Boston, Massachusetts
Brook Farm
Site of a famous 19th-century transcendentalist utopian community, now abandoned.
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Boston, Massachusetts
Site of a famous 19th-century transcendentalist utopian community, now abandoned.
Danvers, Massachusetts
This historic graveyard monument is dedicated to a tragic victim of witch trial hysteria.
Danvers, Massachusetts
The inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft's horror stories and Batman's Arkham Asylum is now a condominium complex.
Waltham, Massachusetts
Once the largest public hospital for the mentally ill was also surrounded by controversy.
Sudbury, Massachusetts
In the middle of a New England forest sit the crumbling ruins of World War II-era ammunition storage bunkers.
Sudbury, Massachusetts
This dam in the woods, built by Henry Ford with only manpower and oxen, holds no water and serves no purpose.
West Boylston, Massachusetts
The only surviving building of historic West Boylston, which was flooded to create the Wachusett Reservoir.
Rutland, Massachusetts
The ruins of a Massachusetts prison farm can still be found crumbling the woods of a state park.
Chesterfield, New Hampshire
Ruins of the elaborate house where the enigmatic costume designer threw glamorous parties for New York's theatrical elite.
Hawley, Massachusetts
The oldest flagstone charcoal kiln in New England serves as a reminder of the importance of land conservation and sustainability.
Newington, Connecticut
An overgrown and abandoned tuberculosis ward resides in the midst of a quaint modern neighborhood.
Beacon, New York
This abandoned factory on the Hudson River once churned out a million bricks a week.
Poughkeepsie, New York
This mouldering abandoned mental hospital was once a center for progressive healing.
Victorville, California
Abandoned Air Force base that has fallen into disrepair.
Los Angeles, California
A hospital closed seemingly in the middle of operations, leaving behind fodder for horror films and ghost hunters.
Kings Park, New York
Beneath the mossy overgrowth covering this once-sprawling campus lies decades of history and the secrets that come with it.
Syosset, New York
An abandoned Gold Coast-era mansion once intended for the exiled ruler of Albania, who never arrived.
Queens, New York
Read between the lines of the subway map to find the hidden abandoned Civil War fort.
Queens, New York
A once crucial portion of the Long Island railroad still lays abandoned, waiting to be turned into an urban park.
New York, New York
This abandoned caretaker's apartment is one of 13 left in the New York Public Library system.
New York, New York
The oldest surviving bridge in New York City, which reopened to pedestrians in 2015.
New York, New York
A tunnel once abandoned now thrives with graffiti art as an off-limits makeshift gallery.
New York, New York
From scholastic to sepulchral - now under reconstruction.
New York, New York
Site of the first pathological and bacteriological research facility in the United States.