Cairo, Illinois
Abandoned Town of Cairo, Illinois
A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.
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Cairo, Illinois
A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.
Evanston, Illinois
Shop of curiosities with a dinosaur museum tucked in its basement.
Chicago, Illinois
This unauthorized stone mermaid was secretly carved out of public stone before being permanently preserved.
Park Ridge, Illinois
A science teacher's dream.
Chicago, Illinois
An enormous park-like oasis, full of famous Chicagoans’ graves.
Chicago, Illinois
A giant bronze coil of feces is both a tribute to doggie defecation and a reminder to pick it up.
Chicago, Illinois
A monument to the art of slicing people open.
White Springs, Florida
The abandoned bathhouse is all that remains of the hot springs considered Florida's original tourist attraction.
Allenwood, Pennsylvania
Over 100 concrete munitions bunkers are all that remain of a Pennsylvanian village seized by the US government.
Wexford, Pennsylvania
A stone arch leads to a cavernous 1930s spring house tucked away in the Pennsylvania woods.
Breezewood, Pennsylvania
An abandoned stretch of highway, deteriorating next to the operational one.
Windber, Pennsylvania
Collection of trolley cars in the woods represent one man's attempt to preserve transportation history.
Point Pleasant, West Virginia
These rows of World War II-era bunkers were the scene of some of the infamous Mothman sightings.
Wheeling, West Virginia
This abandoned dream castle and its cemetery look out over the city that once inspired their creation.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Mural made of 100,000 pieces of hand blown glass, and one of the largest glass murals in the US.
Ovid, New York
An abandoned asylum where patients have been forgotten but their possessions remain.
New York, New York
This abandoned subway station can still be seen on regular commuter trips.
New York, New York
Deep under Manhattan is the largest construction project in city history. So far, the project has taken the lives of 23 workers, or "a man a mile."
New York, New York
Blighted Irish field and the ruins of a 19th-century cottage on the edge of urban Manhattan.
Bronx, New York
The loneliest island in New York.
Brooklyn, New York
Abandoned power station once home to a squatter community, now being developed into an arts center.
Queens, New York
Read between the lines of the subway map to find the hidden abandoned Civil War fort.
Brooklyn, New York
First a horse rendering plant, then a 19th century landfill, this beach is full of glass from thousands upon thousands of broken bottles.
Bronx, New York
Home to the infamous "Typhoid Mary" and the worst loss of life in New York's history prior to September 11, 2001.