Clarence, Missouri
Lyle Van Houten's Automotive Museum
This pristinely abandoned filling station on the edge of a graveyard is populated solely by unsettling mannequins.
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Clarence, Missouri
This pristinely abandoned filling station on the edge of a graveyard is populated solely by unsettling mannequins.
Carp Lake, Michigan
During WWII the U.S. Navy conducted primitive drone strikes on this Lake Michigan lighthouse.
Ishpeming, Michigan
Egyptian Revival obelisks still rise over the old mine shafts.
Washington, D.C.
This forgotten boat elevator was an engineering marvel in its heyday.
Jadwin, Missouri
Once an ambitious nature spa, these forest ruins now provide a serene monument to failure.
St. Louis, Missouri
An abandoned factory along the Mississippi coated by a giant mural.
Bonne Terre, Missouri
A museum dedicated to man's boldest venture.
Kaohsiung City, Taiwan
The world’s largest work of glass art hides in this stunning Taiwanese subway station.
Santo André, Brazil
The remains of a British railway rusting in the jungle mist of a Brazilian mountainside.
Budapest, Hungary
The abandoned "Red Star Train Graveyard" is the final rusting place for precious artifacts of train history.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.
St. Louis, Missouri
A chessmaster's dream destination.
Leadore, Idaho
A few dilapidated structures are all that remain of this deserted former silver mining town.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
With 3,000 bikes on display, the world's largest bicycle museum includes some famous rarities.
Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands
This abandoned radar site is slowly being taken back by the jungle, its mission cut short by the end of the Cold War.
Cloquet, Minnesota
The famed architect designed this Minnesota gas station of the future with a lookout tower.
Datong, China
A fifth-century temple improbably built into the side of a cliff.
New York, New York
This abandoned subway station beneath the Waldorf-Astoria hotel is allegedly used to secretly transport presidents.
Breezewood, Pennsylvania
An abandoned stretch of highway, deteriorating next to the operational one.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
This lab's maddening silence is good for business but bad for sanity.
Wamego, Kansas
During the 1990's nearly all of the world's LSD is thought to have come from the operators of the lab once located in this missile silo.