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Ky Thornley

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Inside the tunnel

Clinton, Massachusetts

Clinton Tunnel

This railroad tunnel was once the longest in Massachusetts.

VW Slug Bug Ranch
Permanently Closed

Amarillo, Texas

VW Slug Bug Ranch

A small car graveyard sits in the shadow of the famous Cadillac Ranch.

Cell blocks at the Wyoming Frontier Prison Museum.

Rawlins, Wyoming

Wyoming Frontier Prison Museum

This prison-turned-museum is a remnant of the Old West's grizzly, violent past.

The bathhouse on the Suwanee River.

White Springs, Florida

White Sulfur Springs Ruins

The abandoned bathhouse is all that remains of the hot springs considered Florida's original tourist attraction.

Brickyard structures
Permanently Closed

Washington, D.C.

United Brick Corporation Ruins

Once the supplier for noteworthy projects like the National Cathedral, this old brickworks now lies abandoned.

The main concourse. (Wikimedia Commons)

Buffalo, New York

Buffalo Central Terminal

Ruins of a once-prized railroad station in New York.

Looking out towards the Hungarian Embassy.

Washington, D.C.

Peirce Mill Spy Station

Cold War intelligence agents monitored communist embassies from an attic in a former pigeon coop.

Desert landscape encroaching.

Tucson, Arizona

Lisa Frank Factory

Despite a recent paint job, the factory still sits empty.

Abandoned Abundant Life Christian Center

Detroit, Michigan

Abandoned Abundant Life Christian Center

An ornate Detroit church, left empty and ravaged by time.

Walnut Street

Calico Rock, Arkansas

Peppersauce Ghost Town

An abandoned early-20th-century boomtown sits within the Calico Rock city limits.

Abandoned Dennings Point Brickworks
Permanently Closed

Beacon, New York

Dennings Point Ruins

This abandoned factory on the Hudson River once churned out a million bricks a week.

Old railroad tunnel on upper part of Iron Goat Trail.

Leavenworth, Washington

Iron Goat Trail

The site of the Wellington avalanche, one of the America's worst railroad disasters.

Ruins of The Hampton Springs Hotel

Perry, Florida

Ruins of The Hampton Springs Hotel

The ruins of a Florida miracle spring resort make it seem like a wonder that this was ever a health spa.

The Abandoned Rockaway Beach Branch of the Long Island Railroad

Queens, New York

The Abandoned Rockaway Beach Branch of the Long Island Railroad

A once crucial portion of the Long Island railroad still lays abandoned, waiting to be turned into an urban park.

Room 32 at the Alta Cienega Motel, the Jim Morrison Room.
Permanently Closed

West Hollywood, California

Jim Morrison Hotel Room

Room 32 of the Alta Cienega Motel has grown into a shrine to the Lizard King.

Eastern Cemetery

Louisville, Kentucky

Eastern Cemetery

This abandoned cemetery has a dark past of bodies buried over bodies.

16th Street Train Station

Oakland, California

16th Street Train Station

A crumbling Beaux Arts monument to the Bay Area's age of rail.

Calvary Cemetery

Queens, New York

Calvary Cemetery

Holding the most bodies of any cemetery in the United States.

Once the home of the Southwestern High School Prospectors.
Permanently Closed

Detroit, Michigan

Southwestern High School

This empty Detroit high school was too expensive to maintain or destroy.

Ruins of Chapman Beverley Mill

Broad Run, Virginia

Ruins of the Chapman Beverley Mill

This pre-Revolutionary War grist mill ground corn and flour for soldiers in seven American wars.

Former Post Office.

San Bernardino County, California

Kelso Ghost Town

The abandoned train depot now doubles as a well-placed rest stop for those who take the road less traveled.

Holt House in November, 2008.

Washington, D.C.

Holt House

There's a crumbling old mansion inside the Smithsonian National Zoo.

Abandoned Comet Diner
Permanently Closed

Hartford, Connecticut

Abandoned Comet Diner

An iconic steel and chrome diner from the 1940s left empty for nearly 20 years is in danger of being demolished.

It was started in 1901 as a private school.
Permanently Closed

Alderson, West Virginia

Alderson Academy

This abandoned school has had many lives since the early 1900s, and all of them doomed.

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