Places MrPExplores Wants to Go

This vacant church in the Financial District was once the heart of New York's first Syrian immigrant community.

This abandoned ironworks was once the most important military supplier in America.

These World War I shooting range tunnels are now haunted halls of underground graffiti accessed through the roots of a tree.

The remains of this early 20th century refinery loom on a mountainside like a graffiti-covered fortress.

Nine of the very few concrete ships ever made in the U.S. are beautifully decaying off a Virginia pier.

Costumed elves and mountain bikers co-exist peacefully at this abandoned Christmas-themed adventure park.

A Saint Nicholas-themed ghost town in the Mojave desert.

An FDR-era tuberculosis sanatorium has stood abandoned in the suburbs of the U.S. capital for over 30 years.

The ruins of a Florida miracle spring resort make it seem like a wonder that this was ever a health spa.

Despite being made of a seashell mortar, the crumbling remains of this historic Florida mill are still standing.

After hundreds of years of settlement, this once-bustling fishing village sunk into the Chesapeake Bay.

Tucked away on an empty wooded lot in suburban Oklahoma City lie the remnants of an abandoned circus camp.

An abandoned early-20th-century boomtown sits within the Calico Rock city limits.

A former connection to City Island, it has been abandoned since the 1930s.

This overgrown Illinois water park offers a whole new type of adventure.

This road in the Great Smoky Mountains was supposed to assuage a displaced community, but ended up a $52 million dead end.

No one really knows how these old hobby horses got here, but the herd keeps growing.

The ruins of this long-abandoned unsuccessful gold mine can still be found.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

This old cement mine has been used as everything from a mushroom farm to a recording studio.

On the outskirts of a reborn ghost town, a decaying post office remembers the bad old days.

An abandoned asylum once on the cutting edge of lobotomies may be reborn as a Christian college.

Settled by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1859, this abandoned frontier town has appeared in several films.

The ghostly remains of what was once the world's richest copper mine.