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Collapsing castle on the Hudson river was once the storage site of military surplus business.

An Italian hillside ghost town.

An abandoned desert hamlet swallowed up by sand.

An abandoned whaling station on an active volcano offers hot springs in Antarctica, surrounded by ruined giants of industry.

The tangled roots of a giant banyan tree have fully reclaimed the ruins of this abandoned warehouse.

Once the most densely populated place in the world, this island is now a ghost town.

The remains of diamond fever taken over by the desert.

It seems that the residents of of this megalopolis suddenly vanished, but they were never actually there.

The vast chamber inside this abandoned cooling tower looks like something out of a sci-fi dystopia.

This abandoned fishing settlement may well be the greenest village in the world.

A book collector's dream, this Toronto bookstore has the world's first "Biblio-Mat," a random book vending machine.

One of Canada's most incredible rare book collections holds hundreds of thousands of gorgeous tomes that the general public can touch.

A 98-room castle in the middle of Toronto that bankrupted a 19th century electricity multimillionaire.

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

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

The ruined remains of a coal mining ghost town are hidden within the woods.

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

The graffitied ruins stand hidden within the Pennsylvania woods.

Over 100 concrete munitions bunkers are all that remain of a Pennsylvanian village seized by the US government.

This eerily well-preserved coal town was saved from destruction by a Sean Connery movie.

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

A modern ghost town whose inhabitants were driven away by the growth of nuclear power.

Once the "Eighth Wonder of the World," this iron railroad bridge was decimated by a tornado.

These beautiful ruins deep in the Pennsylvania woods are thought to have been a ski lodge or a speakeasy, but no one really knows.