Staten Island, New York
Remains of Fort Wadsworth
Once America's longest-manned military fort, now an abandoned hulk.
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Staten Island, New York
Once America's longest-manned military fort, now an abandoned hulk.
Aleutians West, Alaska
The site of one of Japan's very few American occupations during World War II still holds the relics of a roundly disastrous campaign.
Venice, Italy
This abandoned island off the Venetian coast has been a radical monastery, a political prison, and a secret Nazi base.
England
No one is sure what to do with this WWII shipwreck that sits at the bottom of the Thames, still loaded with tons of explosives.
Boa Vista, Cabo Verde
Once a bustling fishing village and trading post, today these Cape Verde ruins provide a home only for seabirds and turtles.
Seaview, England
This foolish Victorian sea fort was converted to a deluxe hotel.
Priest Lake, Idaho
This historic Idaho island is home to a strange timeshare museum, a homemade mini-golf course, and an outhouse named Aunt Fanny.
Fall River, Massachusetts
Enjoy an overnight at an old haunted B&B site of the Borden family murders.
New Bedford, Massachusetts
For 20 years, this whale skeleton has been slowly dripping oil on the floor of the museum where it hangs.
Beverly Hills, California
Stroll the grounds built by murder, suicide, and dirty oil money at one of Hollywood's most filmed mansions.
Casa Grande, Arizona
Rumor had it that these concrete crosses scattered across the Arizona scrubland helped align spy satellites. (They didn’t.)
Red Cliff, Colorado
Once an unstoppable source of gold and silver, this town came to a grinding stop when the groundwater proved deadly.
Leadville, Colorado
At one time this small mining village was the highest town in America but now it sits abandoned while the mine churns on.
Hillsboro, New Mexico
Crumbling remnants of what was once a booming town full of silver.
Lincoln, New Mexico
The site of Billy the Kid’s most famous escape and the end to the Lincoln County War.
Mills, New Mexico
Adobe ruins punctuate the beauty of an 800 foot canyon carved by the Canadian River.
Trinidad, Colorado
The scene of one of the darkest moments in American labor history has been left essentially untouched since the tragedy.
Farmington, New Mexico
Seemingly grown on some other world, these New Mexico rock formations look like a disused science fiction set.
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Only museum dedicated to women pilots, with personal artifacts from Amelia Earhart and other aviatrixes.
Magelang, Indonesia
This massive chapel in the middle of the Indonesian forest is both haunting and fowl.
Trenton, New Jersey
One of New Jersey's oldest surviving buildings still bears the mark of our former British overlords.
Skørping, Denmark
This Danish park has celebrated the American independence day since 1912.
Casa Grande, Arizona
An abandoned facility that has become a place of ritualistic satanic worship, or so rumor has it.
Chicago, Illinois
First planned industrial community in the United States.