Hatteras, North Carolina
Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum
An Outer Banks museum devoted to the thousands of shipwrecks resting off North Carolina’s coast.
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Hatteras, North Carolina
An Outer Banks museum devoted to the thousands of shipwrecks resting off North Carolina’s coast.
Cayucos, California
A commercial fishing boat stranded on the California coast.
Indianapolis, Indiana
This elaborate estate contains a stunning marble aviary, a sunken conservatory, and a magnificent music room with a two-story pipe organ.
San Simeon, California
The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.
Jolon, California
This mission, established in 1771, is the most remote of California’s Franciscan missions.
Eureka, Missouri
This former small town was destroyed not by the motor oil it sprayed the ground with but by the toxic waste that was added.
Spanish Fork, Utah
An empty mine that some believe will suddenly be filled with fortune and treasures at the end of the world.
Fairview, Utah
A small flooded ghost town with a few scattered structures remaining.
Skull Valley, Utah
A 1920s navigation arrow for airmail is preserved right off Interstate 80 near the southern edge of the Great Salt Lake
Grantsville, Utah
A desert settlement founded and later abandoned by Hawaiian members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Utah's Skull Valley.
Salt Lake City, Utah
This former wildlife sanctuary is being transformed into an art park.
Atlanta, Georgia
The beauty of urban decay, hiding some dark secrets.
Washington, D.C.
People escaping slavery may have hidden inside a corpse vault.
Portland, Maine
The only remaining historic maritime signal station in the United States.
Portland, Maine
This once-forgotten African American cultural hub was an important stop on the Underground Railroad.
Miami, Florida
A perfect circle of 24 mysterious holes dates back to prehistoric times.
Miami, Florida
Former villa and estate of James Deering developed to preserve native tropical forests.
Key Biscayne, Florida
Located within a historic park, the beacon is the oldest standing structure in Miami.
New Smyrna Beach, Florida
These mysterious ruins are hidden amid this sleepy coastal city.
Ponce Inlet, Florida
The third tallest lighthouse in America once guided author Stephen Crane to safety.
Norwich, Connecticut
Abandoned 37.5' diameter rusted metal sphere sitting in the woods.
Northampton, Massachusetts
A rock and sand industrial site returns to its natural habitat.
Chester, Massachusetts
The first keystone arch railroad bridges constructed in America.
Sharpsburg, Maryland
This is the cabin from which John Brown and his men launched their fateful war to end slavery on October 16, 1859.