Places seanpruden01 Wants to Go

Discover for yourself what Herb Caen referred to as "the best kept secret in the Bay Area."

An expansive and intricately restored mansion remains from over a century ago--and so do its ghosts.

A historic house in St. Louis was plagued by a series of suicides committed by family members involved in a successful brewery.

The remains of a historic ranch house that witnessed the Civil War battle dubbed the “Gettysburg of the West.”

Despite time, colonization, and the brutal New Mexican heat, these Pueblo ruins still stand.

The first railway tunnel to cross the Continental Divide and, at 11,523 feet, was once the highest railroad tunnel in the world.

This underground cave located in the most barren reaches of Idaho is filled with ice year-round.

Original factory of John G. Borden who started what we know today known as Borden Dairy.

This stone gatehouse was once the entrance to a historic mountain resort, and it had a cameo in a cheesy cult horror movie.

The rustic think-space of famed naturalist John Burroughs stands exactly as he left it.

Stroll the grounds built by murder, suicide, and dirty oil money at one of Hollywood's most filmed mansions.

The life of one of FDR's possible mistresses is preserved in her palatial Hudson Valley mansion.

The only intersection in America where the buildings on all four corners were built pre-Revolutionary War.

What was once a trend-setting, phrase-coining icon of architectural splendor is now a rotting, forgotten hulk.

"A hideous albatross in the Hudson River Valley."

The oldest continuously inhabited street in America.

The largest known open fault in the United States is basically a giant natural refrigerator.

A lava tube cooled to form this long tunnel that stays chilly even at the height of summer.

A former sanitarium where soldiers were sent to recover in the healing waters of hot springs.

The seventh largest spring in the world.

Two gushing waterfalls of hot spring water within a block of each other.

This historic hotel on Bathhouse Row in Hot Springs National Park has a storied history of gangsters and baseball greats.

Crystal hunters can dig for their own stones at this DIY mine in Arkansas’ quartz belt.

Nicknamed the "Grand Canyon of the North," this open-pit mine in Minnesota has a much shorter history.