Abandoned

This might be the most famous abandoned hotel in the Caribbean.

The haunting ruins of a once-holy church now stand as a forgotten relic of Montreal’s past.

Cold War missile site at high alert during the Cuban Missile Crisis, now a post-apocalyptic backdrop.

A preserved Nazi munitions factory hidden in the forest, now a quiet memorial to those who once labored and suffered there.

A commercial fishing boat stranded on the California coast.

The towering ruins of a mill that never produced a single sheet of paper.

An abandoned Ontario prison turned over to time and nature.

A seemingly abandoned store in central Manchester with a lengthy backstory.

All that remains of a vanished Michigan lumber town, remembered for tragedy, plague, and a witch’s curse.

A decaying gateway to a never-built housing collective.

This massive, now-retired coal-mine excavator is said to resemble a mythical dragon.

An abandoned early 20th-century mansion towers over a cliff in a southern Peruvian beach town.

This abandoned open-pit copper mine features stunning turquoise mineral pools and excellent rock-hunting opportunities.

The empty town of Scenic, South Dakota, is owned by a church in the Philippines.

A seaside morgue for the victims of the North Sea.

This tunnel gave a name to a tiny community, but is now abandoned.

A shopping mall housed in a historic cinema and hiding ancient ruins under its floors.

A ghostly and forgotten art deco bathhouse by the windy shore of Dunkirk, weathered but still standing.