Places seanpruden01 Wants to Go

Take a self-guided tour through one of Colorado's most elevated mining districts.

A hidden piece of Altoona's railroad history in a long-forgotten abandoned town.

These massive concrete foundations and smelter chimney bricks still smell like smoke after a century.

Red ocher pictographs survive in this tufa rock shelter on the shore of an ancient lake.

The oldest pictographs on this decorated rock formation in California's Carrizo Plain date back as many as 4,000 years.

These petroglyphs created by ancient Arizonians have withstood centuries of exposure to the elements.

The stone circle honors the 19 firemen who perished during the Yarnell Hill Fire.

This old cement mine has been used as everything from a mushroom farm to a recording studio.

An isolated early 20th-century gold mine in the remote Pine Forest Range contains much preserved equipment.

This deserted Gold Rush town is home to a Masonic lodge that, strangely enough, still holds meetings.

The eerie ruins of an isolated abandoned town nicknamed "the Widowmaker" for its deadly gold mine.

This former mining hub holds a surprising abundance of undisturbed relics from the Old West.

Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.

This ramshackle ghost town is comprised of mining-era buildings collected from around the region.

Once an unstoppable source of gold and silver, this town came to a grinding stop when the groundwater proved deadly.

The remnants of the base where US Army troops learned how to fight in extreme conditions.

During WWII the U.S. Navy conducted primitive drone strikes on this Lake Michigan lighthouse.

The remains of a deserted steamboat sit rusting beside an old ferry pier and an abandoned train platform.

The rusting remains of the largest assembled WWII fleet on the West Coast.

The remnants of a wooden-hulled fleet built and abandoned in WWI, now home to a thriving ecosystem.

This empty Victorian manse on Staten Island is said to be haunted but is actually a real life crime scene.

During the American Revolution, this mansion hosted failed peace talks between the British and Americans.

Showing films since the silent era of the 1920s, it is now the last movie house in downtown Newport.

The oldest still-operating tavern in the United States was once owned by a pirate.