Versailles, Kentucky
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This modern castle sat empty for decades before a fire inspired its builders to complete its luxury halls.
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Versailles, Kentucky
This modern castle sat empty for decades before a fire inspired its builders to complete its luxury halls.
Detroit, Michigan
A Beaux-Arts triumph rises from decades of decay to become the heart of a new innovation district.
Washington, D.C.
A historic estate packed with George Washington's heirlooms, and its own nuclear bunker.
Washington, D.C.
This leafy estate is worth $18 million and is so grand it has two mailing addresses.
Flemington, New Jersey
One of the world's largest model railroads is a mind-boggling achievement.
Rutland, Massachusetts
The ruins of a Massachusetts prison farm can still be found crumbling the woods of a state park.
Yellville, Arkansas
The final remnant of the Arkansas zinc industry is this historically protected ghost town.
Preston, Connecticut
Underground tunnels remain beneath this abandoned mental asylum.
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
The internal railway of one of the biggest steel plants in America has been transformed into a linear park with unique industrial views.
Chloride, Arizona
All of the 20 occupied houses in this mostly abandoned town feature some curious display of junk art.
Cresco, Pennsylvania
These beautiful ruins deep in the Pennsylvania woods are thought to have been a ski lodge or a speakeasy, but no one really knows.
Cave City, Kentucky
An abandoned theme park with a strange and tumultuous past.
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago's North Park Village was once the largest municipal sanatorium in the country.
East Haddam, Connecticut
Quirky castle designed by the American actor best known for portraying Sherlock Holmes on stage.
Barboursville, Virginia
The ruins of this Thomas-Jefferson-designed mansion have been left to crumble since the Christmas Day they burnt down.
Winthrop, Washington
Hundreds of hopeful gold miners came here to get rich, but only two years later the small town was deserted.
Kansas City, Missouri
This abandoned prison castle has become an imposing gallery of graffiti art.
Aspen, Colorado
Silver in the hills led to the speedy creation of this boom town and a lack of it saw the town abandoned nearly as quickly.
Allenwood, Pennsylvania
Over 100 concrete munitions bunkers are all that remain of a Pennsylvanian village seized by the US government.
La Grande, Oregon
A haunted hot springs hotel that went from healing retreat to asylum before it was restored.
Moundsville, West Virginia
Beyond the usual stories that attend old prisons, this one has deep bloody undercurrents.
Jerome, Arizona
On the outskirts of a reborn ghost town, a decaying post office remembers the bad old days.
Ohiopyle, Pennsylvania
The house that Frank Lloyd Wright "(shook) out of his sleeve at will" at the age of 86.
Nanticoke, Pennsylvania
Buildings that dynamite couldn't bring down were abandoned because of bathroom issues.