Washington, D.C.
The Dupont Underground
Long-abandoned trolley tunnels just a mile away from the White House are turning into an art space.
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Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Washington, D.C.
Long-abandoned trolley tunnels just a mile away from the White House are turning into an art space.
Glen Cove, New York
The abandoned grounds and derelict greenhouses of this once-magnificent Edwardian estate are now a nature preserve open for exploration.
Arcadia, Oklahoma
Along the historic Mother Road is an old gas station with a secret counterfeiting past.
Chesterfield, New Hampshire
Ruins of the elaborate house where the enigmatic costume designer threw glamorous parties for New York's theatrical elite.
Milledgeville, Georgia
One of the largest-ever mental hospitals now sits abandoned, surrounded by 25,000 unmarked graves.
Salinas, California
Once America’s most beautiful army base, this abandoned military fort on the coast of Monterey Bay has been left to the elements.
San Jon, New Mexico
The old Route 66 town straddling Texas and New Mexico died along with the Main Street of America.
Washington, D.C.
A derelict bit of transportation infrastructure hidden in the woods.
Bluff, Utah
A well-preserved Ancestral Puebloan ruin tucked beneath a desert cliff.
Baltimore, Maryland
Ship skeletons haunt Baltimore's waterways.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
This forgotten building was one of the few Philadelphia-area breweries to survive Prohibition.
Washington, D.C.
An Industrial Revolution-era public work that purified water using nothing but sand.
Castroville, California
An abandoned boat that's been stranded mysteriously for decades.
Liberty, Missouri
The ruins of a 19th century shelter run by the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
Oakland, New Jersey
The remains of a century-old mansion that met a fiery demise years after it was deserted.
Glen Gardner, New Jersey
A recently abandoned psych ward at the end of Sanatorium Road.
Lonaconing, Maryland
A remarkable time capsule of American manufacturing deep in Maryland coal country.
White, Georgia
One of the world's largest automobile junkyards is a unique landscape of metal and moss.
Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands
This jail once controlled by the Japanese military now sits abandoned on a remote Pacific island.
Murdo, South Dakota
The deserted railroad town had a last gasp as a ghost town attraction before being abandoned for good.
Portland, Oregon
Portland had a unique approach to Cold War-era protections.
Goleta, California
This little gem of Spanish Colonial architecture has been abandoned since the 1950s.
Farmington, Connecticut
An abandoned Depression-era zoo hidden just off the highway.
Catskill, New York
The abandoned ruins of America's first private zoo are open for exploration in the Catskills.