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Abandoned Houses

Farmville, Virginia

Abandoned Dunnington Mansion

A dilapidated Victorian mansion sits in the middle of a Virginia golf course.

The exterior of the Hall of Records.

Atlas Obscura Mailbag: Urban Exploration, Illegal Carvings, and Repeat Vacations

Don’t do anything Dylan wouldn’t do.

The Podcast Team July 12, 2025

Podcast: Villa de Vecchi

This abandoned Italian mansion, with its fair share of ghostly tales.

The Podcast Team August 28, 2023

Page Ranch House

Cedar City, Utah

Page Ranch House

Built at the turn of the 20th century, using bricks made and fired from clay found on the property.

Danbury, Connecticut

Hearthstone Castle

A castle inspired by medieval architecture is hidden in the woods of Connecticut.

Permanently Closed

Newbury, Massachusetts

Plum Island Pink House

This picturesque abandoned home is rumored to be a spite house.

Foinikas.

Foinikas

A crumbling ghost town with prime views of the dam that doomed it.

Front entrance of the Gibraltar Mansion.

Wilmington, Delaware

Marian Coffin Garden

Enchanting gardens surround a derelict mansion, all hidden in plain sight behind a stone wall.

You could tell that this abandoned villa in Piedmont, northern Italy, was once inhabited by a couple.

Documenting the Beauty of Italy's Abandoned Villas

The photographer Eleonora Costi spent the last four years tracking down her country's crumbling treasures.

Vittoria Traverso February 22, 2018

Cortenova, Italy

Villa de Vecchi

The abandoned "Ghost Mansion" was left to decay in the mountains of Northern Italy.

Holt House in November, 2008.

Washington, D.C.

Holt House

There's a crumbling old mansion inside the Smithsonian National Zoo.

Permanently Closed

The beautiful circular villa is now in ruins.

Dilijan, Armenia

Khanjian Villa

The luxurious circular mansion built for a Communist leader now lies abandoned.

Ghost Town of Oakton South Dakota

Murdo, South Dakota

Okaton Ghost Town

The deserted railroad town had a last gasp as a ghost town attraction before being abandoned for good.

Oakland, New Jersey

Van Slyke Castle Ruins

The remains of a century-old mansion that met a fiery demise years after it was deserted.

The Octagon House

Marion, Virginia

The Octagon House

An eight-sided home built during a brief octagon craze in the 1850s.

Shengshan Island, China

Houtouwan

This abandoned fishing settlement may well be the greenest village in the world.

Colin's Barn's turrets.

Chedglow, England

Colin's Barn

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

17 Room Ruin

A well-preserved Ancestral Puebloan ruin tucked beneath a desert cliff.