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Franklin, Pennsylvania
St. John's Episcopal Church
41.3958, -79.8289
De Pere, Wisconsin
Frank & Nancy’s Marine Corps Museum
44.4595, -88.2140
Luarca, Spain
Giant Squid Museum
43.5410, -6.5389
Mumbai, India
The Old Limestone Arch
18.9688, 72.8039
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Washington, D.C.
The Dupont Underground
Long-abandoned trolley tunnels just a mile away from the White House are turning into an art space.
Cavite City, Philippines
Corregidor Island
The ruins on a deserted tropical island in the Philippines bear the scars of WWII.
Permanently Closed
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago Freight Tunnels
A century-old network of freight tunnels underneath the city's historic business district.
Waterbury, Vermont
Ricker Basin
The remains of a deserted 1800s farming community can be found in Little River State Park.
Permanently Closed
Pontiac, Michigan
Pontiac Silverdome
What was once the largest NFL stadium.
Arkutino, Bulgaria
Arkutino School for Gifted Children
An unfinished complex built for children from around the world sits abandoned on the Black Sea coastline.
Permanently Closed
Newtown, Connecticut
Fairfield Hills Hospital
This abandoned psychiatric hospital once housed more than 4,000 patients in the middle of a quaint New England town.
Permanently Closed
Washington, D.C.
United Brick Corporation Ruins
Once the supplier for noteworthy projects like the National Cathedral, this old brickworks now lies abandoned.
Santo André, Brazil
Paranapiacaba Train Station
The remains of a British railway rusting in the jungle mist of a Brazilian mountainside.
Cleveland, Ohio
Sidaway Bridge
The ruins of the suspension bridge hang over Kingsbury Run as a ghost of racial prejudice.
Hondo, Texas
Ruins of St Dominic's Catholic Church
On a dusty county road sit the ruins of a ghost town's abandoned church.
Permanently Closed
Budapest, Hungary
Istvántelek Train Yard
The abandoned "Red Star Train Graveyard" is the final rusting place for precious artifacts of train history.
Melbourne, Australia
Flinders Street Station Ballroom
An abandoned jewel of a ballroom on the top floor of Australia’s busiest rail station echoes with the sounds of a bygone era.
New York, New York
The Hidden Art Deco Tunnel Underneath the New Yorker Hotel
The beautiful tunnel that ran from the lobby to Penn Station is still hidden underneath 34th Street.
Sukhumi, Georgia
Abandoned Council of Ministries Building
Ruins of a former government building destroyed during the Georgian-Abkhaz war in the wake of the fall of the Soviet Union.
Kudirkos Naumiestis, Lithuania
The Extinct Town of Schirwindt
You would never guess that before World War II this lonely field was a bustling German city.
Permanently Closed
Barú, Colombia
Pablo Escobar's Abandoned Secret Island Mansion
Hidden amid the tropical forest in the Caribbean Sea are the decaying ruins of the Cocaine King's luxurious island party home.
Unsko-sanski kanton, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Grmeč Monument to the Revolution
An abandoned brutalist monument whose history has been lost to the ages.
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