Places seanpruden01 Wants to Go

This Italianate Villa-style castle is pretty to look at, just keep off the private property.

This old selenite mine is dotted with tiny crystals that make it shimmer like it's covered in glitter.

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

For over a century, it was a crucial center of mental health treatment and also the source of many local legends.

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.

Jail from the 19th century that was built by inmates.

A ruined hotel with an unlucky history and an eerie present.

Former farm staffed by mental patients is now a public park.

A former copper mine which became a truly unsuccessful prison.

Home on the Hillside, and home of the first breakfast cereal.

North America's oldest quarantine facility was built in response to Philadelphia's 1793 yellow fever outbreak.

The abandoned hospital whose elaborate ghost stories cover up the dirty truth - an uneventful sanitation issue and other mundane reasons for its demise.

This hospital once pioneered the use of electroencephalograms, but fell into maltreatment, abuse, and eventual abandonment.

A look into the Church of Scientology's deeply unfavorable view of psychiatry.

An institution that preserves the history of institutionalization.

Once known as the Illinois Asylum for the Incurable Insane.

Paranormal investigators claim this abandoned asylum is the most haunted spot in the eastern U.S.

A former mental hospital founded in the 1930s by a eugenicist who advocated for the forced sterilization of patients.

This former asylum for Black Americans is haunted by its history of violence and racism.

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

The name of this famed hospital was once a byword for the horrors of medical and psychiatric care.

Created by four famous men, the beautifully designed Buffalo State Asylum was resurrected as a hotel and art center, but still boasts a ghost story or two.

This airstrip atoll is uninhabited by humans, but absolutely full of birds.

A remote one-room schoolhouse on Catalina Island, once a lifeline for local children, now abandoned.