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The remains of a deserted 1800s farming community can be found in Little River State Park.

A short hike into the mountainside forest reveals a decaying 1890s town.

A well-preserved Ancestral Puebloan ruin tucked beneath a desert cliff.

This crumbling UFO is one of only a few remaining "moveable ski chalets" of its kind.

A key producer of charcoal iron in the early 1800s, the structure still stands today.

Despite being burnt down multiple times, the ruins of this South Carolina church are still standing.

Despite repeated attempts to make it work, this former mining town is now nothing but dust and memories.

The location of Puerto Rico's first water bottling plant, thanks to a collaboration between Mother Nature and technology.

An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.

A haunted hot springs hotel that went from healing retreat to asylum before it was restored.

Tucked away on an empty wooded lot in suburban Oklahoma City lie the remnants of an abandoned circus camp.

An abandoned relic of the city's failed experiment with below ground transit.

The remnants of an early American attempt at missile defense.

The old Route 66 town straddling Texas and New Mexico died along with the Main Street of America.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

This road in the Great Smoky Mountains was supposed to assuage a displaced community, but ended up a $52 million dead end.

Hidden in plain sight on the Hudson River is an abandoned train station where nature has taken over.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

The abandoned remnants of a little sanctuary for world peace that fell into disrepair.

This amazingly preserved Gold Rush town is a historian's dream.

This abandoned prison castle has become an imposing gallery of graffiti art.

Instead of becoming a power plant, this abandoned complex became a massive letdown.

A Beaux-Arts triumph rises from decades of decay to become the heart of a new innovation district.

The haunting "Hell House Altar" is one of the few remnants of an abandoned college that has been a magnet for local legends.