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This elaborate Byzantine-style building was designed for a not-so-pretty purpose.

An abandoned castle owned and ignored by Masons carries a cursed history.

Secret Manor, a house full of legends, the least of which is the haunting of long-deceased ladies of pleasure.

An abandoned Gold Coast-era mansion once intended for the exiled ruler of Albania, who never arrived.

The bones of an old zoo crumbling in the shadow of a new one.

An abandoned aircraft sits submerged in a lake in the Alaska wilderness.

This abandoned amusement park was built on a site with a dark history.

Pop culture has helped to keep this iconic British building from being destroyed.

A series of five defunct panopticon prisons in Cuba.

This picturesque mansion has gone from opulent ruin to nature museum.

This disastrous New Jersey safari park saw animal attacks, escapes, and disease before being abandoned.

This Italianate Villa-style castle is pretty to look at, just keep off the private property.

A sturdy relic of Britain's once crucial gunpowder industry is now a haunting Cornish ruin.

Disney's abandoned animal island is now an overgrown ruin that was almost the coolest attraction ever.

A remarkably intact castle that once was the largest in Ireland.

This huge metal monument is slowly being stripped to its concrete skeleton.

This mountaintop beacon is only lit three times a year but shines like some kind of all-seeing eye.

Once swallowed by flood waters, this village has emerged as an eerie shadow of its former self.

Once America's longest-manned military fort, now an abandoned hulk.

The remains of a failed attempt at medieval nerdery are hidden deep in the woods of Virginia.

This Italian-style temple replica has been threatening to fall off the Irish coast for hundreds of years.

The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.

The inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft's horror stories and Batman's Arkham Asylum is now a condominium complex.

This abandoned Civil War fortress is slowly being swallowed by the waters of Lake Borgne.