Waukesha, Wisconsin
M-74 Nike Missile Tracking and Control Site.
A forgotten Cold War relic hidden in the outskirts of a Wisconsin city.
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Waukesha, Wisconsin
A forgotten Cold War relic hidden in the outskirts of a Wisconsin city.
Rock, West Virginia
This abandoned amusement park was built on a site with a dark history.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.
Bryson City, North Carolina
This road in the Great Smoky Mountains was supposed to assuage a displaced community, but ended up a $52 million dead end.
Bryson City, North Carolina
The scant remains of this flooded historic village can be explored in one of the most remote areas of the Great Smokies.
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.
Beatty, Nevada
Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.
Jersey City, New Jersey
Hidden in plain sight on the Hudson River is an abandoned train station where nature has taken over.
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.
Stanley, Idaho
See just what life was like in a 19th-century prospecting town.
Kapa'a, Hawaii
This former luxury resort in Kaua'i is now an abandoned relic.
Marble Falls Township, Arkansas
A hillbilly theme park that proved so unpopular the land wouldn't even sell on eBay after it closed.
Millbrook, Alabama
The remains of an idyllic small town built for the film 'Big Fish' still stand around a rundown main street.
New Castle, New Hampshire
The once-abandoned 140-year-old hotel used in the movie "In Dreams."
Staunton, Virginia
A former mental hospital founded in the 1930s by a eugenicist who advocated for the forced sterilization of patients.
Cairo, Illinois
A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.
Berlin, Germany
A state-of-the-art medical facility from the Imperial era is now a derelict ruin.
Litchfield, California
Secret Manor, a house full of legends, the least of which is the haunting of long-deceased ladies of pleasure.
Leadville, Colorado
Abandoned silver mine strewn with wrecked and twisted structures.
Dorloo, New York
The only American museum exclusively dedicated to the exhibition of gloves.
Centerport, New York
A millionaire's abandoned swimming pool from the gilded age of one of America's most distinguished families.