Abandoned in the United States

The oldest institution of higher education in Wisconsin and the first to admit women.

The ruins of Illinois's first state penitentiary, and former Federal Military Prison, from 1833.

A popular East Bay hiking trail houses the ruins of a sanitarium that was destroyed in a blaze 50 years ago.

The forest has reclaimed nearly everything—streets included—from this failed Pennsylvania "City of Heaven" that was once deeded directly to God.

Collapsed charcoal kilns in the Spring Mountains of southern Nevada.

The most easily accessible intact vertical mine shaft structure remaining in the Red Mountain Mining District.

An 1857 brewery on the banks Mississippi River, now just a ruin with no roof, no windows and only one corner of the building still standing.

From an earlier era, a small community was established and was prosperous but drifted away, leaving only the bank vault behind.

Abandoned 37.5' diameter rusted metal sphere sitting in the woods.

In a beautiful open space on the north side of the Palmer Divide sits one solitary 19th-century gravestone in a copse of trees.

Crumbled shell of one of the oldest buildings in Virginia.

A rock and sand industrial site returns to its natural habitat.

The oldest flagstone charcoal kiln in New England serves as a reminder of the importance of land conservation and sustainability.

One of “America’s Most Endangered Historic Places” is a building shaped like a giant turtle.

Rusting hulk stands in testament to the Keweenaw Peninsula’s rich history of copper mining.

It could once load ships with tons of coal in an hour before its closing in 1952.