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An Industrial Revolution-era public work that purified water using nothing but sand.

The deserted railroad town had a last gasp as a ghost town attraction before being abandoned for good.

Remains of a historic fountain that was mysteriously lost in the demolition of a D.C. traffic circle.

Former self-sufficient mental institution now a planned community.

The maximum security facility was once thought to have "the bloodiest 47 acres in America."

The ruins of this Alaska gold mine form a gorgeous ghost town.

Explore the dark underground corridors of this graffiti-covered former military fortification.

This throwback amusement park is home to rides and unique storybook figures from the past.

An abandoned Depression-era zoo hidden just off the highway.

This mining town boomed in the Atomic Age when uranium was gold, only to be abandoned when the industry collapsed.

This California estate was either haunted by ghosts or the Marx brothers.

This WWII-era military installation once held an entire city within its walls - now, its walls are falling down.

A giant, Gilded Age mansion that once belonged to the beer baron of Milwaukee.

This fort down the Potomac from Washington, D.C. was once the only defensive fort protecting the capital.

The short-lived railroad town in central Oregon has been abandoned since the 1930s.

The concrete shell of an industry giant remains as a playground for graffiti artists, auto scrappers, and paintball warriors.

The Virginia home of one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence is being preserved with a unique glass facade.

Cold War intelligence agents monitored communist embassies from an attic in a former pigeon coop.

Ghost stories surrounded this “castle,” the only structure from a huge mansion that was never built.

Government testing at the asylum briefly explored using marijuana as a "truth serum" on Nazi prisoners of war.

Once the supplier for noteworthy projects like the National Cathedral, this old brickworks now lies abandoned.

What was once the largest NFL stadium.

An abandoned early-20th-century boomtown sits within the Calico Rock city limits.

This deserted Gold Rush town is home to a Masonic lodge that, strangely enough, still holds meetings.