Royse City, Texas
Royse City Futuro House
This crumbling UFO is one of only a few remaining "moveable ski chalets" of its kind.
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Royse City, Texas
This crumbling UFO is one of only a few remaining "moveable ski chalets" of its kind.
Bluff, Utah
A well-preserved Ancestral Puebloan ruin tucked beneath a desert cliff.
Hermosa, South Dakota
Despite repeated attempts to make it work, this former mining town is now nothing but dust and memories.
Hopkinton, Rhode Island
This fairy tale-themed amusement park is now abandoned, and childhood metaphors abound.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.
La Grande, Oregon
A haunted hot springs hotel that went from healing retreat to asylum before it was restored.
Edmond, Oklahoma
Tucked away on an empty wooded lot in suburban Oklahoma City lie the remnants of an abandoned circus camp.
Cincinnati, Ohio
An abandoned relic of the city's failed experiment with below ground transit.
Highland, Scotland
An abandoned village where the ruined foundations cling to a cliff.
Arlington, Virginia
An extensive, if one-sided, history of U.S. law enforcement's war on drugs.
Shanklin, England
This stream-carved gorge has inspired poets, hidden smugglers, and trained soldiers, all without losing its beauty.
East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania
This abandoned Poconos resort is haunted by a history of kitschy romance and a violent fugitive.
New York, New York
A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.
San Jon, New Mexico
The old Route 66 town straddling Texas and New Mexico died along with the Main Street of America.
Chesterfield, New Hampshire
Ruins of the elaborate house where the enigmatic costume designer threw glamorous parties for New York's theatrical elite.
Drummond, Montana
This amazingly preserved Gold Rush town is a historian's dream.
Pleasant Dale, Nebraska
The abandoned remnants of a little sanctuary for world peace that fell into disrepair.
Rosemount, Minnesota
The remains of a World War II munitions factory still haunt the fields of this Twin Cities suburb.
Ellicott City, Maryland
The haunting "Hell House Altar" is one of the few remnants of an abandoned college that has been a magnet for local legends.
Boston, Massachusetts
The former locus of Boston's high culture has been shuttered and buried for over 70 years.
New Orleans, Louisiana
A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.
Louisville, Kentucky
This former tuberculosis research hospital endeavored to cure the dreaded disease with fresh air and positive attitudes.
Wamego, Kansas
During the 1990's nearly all of the world's LSD is thought to have come from the operators of the lab once located in this missile silo.
Bloomington, Indiana
If astronomy had a ghost, it would look like this observatory.