Places seanpruden01 Wants to Go

A former mining hospital is now a vibrant artistic hub.

This colossal underground passage paved the way for large-scale drainage and access tunnels across the U.S., but it almost wasn’t built.

The ruins of a military outpost from the 1860s form the centerpiece of a Nevada state park.

This sandstone mansion was the home of two of Oregon's most important pioneers.

Tens of thousands of tiny birds swarm into one school chimney every fall.

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.

Activists are fighting to preserve these unfinished highway ramps as a tribute to the citizen revolt that halted their construction decades ago.

The remains of a former logging boom town, crumbled away in the forest.

Secret Manor, a house full of legends, the least of which is the haunting of long-deceased ladies of pleasure.

This 200-year-old cabin was the home of some of the first Wisconsin “badgers” and the site of the broken promises that led to their arrival.

The precious-metals strikes dating back to the 1860s are now mostly inactive, but this area has become the United States' only domestic source of lithium.

This silver-mining camp has been active intermittently from the 1860s to the present.

A half-acre utopia in the New Mexico desert features a graveyard, a game of horseshoes, a library, and a mailbox.

Crumbling remnants of what was once a booming town full of silver.

A restored 1920s cascade stairway provides one of the best views of Oakland's Lake Merritt.

This small canyon park was once the main street of Silver City—until a flood washed it away.

This 1863 adobe building is home to one of the oldest operating saloons in the Southwest.

A memorial dedicated to veterans of all wars especially those lost in Bataan defending the Philippines during World War II.

These ruins of a pre-Columbian cliff village are among the most beautiful and well preserved in New Mexico.

The poems Nathaniel Hawthorne and his wife Sophia etched into its windows are still visible today.

The Wright Tavern is possibly the most important building in Concord Massachusetts to the American Revolution.

Louisa May Alcott based “Little Women” on her experiences growing up in this house with her sisters.

An early life spent in this "Old Kentucky Home" inspired the writings of North Carolina's most famous novelist.

The childhood home of America’s first winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.