Places MrPExplores Wants to Go

These rural ruins are of a Midwestern hotel that was once an elegant spa for the wealthy, then a gangster’s hideaway, and finally a haunted retreat.

A once-thriving hotel from the Old West now sits abandoned, under the threat of demolition.

This crumbling warehouse was once the third-largest cannery in the U.S. and the first in the world to can green asparagus.

Nothing to see here.

Hidden deep in the Joshua Tree Wilderness, this 1940s miner's cabin built into a gap between two mega-sized boulders.

An old locomotive hides deep in the forest.

Remnants of a town from a bygone era.

A dilapidated Victorian mansion sits in the middle of a Virginia golf course.

This abandoned open-pit copper mine features stunning turquoise mineral pools and excellent rock-hunting opportunities.

A commercial fishing boat stranded on the California coast.

Faded remnants of the entrance to a Mediterranean-style resort that never fully came to life.

This abandoned building with a murky history has been both a school and a prison.

Rusting hulk stands in testament to the Keweenaw Peninsula’s rich history of copper mining.

Crumbled shell of one of the oldest buildings in Virginia.

This elaborately-carved white marble fountain was built to stand outside the Detroit Opera House.

This unusual three-way wooden foot bridge spans two rivers at once.

Abandoned former poorhouse, bible college, and haunted house in an Ohio hamlet.

See the nearly two-century-old ruins of pre-railroad America at the former site of a lock on the Ohio and Erie Canal.

The oldest remaining authentic Putt-Putt course that Donald Clayton created in Ohio.

A Beaux-Arts triumph rises from decades of decay to become the heart of a new innovation district.

A wacky two-story folk-art assemblage of carved and found objects, with lights, motion, and sound now in need of financial support.

The plants form a living library and laboratory for researchers and students at Michigan State University.

This feline raises a friendly paw at drivers barreling toward the freeway.

Dozens of striking Indian symbols cover the second-floor hallways of this rural courthouse.