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St. John's Episcopal Church
41.3958, -79.8289
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Frank & Nancy’s Marine Corps Museum
44.4595, -88.2140
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Giant Squid Museum
43.5410, -6.5389
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The Old Limestone Arch
18.9688, 72.8039
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Salinas, California
Fort Ord
Once America’s most beautiful army base, this abandoned military fort on the coast of Monterey Bay has been left to the elements.
Milledgeville, Georgia
Central State Hospital
One of the largest-ever mental hospitals now sits abandoned, surrounded by 25,000 unmarked graves.
San Angelo, Texas
Lower Ghost Camp
A mysteriously abandoned campsite in San Angelo State Park.
Waterloo, Iowa
Sans Souci Island
This remote island in Iowa was abandoned after being devastated by flood.
Portugal
Mina de SĂ£o Domingos (Sao Domingos Mines)
An abandoned mine now resembles a post-apocalyptic landscape of derelict buildings and blood-red pools of water.
Prypiat, Ukraine
Abandoned Avanhard Stadium of Prypiat
One of the most poignant ruins of the Chornobyl nuclear disaster, the local football team's stadium has been quickly reclaimed by nature.
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Touring the Abandoned Atlantic City Sites That Inspired the Monopoly Board
The once-glamorous casinos and hotels have become a gilded ghost town.
Cleveland, Ohio
Streetcar Deck of the Detroit-Superior Bridge
Abandoned since the 1950s, the streetcar lane beneath the heavily trafficked bridge lays empty and unused.
White Springs, Florida
White Sulfur Springs Ruins
The abandoned bathhouse is all that remains of the hot springs considered Florida's original tourist attraction.
Saaremaa, Estonia
Kiipsaare Lighthouse
Once standing on solid ground, this slender beacon is a victim of the very shoreline it was charged with announcing.
Chesterfield, New Hampshire
Madame Sherri's Castle
Ruins of the elaborate house where the enigmatic costume designer threw glamorous parties for New York's theatrical elite.
Permanently Closed
Cave City, Kentucky
Funtown Mountain
An abandoned theme park with a strange and tumultuous past.
Sant Just Desvern, Spain
La FĂ¡brica (The Factory)
An architect transformed this abandoned cement factory into his castle-like workshop.
Arcadia, Oklahoma
Old Route 66 Filling Station
Along the historic Mother Road is an old gas station with a secret counterfeiting past.
Varese, Italy
Grand Hotel Campo dei Fiori
A once-luxurious, now abandoned hotel in the Italian Alps.
Glen Cove, New York
Welwyn Preserve
The abandoned grounds and derelict greenhouses of this once-magnificent Edwardian estate are now a nature preserve open for exploration.
Permanently Closed
Alderson, West Virginia
Alderson Academy
This abandoned school has had many lives since the early 1900s, and all of them doomed.
Permanently Closed
Limbiate, Italy
Mombello Psychiatric Hospital
A dilapidated psychiatric facility on the outskirts of Milan where electroconvulsive therapy was developed and Napoleon once lived.
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