Places seanpruden01 Wants to Go

All that remains of a vanished Michigan lumber town, remembered for tragedy, plague, and a witch’s curse.

A popular East Bay hiking trail houses the ruins of a sanitarium that was destroyed in a blaze 50 years ago.

In the 1950s, two women saved this grand theater in the Colorado mountains from demolition.

A prehistoric rock shelter that's literally in someone's backyard.

When ecosystems collide in the arid Southwest.

The site where a nuclear bomb was lowered over 8,000 feet underground and detonated as an experiment in natural gas extraction.

What was once one of the country's largest confectionary plants is now an abandoned ruin, but is still pretty sweet.

An abandoned village that doubled as "The Hunger Games"' post-apocalyptic wasteland is up for grabs.

Once a bastion of its community, this gothic cathedral now stands as a haunting ruin.

This ranch on the banks of the Rio Grande is home to a little-known LGBTQ history of Mary Cabot Wheelwright, Marie Chabot, and two-spirit Navajo weaver Hastiin Klah.

This cave was hidden for thousands of years, storing the worldly goods of ancient Native Americans.

Neither Spanish settlers nor anyone since has been able to tell who built these strange California rock walls.

These wave-cut overhangs on ancient Lake Chewaucan contain some of the oldest evidence of human habitation in North America.

How a bat poo mine became a major Native American archaeological site—and connections to legendary red-haired giants.

Ute tour guides have been sharing the ancient dwellings and rock art inside this large park with visitors for more than 40 years.

A small canyon with petroglyphs and a seasonal waterfall, only a short hike from the remnants of old Route 66.

A working cattle ranch with remarkably well-preserved prehistoric petroglyphs and ancient ruins.

Fresh wooden posts have been added to ancient holes to recreate a primitive henge clock.

A restored, one-room African-American schoolhouse in the diva's hometown now preserves the legacy of its most famous student.

Over a dozen Native American earth mounds dating back over 2,000 years dot this Tennessee archaeological park.

An abandoned factory along the Mississippi coated by a giant mural.

Once one of the world's great cities, Cahokia was a place of religious worship, trade and mass human sacrifice before being mysteriously abandoned.

These ancient ritual mounds are our best window into the culture of the ancient Mississippians.

A 13,000-year-old mastodon skeleton was found during the construction of a 19th-century New York mill.