Abandoned

For a brief moment, the world was given a flicker of the future of fast food, thanks to a visionary inventor.

An abandoned early-20th-century boomtown sits within the Calico Rock city limits.

Along the old Route 66 is an abandoned trading post made from old telephone poles, built by a former circus clown.

Tucked away on an empty wooded lot in suburban Oklahoma City lie the remnants of an abandoned circus camp.

An abandoned marine theme park has created a difficult experiment in dolphin rewilding.

Crumbling ruins mark the site of a couple's grisly murder in the woods.

The remains of a World War II munitions factory still haunt the fields of this Twin Cities suburb.

Derelict airplane bodies serve as both home and income for three Thai families.

This sprawling, formerly elite sporting complex in Amman, Jordan has become a local picnic spot.

Vietnam's feral abandoned water park offers access to a post-apocalyptic funscape, now with fewer crocodiles.

The grand marquee of this abandoned Hawaiian theater remembers the building's elegant past.

The historic tower houses of this nearly abandoned Greek town have been compared to the spikes on an iguana's back.

In the heart of Brigham Young's promised land sits a festering plot of industrial ruin that has been claimed by society's outcasts.

Once a popular hangout spot this huge mall was left to ruin after economic crash.

Walk the same tracks that once ferried Gilded Age aristocrats to their vacation destinations.

Rusting railcars and locomotive equipment fill this Ethiopian train graveyard.

Once a place of peaceful repose, this sanitarium now faces an uncertain future.