Places seanpruden01 Wants to Go

Remnants of a quarry company town still stand on the banks of the Wapsipinicon River.

First planned industrial community in the United States.

World War II-era Nazi compound nestled in the Santa Monica hills.

Barely visible foundations remain where Stow Lake’s “observatory” once welcomed visitors.

Urban explorers embraced America's now demolished first suburban mall, south of Chicago.

This stunning gothic ruin was a casualty of the Indiana steel industry crash.

Raised high above the Cimarron River, this 1,268-foot rail bridge followed a half-century of trainwrecks, bridge collapses, and an abandoned town.

The oldest surviving botanic garden in the United States.

This 15-foot tall obelisk commemorating the Philadelphia-Baltimore railroad connection sat neglected for over a century.

This tiny historic jail along Route 66 is the perfect fit for exactly one criminal and their partner-in-crime.

The overgrown remains of a folly temple/playhouse, in an unmaintained section of a Dupage County Forest Preserve.

This former nursery supplied plants for the creation of Chicago's largest park.

A historic and oft-filmed prison stands in a Chicago suburb.

This national park dedicated to the tallgrass prairie ecosystem still displays its military past.

What was once the second largest steel mill in the US is now a sprawling complex of modern ruins.

A once grand hotel is being retaken by the wilderness it once capitalized on.

For over 80 years, Mayan ruins stood proudly in a most unlikely location.

One man's swirling six-acre monument of stone.

An historic lighthouse accessible via a half-mile walk through a nature preserve and freshwater tidal wetlands.

Rainbow-hued local gem in Venice.

Funded by John D. Rockefeller, this is one of the earliest, and most beautiful, shopping arcades in America.

Abandoned since the 1950s, the streetcar lane beneath the heavily trafficked bridge lays empty and unused.

The home made famous by the 1983 holiday classic is now a perfectly preserved shrine to the movie.

This prison-turned-museum is a remnant of the Old West's grizzly, violent past.