest building in California still in use.

Abandoned Air Force base that has fallen into disrepair.

Version of the French Riviera destroyed by the sea.

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

Once a place of peaceful repose, this sanitarium now faces an uncertain future.

Smooth basaltic rocks tell a tale of ancient glacial waterfalls.

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

Where there's quartz, there must be gold. Thus is the story of the mines of Julian, and the titillating times of the Gold Rush.

The ruins of the castle that chemicals built.

Commonly referred to as the most photographed Victorian home in the United States.