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Home to the infamous "Typhoid Mary" and the worst loss of life in New York's history prior to September 11, 2001.

A former seaside jewel built for the everyman is now simply a neglected art deco fortress.

First a horse rendering plant, then a 19th century landfill, this beach is full of glass from thousands upon thousands of broken bottles.

This Queens hospital has stood abandoned for almost 20 years after its patients were secretly relocated in the dead of night.

This abandoned seaside fortress is now simply an imposing ruin being taken back by nature.

Once connected to the outside world by a single train track, this ghost town is looked after by the National Park Service.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

In the woods of New Jersey lie the ruins of a munitions village abandoned after World War I and the remnants of a 1920s wooden racetrack.

A recently abandoned psych ward at the end of Sanatorium Road.

Series of storm drains connected to a dark urban legend.

This tiny New Jersey village has lived many lives but seems determined to remain a ghost town.

Wander through more than 20,000 square feet filled with an amazing collection of orchids.

The secret city built by the Manhattan Project.

Enormous lake at the bottom of a unique cave system.

An abandoned early-20th-century boomtown sits within the Calico Rock city limits.

The 19th-century ruins hide deep in an overgrown forest.

The end of times arrives, at least for the fish in the O.C. Fisher Reservoir.

This old abandoned sign flickers to announce a motel that isn't even there.

Abandoned railroad tunnel is home to a colony of three million Mexican free-tail bats.

A 90-year-old underground water reservoir offers a more industrial kind of tranquility.

A popular swimming hole that hides one of America's most deadly diving spots.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.

Reproductions of nine banned oil paintings coyly hidden behind a curtain in a New Mexico conference room.