Places seanpruden01 Wants to Go

The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.

This mountaintop beacon is only lit three times a year but shines like some kind of all-seeing eye.

A 1920s speakeasy that had rum runners racing up and down the shores of California.

The graffiti-covered remnants of a former triangulation station are balanced precariously on this California peak.

A pier that used to act as a busy ferry dock is now a decaying favorite of local fisherman and urban artists.

One of the best absinthe distilleries in the United States.

A decommissioned Naval base now rents itself out for people who want to blow stuff up.

Big gun installations, built over a massive cemetery, now abandoned & hidden in trees.

The one-time watch house for incoming ships at the Golden Gate now stands abandoned and hidden in trees.

A 1914 beaux arts auditorium that sat shuttered for 20 years, restored and reopened in 2026

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

Forrest Gump ran past this iconic Maine lighthouse in his cinematic cross-country journey.

The lighthouse central to the 1980s horror classic "The Fog" is, in fact, located in one of the foggiest areas of the Pacific Coast.

This abandoned boat was left in place thanks to its rotting beauty.

Built by the inventor of the radio, this abandoned hotel has housed early radio employees, military men, and a dangerous cult.

I Street Bridge is the heaviest swinging center bridge in the United States.

Before it was abandoned and left to rust alongside the road, this riverboat starred in a John Wayne movie.

Where a staggering 747 ships were constructed during World War II.

Once the largest winery in the world, this castle-like building now sits abandoned on the San Pablo/San Francisco Bay shore.

The longest covered bridge west of the Mississippi River.

Where the writer penned his famous story about a jumping frog.

Hidden beneath a lake for decades, this brutalist mine has now emerged from beneath the receding waters.

An ominous concrete cube cuts a dystopian silhouette atop this California mountain.

Housed in a memorial lighthouse, this museum relays the history of surfing, beginning with the antics of royal Hawaiian teenagers.