Concord, North Carolina
The Stonewall Jackson Manual Training and Industrial School
The cruel trial of a 13-year-old boy inspired the creation of this now abandoned reformatory.
Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Concord, North Carolina
The cruel trial of a 13-year-old boy inspired the creation of this now abandoned reformatory.
Chiusdino, Italy
These gutted monastery ruins still stand proudly in the middle of the Italian countryside.
Shelton, Washington
The second tallest railway trestle bridge in America.
Liepāja, Latvia
These crumbling Latvian forts make for some haunting seaside ruins.
Grand Rapids, Michigan
One lonely, modern pyramid has gone from corporate think tank to deserted boondoggle.
Pecos, New Mexico
Despite time, colonization, and the brutal New Mexican heat, these Pueblo ruins still stand.
Monkton, Maryland
This English-inspired Maryland garden is home to acres of opulent plant life including bushes shaped into an entire fox hunt.
Boulogne-Billancourt, France
This crumbling, graffiti-covered mansion sits tantalizingly within reach of the proletariat who frequent a public park.
York, Maine
New England's tallest light house stands on an island with a history of cannibalism and death.
Laval, Québec
This haunted corpse of a drive-in is now a graffiti-covered ruin.
Magelang, Indonesia
This massive chapel in the middle of the Indonesian forest is both haunting and fowl.
Saint-Chrysostome, Québec
With the chapel itself being left to moulder, the cemetery of this abandoned church might be the freshest part.
Mount Bethel, Pennsylvania
This huge, disused viaduct is now a crumbling concrete underworld of covered in years of graffiti.
Oregon City, Oregon
This Oregon farm is dedicated to teaching people the professional art of tree climbing.
Wellesley Island, New York
This tiny little island has, as the name says, just enough room for its single house.
East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania
This abandoned Poconos resort is haunted by a history of kitschy romance and a violent fugitive.
José María Morelos, Mexico
Cave where bat-eating snakes hang down from the ceiling.
Boston, Massachusetts
Site of a famous 19th-century transcendentalist utopian community, now abandoned.
Italy
According to the local folklore, the myriad colors of this lake are the result of a lovelorn wizard's blunder.
Trier, Germany
The last bastion of Roman presence north of the Alps looms over a German town.
Iceland
This volcanic cave lake is essentially hard proof that Iceland is the most magical place on Earth.
Sweden
Once the nail factory shut its doors, this Swedish factory town was abandoned, leaving behind a modern ghost town.
Mountain View, California
One of the largest free-standing structures ever built, this dirigible hangar is now simply a giant skeleton.
Oulu, Finland
The grandest stage for the world's foremost masters of invisible instruments.