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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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Manětín, Czechia
Kostel Svatého Jiří Ghost Church
Thirty creepy ghosts now inhabit this decaying 14th-century church.
Permanently Closed
Dessau-Roßlau, Germany
Abandoned Crematorium and Cemetery
The ruins of an abandoned crematorium haunt an eerie deserted German cemetery.
Fatehpur Sikri, India
Fatehpur Sikri
An imperial fortress city that incorporated cultural elements from the entire Mughal empire, only to be abandoned the year it was finished.
Stanley, Idaho
Custer Ghost Town
See just what life was like in a 19th-century prospecting town.
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Nab the Abandoned Mansion That Inspired the Phrase 'Keeping Up With the Joneses'
It's for sale in New York's Hudson Valley.
Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands
Old Japanese Lighthouse
An abandoned lighthouse off the beaten path, one of the few surviving pre-World War II Japanese structures, offers a beautiful view.
Permanently Closed
Ovid, New York
Willard Asylum for the Chronic Insane
An abandoned asylum where patients have been forgotten but their possessions remain.
Ashibetsu, Japan
Canadian World
A semi-abandoned replica of Prince Edward Island's Avonlea—in Japan.
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Boston, Massachusetts
Brook Farm
Site of a famous 19th-century transcendentalist utopian community, now abandoned.
Cape Breton, Nova Scotia
Broughton, Nova Scotia
The remains of an attempt to carve a thriving metropolis from the forest, and once home to the first revolving door in North America.
Permanently Closed
Jeffrey City, Wyoming
Jeffrey City Ghost Town
This mining town boomed in the Atomic Age when uranium was gold, only to be abandoned when the industry collapsed.
Invergordon, Scotland
Oil Rig Graveyard
Where the sleeping monsters of Scotland's oil industry are left to rust.
Needles, California
Carty's Camp
An abandoned 1920s-era stretch of cabins now overshadowed by the 66 Motel.
Greenland
Camp Century (Project Iceworm)
A Cold War atomic camp buried under the ice is now emerging because of global warming.
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Čolina Kapa Astronomical Observatory
The haunting ruins of a military fortress turned astronomical observatory sit on a Sarajevo mountaintop.
Baturiti, Indonesia
Ghost Palace Hotel
An abandoned hotel in the highlands of Bali is shrouded in stories of ghosts, curses, and corruption.
Monticello, Utah
Home of Truth
This ghost town was once a cult-like religious utopian settlement.
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