Abandoned

This foolish Victorian sea fort was converted to a deluxe hotel.

Run by a eugenics advocate, this aging institution conducted secret radiation experiments sponsored by Quaker Oats.

Elephant seals and sea lions have turned the abandoned buildings on this island into their endangered love shack.

The inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft's horror stories and Batman's Arkham Asylum is now a condominium complex.

This Tennessee manse was built so opulent that the very utilities doomed it to fail.

This abandoned asylum was once a state of the art facility before devolving into one of the most deadly mental institutions in American history.

This tiny New Jersey village has lived many lives but seems determined to remain a ghost town.

A once crucial portion of the Long Island railroad still lays abandoned, waiting to be turned into an urban park.

The ruins of this Brazilian island prison still bear the scars of the bloody rebellion that closed it down.

Another of California's unused Cold War missile defense complexes has become a graffiti gallery.

This real life asylum of horrors is now an abandoned ruin that hides the unbreakable code to one patient's insanity.

This Italian-style temple replica has been threatening to fall off the Irish coast for hundreds of years.

Despite finally receiving electricity in 1970, this tiny town is now deserted.

This abandoned plantation was once witness to an eclipse that proved Einstein's theory of relativity.