Dubuque, Iowa
Dubuque Shot Tower
This long unused shot tower on the Mississippi remains a point of pride for a small city in Iowa.
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Dubuque, Iowa
This long unused shot tower on the Mississippi remains a point of pride for a small city in Iowa.
Baltimore, Maryland
Once America's tallest structure, now a Baltimore landmark.
Bridgeport, Connecticut
Connecticut's shot tower is near the end of its life.
Bridgeport, Connecticut
The once abandoned ruins of a Victorian beachside amusement park are now back in working order.
Rock, West Virginia
This abandoned amusement park was built on a site with a dark history.
Alderson, West Virginia
This abandoned school has had many lives since the early 1900s, and all of them doomed.
Walker, West Virginia
Once home to a thriving oil industry, this town now sits eerily abandoned.
Front Royal, Virginia
Crumbled shell of one of the oldest buildings in Virginia.
Cape Charles, Virginia
Nine of the very few concrete ships ever made in the U.S. are beautifully decaying off a Virginia pier.
Toddville, Maryland
After hundreds of years of settlement, this once-bustling fishing village sunk into the Chesapeake Bay.
Germantown, Maryland
The ruins of an old mill lie in a small ravine along a hiking trail near Little Seneca Creek.
Germantown, Maryland
The hidden ruins of a mill that is linked to an attempt to assassinate the vice president of the United States.
Boyds, Maryland
This abandoned Victorian-style house was built in 1884.
New Castle, Pennsylvania
This public space is speckled with the eerie remnants of a defunct amusement park.
Buffalo, New York
Buffalo's abandoned concrete grain elevators are getting a second life.
Wyalusing, Pennsylvania
A planned settlement in Pennsylvania once housed the aristocratic refugees of the French Revolution.
Ashley, Pennsylvania
This demolished goliath of American industry once loomed over the depressed town it once made thrive.
Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
Narrow gorges and deep pools created by long-ago glaciers.
Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania
This jail which was in service for over a century is now open for curious visitors.
Weatherly, Pennsylvania
This eerily well-preserved coal town was saved from destruction by a Sean Connery movie.
Nanticoke, Pennsylvania
Buildings that dynamite couldn't bring down were abandoned because of bathroom issues.
Chester Springs, Pennsylvania
This mill has been in continuous operation since before the country’s founding.
Pine Swamp, Pennsylvania
A well-preserved example of an early industrial operation in the northeastern United States.
Pottstown, Pennsylvania
A modern ghost town whose inhabitants were driven away by the growth of nuclear power.