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Sleeping steel in the snow

Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

Hoover-Mason Trestle

The internal railway of one of the biggest steel plants in America has been transformed into a linear park with unique industrial views.

Soldiers Re-Interred at Tomb of Unknown Soldier, Bethlehem.

Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

Tomb of Unknown Soldier (Bethlehem)

A tribute to those that perished during the American Revolution.

S. S. Selma

Galveston, Texas

S. S. Selma

A decaying concrete oil tanker served as a disposal location for bootleg hootch.

A covered bridge marks all that has been lost

Danville, Vermont

The Forgotten Village at Greenbank's Hollow

Industrial ruin decimated this tiny New England company town in a fashion no one saw coming… and even fewer remember today.

One side of the base of the Ashtabula Bridge Disaster Monument.

Ashtabula, Ohio

Ashtabula Bridge Disaster Monument

A monument to the “unrecognized dead” of the tragic 1876 train crash.

Trains at the Illinois Railway Museum

Union, Illinois

Illinois Railway Museum

At the largest railway museum in the United States, you can see everything from an early steam engine to a functioning Thomas the Tank Engine.

Wyckoff House. (Wikimedia Commons)

Brooklyn, New York

Wyckoff House

Oldest surviving example of a Dutch saltbox frame house in America.

A Brooklyn Rapid Transit electric streetcar in 1908.

Brooklyn, New York

Canarsie Trolley Graveyard

Residents of this Brooklyn neighborhood may be unaware their houses sit atop a buried trolley graveyard.

Inside the trolley

Windber, Pennsylvania

Windber Trolley Graveyard

Collection of trolley cars in the woods represent one man's attempt to preserve transportation history.

One of the darkened tunnels.

Breezewood, Pennsylvania

Abandoned Pennsylvania Turnpike

An abandoned stretch of highway, deteriorating next to the operational one.

An unmarked cross grave.

Kings Park, New York

St. Johnland Cemetery

This forgotten graveyard in rural New York State once served a pioneering hospital.

Abandoned Kings Park Psychiatric Center
Permanently Closed

Kings Park, New York

Abandoned Kings Park Psychiatric Center

Beneath the mossy overgrowth covering this once-sprawling campus lies decades of history and the secrets that come with it.

Forest Haven Asylum
Permanently Closed

Laurel, Maryland

Forest Haven Asylum

This abandoned asylum was once a state of the art facility before devolving into one of the most deadly mental institutions in American history.

Eagle Lake Tramway

Northwest Piscataquis, Maine

Eagle Lake Tramway

Steam engines and conveyor belts are remnants of a genius system left in the middle of the Maine woods.

Grimshawes Post Office.

Cashiers, North Carolina

Grimshawes Post Office

This 5-by-6-foot wooden hut is the smallest historic post office in the U.S.

Foxfire Museum

Mountain City, Georgia

Foxfire Museum

Where you can experience the story of Appalachia, as told by Appalachians.

Oconee Station State Historic Site

Walhalla, South Carolina

Oconee Station State Historic Site

A historic blockhouse and trading post give a glimpse into the early colonial history of South Carolina.

Tunnel entrance

Walhalla, South Carolina

Stumphouse Tunnel

An unfinished rail tunnel that has since been used to house cheese and bats.

The replica of Fort Sauerkraut, completed in 2004.

Hebron, North Dakota

Fort Sauerkraut

A replica of a fort built from a frontier town's mass hysteria in the face of false reports of impending Native American violence.

Central State Hospital

Milledgeville, Georgia

Central State Hospital

One of the largest-ever mental hospitals now sits abandoned, surrounded by 25,000 unmarked graves.

The St. Elizabeths center building on August 2006.

Washington, D.C.

St. Elizabeths Hospital

Government testing at the asylum briefly explored using marijuana as a "truth serum" on Nazi prisoners of war.

Medfield State Hospital

Medfield, Massachusetts

Medfield State Hospital

Unlike other abandoned asylums this empty institution welcomes visitors, just don't go in the buildings.

Camp Hero

Montauk, New York

Camp Hero

A mysterious air force base built to resemble a Long Island fishing village.

Sunrise Resort
Permanently Closed

East Haddam, Connecticut

Sunrise Resort

An abandoned 146-acre summer resort slowly being reclaimed by nature.

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