Places seanpruden01 Wants to Go

Abandoned concert venue legendary for its rock counterculture.

This empty Detroit high school was too expensive to maintain or destroy.

Hike the ruins of a zoo that was shut down by an unsolved murder.

The bones of an old zoo crumbling in the shadow of a new one.

It's an incredibly beautiful city public space, with spacious rooms to study and admire the artwork.

Berry Gordy Jr.'s old home was the original headquarters of Motown Record Corporation.

A Beaux-Arts triumph rises from decades of decay to become the heart of a new innovation district.

Glass and concrete building designed by Albert Kahn.

Enormous small-business mecca in the Midwest, serving dozens of artists.

The concrete shell of an industry giant remains as a playground for graffiti artists, auto scrappers, and paintball warriors.

Once home to more than 50 displays of freshwater fish.

The ruins of the suspension bridge hang over Kingsbury Run as a ghost of racial prejudice.

Ghost stories surrounded this “castle,” the only structure from a huge mansion that was never built.

This abandoned bridge to nowhere stands secluded in the woods of a Cleveland suburb.

This lovely university observatory continues to sit abandoned since its potential savior was sent to jail for fraud.

An enormous factory from the late 1800s sits abandoned on Cleveland eastside.

This former fire tower is now a rustic observatory that offers amazing views of eagles, hawks, and the Appalachian Mountains.

This statue in Talcott, West Virginia, is an enduring symbol of American grit.

This historic jailhouse was designed by famed architect Robert Mills.

An ornate abandoned schoolhouse hidden in the woods near a decaying mill town.

A nearly century-old amusement park is quietly decaying in a riverside forest in South Carolina.

The last surviving 19th-century blast furnace in Connecticut.

Tucked behind New Jersey's abandoned Gingerbread Castle lie the eerie ruins of a once-flourishing paper mill.

Once in a state of dilapidation, this candy-inspired fortress is now being revived.