Places seanpruden01 Wants to Go

After the nearby mercury mine shut down, this town was abandoned and declared a Superfund site.

Remnants of a town from a bygone era.

The crumbling structure is a rare surviving relic of the area's bygone mining industry.

The graffitied ruins stand hidden within the Pennsylvania woods.

The remains of this early 20th century refinery loom on a mountainside like a graffiti-covered fortress.

These disused steel furnaces are now haunting ruins that may one day be a national park.

The oldest house in Manhattan is now a museum that remembers the home's sordid history of scandals, vice-presidents, and ghosts.

The ruins of this Thomas-Jefferson-designed mansion have been left to crumble since the Christmas Day they burnt down.

This historic train depot transports visitors to an early 20th-century world before desegregation

A rare example of a rural school in Washington, D.C.

Every drop of D.C. tap water flows through this old waterworks.

Three abandoned missile silos are hiding in plain sight behind a suburban development in Maryland.

The Cold War-era "underground Pentagon" is a sprawling subterranean hideaway for the Defense Department.

A lone historical marker off the highway and scattered debris are all that remain of this Cold War-era missile site.

Government testing at the asylum briefly explored using marijuana as a "truth serum" on Nazi prisoners of war.

Cold War intelligence agents monitored communist embassies from an attic in a former pigeon coop.

These colossal desert barcodes have been fine-tuning spy satellites for decades.

An elegant sandstone stairway built by the WPA still connects two neighborhoods in Akron.

This former factory has deep ties to rubber production in Akron.

The tragic reality of a village riddled with rumors of haunts, chemical spills, and serial killers.

The overgrown remains of an old rail bridge rise above the valley like ancient Greek ruins.

A former Canadian automobile ferry mysteriously appeared in the Black River 20 years ago, and now it quietly rusts away.

The oldest county library in the United States.

The headquarters of a pioneering cast iron and cast aluminum cookware company is in ruins, but still standing.