Abandoned

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

A long-vacant Scottish Rite temple in Hollywood has been converted into an art museum filled with Masonic relics.

The hidden offices underneath Memorial Bridge have been locked up since 1976.

This former abandoned hospital, a complex of stunning 19th century buildings, once housed 2,000 psychiatric patients.

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

Plenty of old carney magic still haunts this photogenic amusement park.

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

This forgotten building was one of the few Philadelphia-area breweries to survive Prohibition.

Ship skeletons haunt Baltimore's waterways.

An abandoned concrete jungle surrounded by a lush park.

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

Meant to be one of the most extravagant hotels in the world, now an eerie, abandoned architectural gem in Mexico City.

A derelict bit of transportation infrastructure hidden in the woods.

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

In the woods of New Jersey lie the ruins of a munitions village abandoned after World War I and the remnants of a 1920s wooden racetrack.

This abandoned palace and the stupas around it conceal beautiful Buddhist frescoes, statues, and silk paintings.

An iconic steel and chrome diner from the 1940s left empty for nearly 20 years is in danger of being demolished.