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Elephant Car Wash
Permanently Closed

Seattle, Washington

Elephant Car Wash Sign

Now housed in a museum, this giant pink elephant stood in downtown Seattle for more than 60 years.

Gum Wall window ledge

Seattle, Washington

Gum Wall

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

Amazon Spheres from Doppler.

Seattle, Washington

Amazon Spheres

The tech giant built three enormous glass orbs in Seattle so employees could work inside a rainforest greenhouse.

Paw Paw Tunnel

Oldtown, Maryland

Paw Paw Tunnel

Despite violent work crews and massive delays this abandoned canal tunnel was built to last into the modern day.

Crozet Tunnel (Waynesboro portal)

Afton, Virginia

Crozet Tunnel

A railroad tunnel that, upon its completion, was considered one of the engineering marvels of the modern world.

DeJarnette Sanitarium.
Permanently Closed

Staunton, Virginia

Abandoned DeJarnette Sanitarium

A former mental hospital founded in the 1930s by a eugenicist who advocated for the forced sterilization of patients.

The front of Gunston Hall from the main entrance path.

Lorton, Virginia

George Mason's Gunston Hall

The former home of the man whose radical ideas changed the nation.

Antique furnishings, including a pressed tin ceiling, in dining room combine beautifully with Navajo and Hopi artwork.

Cameron, Arizona

Cameron Trading Post

More than a century old, this trading post resides in the Navajo Nation.

Model A and historic 66 signs

Kingman, Arizona

Hackberry General Store

Don't blink or you'll miss it.

Truxton Canyon Training School

Valentine, Arizona

Truxton Canyon Training School

The remains of a boarding school designed to forcibly assimilate Native American children.

Bridge and quay used in the shark attack scene.

Edgartown, Massachusetts

‘Jaws’ Bridge

The filming location of a shark attack in Steven Spielberg’s famous shark movie.

Aquinnah Cliffs

Aquinnah, Massachusetts

Aquinnah Cliffs

Colorful clay cliffs tower over an unofficial nudist beach on Martha's Vineyard.

John Brown's Fort as it appears today

Harpers Ferry, West Virginia

John Brown's Fort

The last holdout of a pre-Civil War rebel who took the matter of slavery into his own hands.

The Sign Above the Tunnel

Knoxville, Maryland

The Sign Above the Tunnel

This advertisement for talcum powder was painted on the rock face and has since defied removal.

Glade Creek Grist Mill

Danese, West Virginia

Glade Creek Grist Mill

This functioning mill was built in the 1970s using parts from several other West Virginia mills.

New River Gorge Bridge

Fayetteville, West Virginia

New River Gorge Bridge

One day a year it is legal to jump off of this astoundingly tall bridge that spans an Appalachian gorge.

Kaymoor Mines

Fayetteville, West Virginia

Kaymoor Mines

An abandoned coal mine reached by a steep hike.

Thurmond's Main Street. (LeahC/Atlas Obscura)

Thurmond, West Virginia

Thurmond, West Virginia

Once connected to the outside world by a single train track, this ghost town is looked after by the National Park Service.

The center of 19th-century camp life was this octagon-frame building, now turned into the present museum
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Scarbro, West Virginia

Whipple Company Store

Smack in the midst of coal country, this collection provides a peoples' history of Appalachian miners' heritage.

Bunny Man Bridge

Fairfax Station, Virginia

Bunny Man Bridge

This Virginia railway overpass is said to be haunted by a serial killer in a rabbit costume.

Exterior of prison buildings.

Lorton, Virginia

Lucy Burns Museum

Located at the former Lorton Prison the Lucy Burns Museum tells the story of the 91 year history of the prison including the dark chapter of its involvement in the women's suffrage movement.

Eckley Miners' Village

Weatherly, Pennsylvania

Eckley Miners' Village

This eerily well-preserved coal town was saved from destruction by a Sean Connery movie.

The ruins of the Pentecostal Holiness Church in Daniels, Maryland.

Ellicott City, Maryland

Daniels

An eerie, decaying ghost town destined to fade into the forest.

Big Mine Run Geyser

Ashland, Pennsylvania

Big Mine Run Geyser

The only geyser in the state of Pennsylvania is caused by pressure from an abandoned coal mine outside of the ghost town Centralia.

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