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Ruins

Permanently Closed

Phoenix Trotting Park

Goodyear, Arizona

Phoenix Trotting Park

This abandoned horse racing track was an exercise in hubris from its inception.

Close up of the condition of the fleet.

Benicia, California

Suisun Bay Ghost Fleet

The rusting remains of the largest assembled WWII fleet on the West Coast.

Meknes, Morocco

Volubilis Archaeological Site

Mosaics, storks, and brothels—this ancient city has it all.

Damiya Dolmen Field

Damiya Dolmen Field

This ancient stone necropolis is in danger of disappearing.

Gran Pajaten today.

Mariscal Cáceres Province, Peru

Gran Pajaten

These delicate ruins need more tourists to keep them from fading away.

Cruden Bay, Scotland

New Slains Castle Ruins

The remains of a grand castle that may have inspired Bram Stoker's Dracula.

Permanently Closed

One entrance to the underground city.

Dixia Cheng - Beijing's Underground City

Beijing's expansive subterranean hiding spot now crumbles away as a tourist destination.

The Faceless Nuns

Faceless Nuns of the Torba Monastery

An unsettling painting of three faceless sisters that is surrounded by history and legend.

Fort Alexander

Fort Alexander

A man-made island fort that has housed soldiers, scientists, and ravers.

Overlook Mountain House: The Skeletal Remains of a Catskills Hotel That Still Welcomes Visitors

Kimberly Wadsworth October 30, 2013

The Becket Land Trust Historic Quarry and Forest

Becket, Massachusetts

Becket Land Trust Historic Quarry and Forest

Locals purchased this abandoned quarry in order to make sure it continues to be overgrown.

Over the last decade, the Untermyer Gardens Conservancy has undertaken restorations to the park—and its reputation.

Satanic Panic in America's Greatest Forgotten Garden

How Untermyer Park went from botanical wonder to devil's playground and back again.

Megan Roberts August 30, 2022

Brooklyn, New York

Sunset Park's 68th Precinct

I fought the law and the precinct caved in.

Newport, Rhode Island

Newport Tower

Mysterious stone tower featured in many alternative histories of the New World.

Wyndcliffe Mansion

Rhinebeck, New York

Wyndcliffe Mansion

What was once a trend-setting, phrase-coining icon of architectural splendor is now a rotting, forgotten hulk.

Frick's Lock and the Limerick Nuclear Power Plant

Pottstown, Pennsylvania

Frick's Lock

A modern ghost town whose inhabitants were driven away by the growth of nuclear power.

Rock, West Virginia

Lake Shawnee Amusement Park

This abandoned amusement park was built on a site with a dark history.

Woodstock, New York

Overlook Mountain House Ruins

A once grand hotel is being retaken by the wilderness it once capitalized on.