Places zenman Wants to Go

This old mining town, deep in the California desert, has a year-round population of one.

Once a place of peaceful repose, this sanitarium now faces an uncertain future.

An abandoned marine theme park has created a difficult experiment in dolphin rewilding.

Along the old Route 66 is an abandoned trading post made from old telephone poles, built by a former circus clown.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

This ghost town was once a cult-like religious utopian settlement.

An abandoned 1920s-era stretch of cabins now overshadowed by the 66 Motel.

This mining town boomed in the Atomic Age when uranium was gold, only to be abandoned when the industry collapsed.

Once a bastion of its community, this gothic cathedral now stands as a haunting ruin.

A peat bog in southern Sweden provides a cozy and photogenic home for junked Volvos, Saabs, and the occasional American muscle car.

This abandoned psychiatric hospital once housed more than 4,000 patients in the middle of a quaint New England town.

The abandoned "Red Star Train Graveyard" is the final rusting place for precious artifacts of train history.

The remains of a British railway rusting in the jungle mist of a Brazilian mountainside.

The world's largest prehistoric copper mine had 30,000 animal bones scattered throughout the maze of passageways.

One of the most poignant ruins of the Chornobyl nuclear disaster, the local football team's stadium has been quickly reclaimed by nature.

An abandoned mine now resembles a post-apocalyptic landscape of derelict buildings and blood-red pools of water.

Colin Stokes "got a bit carried away" and built a castle that looks like something out of Tolkien.

The old Route 66 town straddling Texas and New Mexico died along with the Main Street of America.

A recently abandoned psych ward at the end of Sanatorium Road.

One of the world's largest automobile junkyards is a unique landscape of metal and moss.

The abandoned ruins of America's first private zoo are open for exploration in the Catskills.

The deserted pirate-themed restaurant still entices explorers.

This rusting remnant of the local herring industry is being given a second life.

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