Normal, Illinois
Abandoned Illinois Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Children’s School
This abandoned 19th century orphanage started as a boarding school for children of Civil War veterans.
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Normal, Illinois
This abandoned 19th century orphanage started as a boarding school for children of Civil War veterans.
St. Helena Island, South Carolina
Once luxurious, these oceanfront beach homes have been left to succumb to the elements as the beach is slowly washed away.
Salley, South Carolina
Hidden in this little-known town stands a piece of agriculture history.
Glen Gardner, New Jersey
A recently abandoned psych ward at the end of Sanatorium Road.
Milledgeville, Georgia
One of the largest-ever mental hospitals now sits abandoned, surrounded by 25,000 unmarked graves.
Sarasota, Florida
A lone gunner's station is all that remains of a replica Spanish Fort in Florida.
Chicago, Illinois
This historic house museum that celebrates one of the world's most influential social reformers is also one of the most haunted locations in Chicago.
Rochester, Michigan
This museum was once the home of industry titan Matilda Dodge Wilson.
White Lake, Michigan
Once the extravagant escape of the Ford family, this enigmatic ruin now stands as a haunting reminder of its former glory.
Bronx, New York
Designed by famed 20th-century architect Cass Gilbert, the future of this abandoned 1908 rail station is currently in limbo.
Savannah, Georgia
An abandoned munitions storage facility with a rich architectural history.
Morristown, Tennessee
All that's left of the quintessential "cabin in the woods."
Millbrook, Alabama
The remains of an idyllic small town built for the film 'Big Fish' still stand around a rundown main street.
Picher, Oklahoma
This former mining town was named the most toxic town in America.
St. Augustine, Florida
This shrine commemorates the site of the first known Catholic mass in the United States.
St. Augustine, Florida
The walls of America's oldest masonry fort famously "swallowed" cannonballs.
St. Augustine, Florida
Two men built this castle on the Florida coast as an artistic “landscape sculpture.”
Mountain View, Arkansas
This one-room schoolhouse in rural Arkansas dates to the 1920s, but looks like it could be the 1820s.
Yellville, Arkansas
The final remnant of the Arkansas zinc industry is this historically protected ghost town.
Calico Rock, Arkansas
An abandoned early-20th-century boomtown sits within the Calico Rock city limits.
Frisco, Utah
Only ruined buildings and abandoned charcoal kilns remain of this once bustling Wild West boom town.
Quinault, Washington
Standing 191 feet tall and measuring more than 55 feet in circumference, this is the world's tallest spruce tree.
St. Francisville, Louisiana
Every year, a Louisiana town remembers a brief Civil War truce inspired by Masonic brotherhood.
Lettsworth, Louisiana
The childhood home of the legendary blues guitarist and singer.