Places seanpruden01 Wants to Go

One of the best-preserved ghost towns in Arizona speaks to the difficulties of establishing mining towns in the 19th century American West.

This small town was built around a marble quarry and named after one of the most famous sources of marble in the world.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

Under the right conditions, rocks will move across this dry lakebed, leaving trails behind them.

This magnificent, quirky home sits atop a literal gold mine in the middle of the Nevada desert.

A massive hydrovolcanic explosion left a half-mile wide crater in Death Valley.

An abandoned Jazz Age dream home and con man's hideout in Death Valley.

A hard-to-reach oasis in a desolate corner of Death Valley National Park.

The rocks in this arid basin leave trails of movement behind them.

A lawless town deep in Death Valley was famous for its riches and death rate turned YouTube famous.

Some of the Old West's most notorious outlaws frequented this mining town.

This Gold Rush ghost town was once the subject of a territorial dispute between California and Nevada.

This innovative mill was built for a legendary gold mine that never came to be.

Vulture Mine was Arizona’s most productive gold mine, and instrumental to the development of Phoenix.

Before its closure in 2002, this South Dakota mine was the largest and deepest gold mine in Western Hemisphere.

An abandoned early 20th-century gold mine in a spectacular setting overlooking Bridgeport Valley and the Sierra Nevada.

Bodie's 20th-century rival was a paragon of respectability and calm—but the mines eventually ran dry.

Once a mining boom town, Mogollon’s well-preserved buildings are tucked away in the mountains of the Gila National Forest.

This Old West prison built into the side of a cliff was said to be inescapable.

The world's only three-story rotary jail is now a museum to a bizarre trend in prison design.

The maximum security facility was once thought to have "the bloodiest 47 acres in America."

Destroyed by flood waters, prison now serves as a training ground for armed forces.

This abandoned church languishing for decades is now one man's passion project and subject of paranormal investigators.

A hotel with a rich Wild West history of miners and bootleggers.