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This WWII-era military installation once held an entire city within its walls - now, its walls are falling down.

Running under an entire mountain, the longest highway tunnel in North America is kept fresh using portal fans and jet fans.

This small city where almost everyone lives in the same building can only be reached via North America's longest tunnel.

A suburban street in Anchorage doubles as a runway, and each home has its own airplane hangar.

The ghost town where the villagers refuse to leave.

The ruins of this Alaska gold mine form a gorgeous ghost town.

This graveyard is the eternal home of the residents of a vanished California town.

Here, at the “world’s longest art gallery,” you’ll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.

An abandoned early-20th-century boomtown sits within the Calico Rock city limits.

Planned as the world’s first zero-carbon city, it had lofty ideals—but is only 5 percent completed and aiming for 50 percent carbon-neutral.

Henry Ford's failed rubber plantation in the middle of the Amazon rain forest.

The history of knife-making in this French city is explored through this museum.

The oldest philatelic museum in the United States.

This restored station garage allows visitors to step back in time at this remote outpost on the Nullarbor Plain.

Memorials and tributes scattered across the university grounds remember a famous national tragedy of the Nixon era.

The tragic reality of a village riddled with rumors of haunts, chemical spills, and serial killers.

Settled by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1859, this abandoned frontier town has appeared in several films.

A living snapshot of a different time in America is preserved and maintained by a community of volunteers.

The only way to visit this old resort hotel is with scuba gear.

Forgotten under the construction of a new urban roadway is a small, abandoned part of town.

The “City of Stairs” sits high in the Andes, above the world’s largest underground copper mine.

The abandoned military base looks like a post-apocalyptic wasteland.

The abandoned train depot now doubles as a well-placed rest stop for those who take the road less traveled.

An eerie, decaying ghost town destined to fade into the forest.