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

This historic iron-working village is now a ghost town so immaculate that it looks as though it was recently built.

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

A desert ghost town—occupied for only 12 years—was once home to more than 500 silver mines.

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

Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.

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

Settled by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1859, this abandoned frontier town has appeared in several films.

A desert settlement founded and later abandoned by Hawaiian members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Utah's Skull Valley.

This massive stained-glass masterpiece is thought to be the largest Tiffany dome in existence.

A beloved Chicago music venue offering cold beer and lots of “Friendly."

Tables of secondhand books fill the inner courtyard of this 17th-century stock exchange.

The beloved home to all publications indie, erotic, and punky.

An atmospheric, medieval-themed book store hides in a 13th-century underground space.

This unconventional used book store was once in the news for the surprising act of burning books.

A bibliophile's heaven that contains hundreds of bookstores, offering over a third of secondhand books for sale in Tokyo.

With its vast selection of books, comics, and records, this nearly 70-year-old open-air market always rewards the patient browser.

Leaning shelves and books galore, this location is a book lover's utopia.

This once-derelict building is now one of the most beautiful bookstores in the world.

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

This small Catskills village has six independent bookstores and more bookshops than restaurants.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

Built following the War of 1812, this fort has withstood hurricanes for centuries.

A strange house built only at night, with rumored mystic inspiration.