Jacksonville, Florida
Abandoned Annie Lytle Elementary School
Jacksonville's highways rendered this century-old grammar school unusable.
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Jacksonville, Florida
Jacksonville's highways rendered this century-old grammar school unusable.
Tampa, Florida
A gleaming white tower in ornate Indian style soars above the low-slung bungalows of north Tampa.
Marco Island, Florida
An abandoned vacation home spent a decade taking on legends. It's now taking on water.
Key West, Florida
The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.
Chiefland, Florida
A much more welcome kind of snowbird vacationer, manatees camp out in these springs every winter.
Koblenz, Germany
Every half hour the eye-rolling clock face sticks out its tongue to mock the good citizens of Koblenz.
Wiesbaden, Germany
The final resting place of the famed German pilot, the "Red Baron."
Völklingen, Germany
A former ironworks that was the first UNESCO industrial site.
Sulzbach, Germany
Germany has its very own Centralia, whose spark remains attributed to "spontaneous combustion."
Sankt Ingbert, Germany
This rock resembling a turned-up boot has become the symbol of St. Ingbert.
Zweibrücken, Germany
A university observatory dome painted to resemble the beloved 'Star Wars' droid.
Seffner, Florida
An octet of classic chrome trailers speared into the ground act as a tribute to the silver bullets of the open road.
St. Augustine, Florida
This curio museum seems like the type of place you might find a mogwai or a monkey's paw.
St. Augustine, Florida
Gutted airplanes slowly decay in a Florida field.
Orlando, Florida
The only runway directly into the magic kingdom has been closed since 1972, but it still sings to you if you drive fast enough.
Kissimmee, Florida
Once featuring over 60 miniature replicas of famous Chinese locations, the Splendid China theme park was completely abandoned and is now mostly rubble.
St. Augustine, Florida
The graves in Florida's oldest Black cemeteries are marked with shells, stones, and mementos of the deceased.
Sanford, Florida
This whimsical outsider art wall holds tiny treasures donated by the local community.
St. Augustine, Florida
Bronze footprints mark the path where a civil rights leader tried to march in peaceful protest before being knocked unconscious.
Vero Beach, Florida
This small museum concentrates on the juicy history of orange production in Florida.
New Smyrna Beach, Florida
Mariners once used this prehistoric landfill as a navigational landmark.
Pierson, Florida
This kitschy curio wonderland is full of fake animals, teak tables, and a cacophony of random bric-a-brac.
Ormond Beach, Florida
A replica of one of the more than 15,000 civilian lookout towers that lined the U.S. coast during World War II.
Orlando, Florida
Remarkably realistic Florida shoal bass "swim" inside this large globoid sculpture.