Places seanpruden01 Wants to Go

The only mine for rare earth elements in the United States has been intermittently active since the 1950s.

A difficult trail leads to interesting ruins in a remote canyon in the Toiyabe Range.

Located in the remote Monitor Valley, this travertine bowl contains a scalding pool of water.

The second seat of Nye County, still mostly a ghost town, has become a magnet for those looking to live "away from it all."

All that remains of this once-booming mining town are the ruins of a saloon.

This nearly abandoned town was once a thriving mining community until a series of fires.

One of the best-preserved early 20th-century ore-processing mills in Nevada is maintained in a state of arrested decay.

The current Eureka County Courthouse replaced an all-wooden structure that had previously been an ice-skating rink.

A Nevada mining boomtown that ran out of silver and luck.

This pseudo-steampunk weapons facility is the world's largest wood and glue structure, and packs quite a wallop.

An abandoned amusement park based on the popular 1940s Red Ryder comic strip.

An entire subdivision was accidentally built on a flood plain, resulting in its eventual demolition—but the streets are still there.

These huge stone ovens in the desert fueled the Nevada silver boom, and may have also been a hideout for outlaws.

It bustled briefly in the late 1860s, but little is now left at this stage stop on the Hamilton/Pioche Stage and Freight Road

Red sandstone structures dominate this landscape, which has been inhabited for some 5,000 years.

More than 300 years ago, a revolt at this Hopi pueblo shaped the future of the American Southwest.

An artificial crater field that trained astronauts for lunar exploration.

This historic national park is covered in the stunning ruins of red rock pueblos.

Oldest building in California still in use.

An abandoned facility that has become a place of ritualistic satanic worship, or so rumor has it.

Once a year, the ruins of an ancient village come alive with hundreds of glowing farolitos.

A tall smoke stack and boarded-up buildings are all that's left of the pioneering plant.

Great place to have a drink and a bite to eat in an atmosphere laden with New York's Bohemian past.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.