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Buildings that dynamite couldn't bring down were abandoned because of bathroom issues.

This sanitorium-turned-asylum-turned-prison is now abandoned and a hotspot for enjoyers of the paranormal.

The lasting remains of the region's once booming cement industry.

Abandoned blast furnaces are an enduring reminder of Scranton's once booming iron business.

An underground blaze turned this village into a ghost town.

Frank Lloyd Wright built this suburban synagogue late in life, but it stands among his most iconic masterpieces.

Hidden in the hills of Western Pennsylvania lies one of the best-kept ghost towns in America that you can legally visit.

A glittering Thai Buddhist temple in suburban Pennsylvania.

This huge, disused viaduct is now a crumbling concrete underworld of covered in years of graffiti.

This icon of the Atomic Age now lays dormant.

These disused steel furnaces are now haunting ruins that may one day be a national park.

The remains of a community that was forced to move for a dam that never materialized still rot in this Pennsylvania park.

This church in Pittsburgh is home to the largest collection of religious relics in North America.

This family of wooden moose statues have become local celebrities in their hometown.

The largest collection of Frazetta originals in the world.

This Art Deco service station has been providing tune-ups and turning heads for close to a century.

A museum of anything and everything Stooge.

North America’s largest collection of horological devices and home to a colossal clock with a dizzying array of features.

The sounds of the world's largest fully functioning pipe organ dazzle shoppers at a Philadelphia Macy's.

The largest university building in the West is a gothic masterpiece containing dozens of theme rooms based on different countries.

The abandoned coal loading dock is a canvas for unsanctioned art.

The graffitied ruins stand hidden within the Pennsylvania woods.

This public space is speckled with the eerie remnants of a defunct amusement park.

This might just be the TARDIS of bookstores.