Places seanpruden01 Wants to Go

Slated for demolition in 1962, the historic Pomeroy-Academia Covered Bridge was saved by conservationists.

The Old Mill shown in the opening credits of “Gone With the Wind” is actually fairly new, and was never a mill at all.

This historic bridge has weathered fires and floods and still stands, now abandoned, where it has stood since 1874.

This sandstone marvel of nature is worth a stop along Highway 65.

Not one, but two of Frank Lloyd Wright's architectural masterpieces nestled on the same street.

A humble reminder to Bedford’s past sits hidden in plain sight.

Former abode of notable poet, complete with literary references and stories of ghosts.

America's oldest archaeological site or a muddled case of wishful thinking.

All that remains of this Massachusetts town, demolished in the name of progress, is a stone marker.

The kind of mixed-up place that drives archaeologists crazy.

The US Navy's only submarine museum is also home to the world's first nuclear submarine.

Underground tunnels remain beneath this abandoned mental asylum.

These etchings reveal the history of a long-gone quarantine site.

An unfinished rail tunnel that has since been used to house cheese and bats.

The second oldest jail in Florida gives insight into the realities of the criminal justice system at the turn of the 20th century.

This octagonal rotary jail built in 1889 now serves as a visitor's center.

Constructed in 1882, this jail once housed local inmates and the sheriff's family all under one roof.

All that remains of a gigantic earth-moving machine.

This underground holding cell was forgotten for over a century and rediscovered in the 1960s.

One of the last few period-correct, hand-operated canal locks in the country.

Long buried under the 20th-century landscape, this lift lock of the Alexandria Canal is the lone remnant of an ambitious early American transportation project.

It's easy to forget what century it is as you wander this rustic homestead.

The oldest building in the District of Columbia was preserved because of a mistaken connection to George Washington.

This seemingly out-of-place gas station by the Watergate hotel was once described as the most expensive gas station in the world.