Places mscollinstm Wants to Go

A former zoo turned public park, where visitors can hang out in the old animal cages.

An abandoned Victorian-era mill in the middle of modern Manchester.

The ruins of an abandoned 18th-century town that is slowly being reclaimed by the forest.

The former locus of Boston's high culture has been shuttered and buried for over 70 years.

Run by a eugenics advocate, this aging institution conducted secret radiation experiments sponsored by Quaker Oats.

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

This fairy tale-themed amusement park is now abandoned, and childhood metaphors abound.

The bears may be gone, but their old cages can still be found.

This dam in the woods, built by Henry Ford with only manpower and oxen, holds no water and serves no purpose.

Site of a famous 19th-century transcendentalist utopian community, now abandoned.

Abandoned Coast Artillery fort now serves as a graffiti canvas and sightseeing vantage point.

The ruins of a Massachusetts prison farm can still be found crumbling the woods of a state park.

The only surviving building of historic West Boylston, which was flooded to create the Wachusett Reservoir.

This railroad tunnel was once the longest in Massachusetts.

Once the largest public hospital for the mentally ill was also surrounded by controversy.

In the middle of a New England forest sit the crumbling ruins of World War II-era ammunition storage bunkers.

Rhode Island's tallest building bears a resemblance to the "Daily Planet" building and has been empty for more than five years.

Every Saturday morning, this microbakery fills up with freshly baked pastries and sourdough breads.

Evidence of a long-ago crush remains scratched into the glass at this historic Maryland House.

The intriguing personal collection of a professional demon-chaser.

An overgrown and abandoned tuberculosis ward resides in the midst of a quaint modern neighborhood.

An eerie gravel road full of shards of red bricks leads to the ruins of a deserted factory.

In the woods of New Jersey lie the ruins of a munitions village abandoned after World War I and the remnants of a 1920s wooden racetrack.

The beauty of urban decay, hiding some dark secrets.