Places seanpruden01 Wants to Go

The scant remains of this flooded historic village can be explored in one of the most remote areas of the Great Smokies.

Inside a state forest, the forgotten remains of a Cold War defensive installation.

The ruins of an abandoned 18th-century town that is slowly being reclaimed by the forest.

A nearly abandoned 19th-century town on the Palouse.

A home made entirely from scrapped, reclaimed and recycled material in Whitman County, Washington.

The same family lived in this Victorian house for nearly 100 years without altering the building.

This Victorian mansion is part heritage museum, part architectural oddity, and part ghost story.

This 30,000 square-foot museum is home to an extensive collection of art and artifacts that reflect the history of southwest Ohio.

You might recognize this historic Oregon mansion from its appearance in 'The Goonies.'

Built around 1845, this house was occupied for 100 years, serving as a home to a prosecuting attorney, a Union Civil War general, and a wealthy socialite.

A castle built by an eccentric medieval enthusiast in suburban Ohio.

An abandoned stretch of highway, deteriorating next to the operational one.

An abandoned munitions factory with a shot tower continues to wage war on the surrounding environment.

Ruined pieces of stone and a swimming pool are all that remain of an amusement park swept away by a flood.

This railroad overpass is said to be home to a murderous goat-man whose very legend has led to very real deaths.

A stunning, abandoned limestone quarry in southern Indiana provided the stone to erect the Empire State Building.

If astronomy had a ghost, it would look like this observatory.

The overgrown remains of one of the premier auto-racing speedways in the Midwest—and also one of the most deadly.

An abandoned observatory in the middle of the Illinois prairie.

The forest has reclaimed nearly everything—streets included—from this failed Pennsylvania "City of Heaven" that was once deeded directly to God.

The most easily accessible intact vertical mine shaft structure remaining in the Red Mountain Mining District.

This beautiful building in the heart of Manhattan's Financial District was empty for decades.

A mining town, now abandoned, was built in a canyon so narrow that the railroad ran right through the hotel lobby.

This once-popular otherworldly landscape was formed by one of the largest volcanic eruptions in history.