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Urban Explorer from Maryland. I have personally explored and found roughly 150-200 abandoned places in MD, VA, WV, and DC.

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Empty houses of Gilman, Co.

Red Cliff, Colorado

Gilman

Once an unstoppable source of gold and silver, this town came to a grinding stop when the groundwater proved deadly.

Bomber wreckage and sweeping views.

Bellvue, Colorado

B-17 Bomber Crash Site

The wreckage of a World War II bomber is hidden high in the Colorado wilderness.

The Nevadaville Masonic Lodge, built in 1879.

Central City, Colorado

Nevadaville Ghost Town

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

Gold Camp Road Tunnels

Colorado Springs, Colorado

Old Gold Camp Road Tunnels

The haunted reputation of these abandoned Colorado train tunnels is probably not helped by the terrifying spiked fence.

The Ludlow Ghost Town

Trinidad, Colorado

Ludlow Massacre Site

The scene of one of the darkest moments in American labor history has been left essentially untouched since the tragedy.

Blue Mustang

Denver, Colorado

Blue Mustang

The Denver airport is guarded by a 32-foot-tall sculpture of a demonic horse.

Night sky over the Ashcroft Hotel

Aspen, Colorado

Ashcroft Townsite

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.

Runoff Collection Pond from Mine Tailings in Leadville Mining District.

Leadville, Colorado

Leadville's Abandoned Silver Mine

Abandoned silver mine strewn with wrecked and twisted structures.

Mine on Vindicator Valley Trail

Cripple Creek, Colorado

Vindicator Valley Trail

This Colorado hiking trail provides a small gold mine of abandoned gold mines.

Rainbow Falls

Manitou Springs, Colorado

Rainbow Falls

Hidden beneath a bridge, this waterfall is known for the large amounts of graffiti painted on its base.

Canyons of the Ancients

Dolores, Colorado

Canyons of the Ancients

A breathtaking array of ancient Pueblo structures and artifacts counterintuitively preserved by neglect.

Fresh snow accentuates a warm ancient Puebloan city.

Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado

Mesa Verde National Park

The ancient dwellings of the Puebloans, located in the cliffs of majestic mesas.

Figure of Tor Johnson, from Plan 9 From Outer Space

Monroeville, Pennsylvania

The Living Dead Museum

This little museum in the town where zombies were born celebrates the living dead.

The pagoda, now a private residence

Silver Spring, Maryland

National Park Seminary

A girls' boarding school inspired by the Chicago World's Fair, once abandoned, now restored to strange and scenic glory.

These ships were used as houseboats during the Great Depression.

Baltimore, Maryland

Curtis Creek Ship Graveyard

Ship skeletons haunt Baltimore's waterways.

Looking down the alley

Baltimore, Maryland

Graffiti Alley

A hidden alley in urban Baltimore is a haven for graffiti artists.

The Sporn plant in October, 2014, a few months before it closed.

New Haven, West Virginia

Philip Sporn Mine

This abandoned mine and power plant was built atop land once given to Revolutionary War soldiers.

A view of the two properties from the other side of the Tygart River.

Grafton, West Virginia

B&O Railroad Station and Willard Hotel

Two gems of Beaux Arts architecture that have been sitting vacant for years.

Over 200 headstones made up the Red Ash Island.

Brooklyn, West Virginia

Red Ash Island Cemetery

The isolated final resting place for perished coal miners.

Tunnel entrance.

Salem, West Virginia

Brandy Gap Tunnel #2

This abandoned train tunnel has been the subject of countless ghost stories for years.

The company store that once supplied necessities to the workers of the Brooklyn Mine.

Fayetteville, West Virginia

Brooklyn Ruins

The remains of one of the last mining camps developed on the New River.

The monument overlooks the potomac river, where the first steamboat sailed

Shepherdstown, West Virginia

Birthplace of the Steamboat

A monument marks the location of the first successful steamboat demonstration.

This decaying structure once held the powerhouse for old Lock No. 19.

Washington, West Virginia

Abandoned Lock No. 19

One of the few surviving examples of the first lock and dam system built on the Ohio River.

Mummies of Philippi. (Virginia Wind)

Philippi, West Virginia

Mummies of Philippi

Two insane asylum bodies embalmed by an amateur.

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