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

This fairy tale-themed amusement park is now abandoned, and childhood metaphors abound.

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.

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.

Ruins of the elaborate house where the enigmatic costume designer threw glamorous parties for New York's theatrical elite.

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.

The remains of a World War II munitions factory still haunt the fields of this Twin Cities suburb.

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

The former locus of Boston's high culture has been shuttered and buried for over 70 years.

A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.

This former tuberculosis research hospital endeavored to cure the dreaded disease with fresh air and positive attitudes.

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.

This remote island in Iowa was abandoned after being devastated by flood.

If astronomy had a ghost, it would look like this observatory.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.