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A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

A gothic palace of endless stalagmites and pseudoscorpions waits within one of the world's most beautiful caves.

The location along the shores of the Great Salt Lake of what was once called, "The Coney Island of the West", now sits barren due to arson and time.

This geothermal hot spring hides beneath a slowly growing mineral dome.

Despite sitting firmly in the global cradle of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, this Hare Krishna temple is host to one of the largest color festivals outside India.

A (slightly) grownup take on the classic retro arcade.

A colorful architectural gem in Seattle’s uniquely modern Central Library.

This mouldering abandoned mental hospital was once a center for progressive healing.

One of the largest-ever mental hospitals now sits abandoned, surrounded by 25,000 unmarked graves.

The loneliest island in New York.

The name of this famed hospital was once a byword for the horrors of medical and psychiatric care.

Hellam Township is reputed to feature seven remote gates, which when passed through in the right order, open an entrance to hell.

Underground tunnels remain beneath this abandoned mental asylum.

St. Mary's Asylum was isolated and abandoned before being converted into a Bed and Breakfast.

An abandoned asylum where patients have been forgotten but their possessions remain.

A particularly creepy abandoned hospital that sparks interest for lovers of the supernatural.

This abandoned asylum was once a state of the art facility before devolving into one of the most deadly mental institutions in American history.

An abandoned 1920s school with a mysterious history.

Ain't no party like a ghost town party.

An abandoned village that doubled as "The Hunger Games"' post-apocalyptic wasteland is up for grabs.

An abandoned asylum once on the cutting edge of lobotomies may be reborn as a Christian college.

A desert ghost town—occupied for only 12 years—was once home to more than 500 silver mines.

The final remnant of the Arkansas zinc industry is this historically protected ghost town.

The ghost town that ended up on Ebay.