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An abandoned relic of the city's failed experiment with below ground transit.

The old Route 66 town straddling Texas and New Mexico died along with the Main Street of America.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

This road in the Great Smoky Mountains was supposed to assuage a displaced community, but ended up a $52 million dead end.

Hidden in plain sight on the Hudson River is an abandoned train station where nature has taken over.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

This abandoned prison castle has become an imposing gallery of graffiti art.

This amazingly preserved Gold Rush town is a historian's dream.

A Beaux-Arts triumph rises from decades of decay to become the heart of a new innovation district.

The former locus of Boston's high culture has been shuttered and buried for over 70 years.

During the 1990's nearly all of the world's LSD is thought to have come from the operators of the lab once located in this missile silo.

A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.

This former tuberculosis research hospital endeavored to cure the dreaded disease with fresh air and positive attitudes.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

See just what life was like in a 19th-century prospecting town.

The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.

The remains of an idyllic small town built for the film 'Big Fish' still stand around a rundown main street.

This deceptively salty lake looks like blushing pink lemonade.

A well-preserved network of cavernous tunnels have spent silent centuries removing Toronto's waste.

An ancient instrument used to measure the waters of the Nile so Egyptian farmers would know whether to expect famine or flood.

Three bridges and one giant canyon make up this fantastic Spanish settlement.

This is not only one of the oldest collections in Europe, but also possibly the most beautiful.

A miscalculation turns a very shallow freshwater lake into a very deep saltwater lake.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.