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Decades after testing the polio vaccine on unwitting patients, this historic mental hospital sits in ruin.

Collapsing castle on the Hudson river was once the storage site of military surplus business.

This old cement mine has been used as everything from a mushroom farm to a recording studio.

Naturally formed white marble arch housed in an abandoned marble quarry from the 1800s.

These dramatic cola-colored falls have appeared in a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and a song by Sufjan Stevens.

Rare recess caves fill this unbelievably beautiful Ohio park.

A decaying building marks the site associated with Emmett Till's brutal 1955 murder, which helped sparking the civil rights movement.

High in the Sacramento Mountains, a facility dedicated to studying the sun.

From overly ambitious (and eventually abandoned) atomic dream to bustling office park.

Costumed elves and mountain bikers co-exist peacefully at this abandoned Christmas-themed adventure park.

This enormous abandoned factory is now a makeshift graffiti gallery.

This abandoned radar station from the Cold War era now only broadcasts a seriously ominous air of isolation.

One of the most scenic falls in Massachusetts has a history of death and grim legend.

This narrow canyon has been carved by the river over thousands of years into spectacular and curious forms.

Toxic waste disaster that founded the Superfund program.

A religious-themed park filled with folk art to bring biblical stories to life that fell into disrepair and now being restored.

A tiny islet just off Long Island offers a wealth of infectious curiosities.

This picturesque Victorian ghost town was once a thriving mill community.

A stunning, two-tiered waterfall made famous by poets, artists and the legend of a ghost dog.

One of the few Cold War-era bases with many of its original structures still standing.

The home of a former Minor League baseball team that beat Joe DiMaggio's New York Yankees in 1949.

This former factory has deep ties to rubber production in Akron.

After the nearby mercury mine shut down, this town was abandoned and declared a Superfund site.

In the early 1900s, hundreds of Black Americans found opportunity in this now-abandoned rural community.