Berlin, Maryland
Assateague Island
The land is home to swimming ponies and a legendary 18th-century treasure.
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Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Berlin, Maryland
The land is home to swimming ponies and a legendary 18th-century treasure.
Malindi, Kenya
Abandoned city hidden from the world by tropical forest and isolation on the coast of Kenya.
Petra District, Jordan
An ancient capital city that dates back 3,000 years and harbors many surprises.
Siem Reap, Cambodia
A battle between nature and architecture in the Cambodian jungle.
Siem Reap, Cambodia
Hoax, mistake, or evidence of dinosaurs in human times?
Tamarugal, Chile
Towns with a resource known as "white gold," valuable enough to fight a war over, now stand ghostly and empty.
Bolivia
On the outskirts of a desert trading village high on the Andean plain, steel giants have been destroyed by salt winds.
Cleveland, Ohio
The angel of death appears to weep black tears at this grave marker.
Prypiat, Ukraine
The ghost town left by the worst nuclear disaster of all time is being taken over by nature and urban explorers.
Tonopah, Nevada
There's nothing creepier than a cemetery next to a clown motel.
Preston, Connecticut
Underground tunnels remain beneath this abandoned mental asylum.
Stannington, England
St. Mary's Asylum was isolated and abandoned before being converted into a Bed and Breakfast.
Menston, England
Once a farm where patients tilled the soil, this asylum lost its workforce when overmedicating became common practice.
Whittingham, England
This hospital once pioneered the use of electroencephalograms, but fell into maltreatment, abuse, and eventual abandonment.
Weston, West Virginia
A particularly creepy abandoned hospital that sparks interest for lovers of the supernatural.
Brentwood, New York
A formerly abandoned mental institute, now back in business.
Athens, Ohio
An abandoned asylum incorporated into a college campus.
Denbigh, Wales
The decaying ruins of Wales' first asylum for the mentally ill.
Danvers, Massachusetts
The inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft's horror stories and Batman's Arkham Asylum is now a condominium complex.
Coquitlam, British Columbia
Historic psychiatric asylum and most-filmed location in the Great White North.
Moundsville, West Virginia
Beyond the usual stories that attend old prisons, this one has deep bloody undercurrents.
Staten Island, New York
The haunting, dilapidated remains of a former poorhouse on Staten Island's Greenbelt.
Odesa, Ukraine
The largest catacomb system in the world.
Los Angeles, California
Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.