Simi Valley, California
House of the Book
A performance hall at the American Jewish University moonlights as a sci-fi film location set.
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Simi Valley, California
A performance hall at the American Jewish University moonlights as a sci-fi film location set.
Green Bank, West Virginia
This rural community has attracted both scientists and techno-refugees due to its federally-mandated lack of technology.
Bayard, Nebraska
This erect, phallic geological spire wasn't always named so domestically.
Williamstown, Kentucky
A theme park featuring a replica of Noah's Ark built to the measurements specified in the Bible.
Alderson, West Virginia
This abandoned school has had many lives since the early 1900s, and all of them doomed.
Pontiac, Michigan
What was once the largest NFL stadium.
Chicago, Illinois
A theater sits abandoned on Roosevelt Road, once majestic in splendor, now majestic in decay.
Whittier, Alaska
This WWII-era military installation once held an entire city within its walls - now, its walls are falling down.
Des Plaines, Illinois
Despite its name, this fast food museum is actually a replica of the ninth McDonald's store.
San Bernardino, California
Where NASA's satellites and rovers phone home.
Marfa, Texas
Minimalist modern art on a repurposed military base in rural Texas.
Madeira Beach, Florida
Visitors flock to see this church tower's unintended feature: It happens to resemble a giant chicken from multiple points of view.
Brooklyn, New York
Empty, but not abandoned, this cavernous Brooklyn loading dock was once considered the largest individual building in the world.
Talkeetna, Alaska
This whimsical stacked cabin looks like something out of a children's book.
San Angelo, Texas
The end of times arrives, at least for the fish in the O.C. Fisher Reservoir.
Seattle, Washington
A house filled to the brim with oddities and curiosities.
Daggett, California
Decommissioned experimental solar facilities that pioneered solar energy technology.
Hinckley, Utah
A shady solar power system that couldn't hold up to the harsh desert conditions.
Mountain View, California
One of the largest free-standing structures ever built, this dirigible hangar is now simply a giant skeleton.
Beatty, Nevada
Twelve plaster figures inspired by da Vinci's famed painting haunt the desert landscape above a real-life ghost town.
Chicago, Illinois
The palatial McDonald's that inspired Wesley Willis.
Milledgeville, Georgia
One of the largest-ever mental hospitals now sits abandoned, surrounded by 25,000 unmarked graves.
Newark, California
From the sky, a kaleidoscope of color brightens the grey landscape of the San Francisco Bay.
Mt. Jewett, Pennsylvania
Once the "Eighth Wonder of the World," this iron railroad bridge was decimated by a tornado.