Places Edited by missingfilm

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

Locals purchased this abandoned quarry in order to make sure it continues to be overgrown.

What was once a trend-setting, phrase-coining icon of architectural splendor is now a rotting, forgotten hulk.

A popular European tradition makes its way to the states on one of America's most famous bridges.

This lighthouse was witness to the end of WWII hostilities and now collects creepy cairns.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

The haunting, dilapidated remains of a former poorhouse on Staten Island's Greenbelt.

The fastest transatlantic ocean liner sat abandoned in a Philadelphia shipyard for decades.

This palatial botanical garden is home to one of the largest pipe organs ever installed in a private residence, and a piece of Wood's cycad.

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

America's greatest forgotten garden and the former stomping grounds of Son of Sam.

Ant sculptures march up the side of what used to be an iconic spot in punk rock lore.

Beneath the mossy overgrowth covering this once-sprawling campus lies decades of history and the secrets that come with it.

A ruined mansion hidden in the woods of the Hudson Valley, home of a tragically doomed romance.

A wunderkammer hidden on the top floor of the Hartford statehouse.

A theatre built to house the rowdy Oxford graduation ceremonies became the stage for a debate about God's existence.

An underground magnet for ever-changing street art.

A library and shop devoted to the body, mortality, and bringing to light forgotten or neglected histories

One of only two commuter aerial tramways in the United States.

The "possessed" house that inspired "The Haunting in Connecticut" book and movie.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

The quaint little Vermont town played a quaint little Connecticut town in Tim Burton's "Beetlejuice."

Statue in Salem of the woman who starred as the witch Samantha in the sitcom "Bewitched."

Mass Grave of 48 colonists killed in a raid by Native Americans and the French in 1704.