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Big Mine Run Geyser

Ashland, Pennsylvania

Big Mine Run Geyser

The only geyser in the state of Pennsylvania is caused by pressure from an abandoned coal mine outside of the ghost town Centralia.

Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church in Centralia.

Centralia, Pennsylvania

Centralia Ghost Town Church

A mine fire has been burning under the deserted town since 1962, but this church is still going strong.

Centralia

Aristes, Pennsylvania

Centralia

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

Inside one of the intact kilns.

Nelsonville, Ohio

Nelsonville Brick Park

This park pays homage to the region's rich industrial history of brick making.

A few walls are still standing at the base of the chimney. The mine ceased operations in May, 1945.
Permanently Closed

Millfield, Ohio

Sunday Creek Coal Company Mine No. 6

The site of the worst mining disaster in Ohio's history.

Knox County Poorhouse
Permanently Closed

Mount Vernon, Ohio

Knox County Poorhouse

Abandoned former poorhouse, bible college, and haunted house in an Ohio hamlet.

Longaberger's home office.
Permanently Closed

Newark, Ohio

Longaberger Basket Building

An office built to look like a giant basket.

Cornhenge

Dublin, Ohio

Cornhenge

The inventor of a number of hybrid corn species is immortalized with a field of giant corn.

Midland B&O depot 2020
Permanently Closed

Midland, Ohio

Midland City Station

Now in disrepair, this 19th century station was a stop on of the famed B&O Railroad.

The entrance to the Gates of Hell.

Columbus, Ohio

Gates of Hell

The entrance to this sinisterly named tunnel hides behind a Tim Hortons.

Fernald Preserve

Hamilton, Ohio

Fernald Preserve

A former nuclear facility during the Cold War turned nature preserve.

Harland Sanders Cafe and Museum

Corbin, Kentucky

Harland Sanders Cafe and Museum

The first KFC is on the National Register of Historic Places.

Cumberland Falls State Park

Williamsburg, Kentucky

Cumberland Falls State Park

Moonbows over Kentucky.

Cave-In-Rock

Cave-In-Rock, Illinois

Cave-In-Rock

River pirates, murderous bandits, and serial killers used this Illinois cave as their debauched hideout.

Oscar Getz Museum of Whiskey History

Bardstown, Kentucky

Oscar Getz Museum of Whiskey History

The history of whiskey and all of its boozy glory, from Colonial days to modern American cocktail culture.

Kentucky's Stonehenge

Munfordville, Kentucky

Kentucky's Stonehenge

A local scoured more than 1,000 acres for stone to create his masterpiece.

Part of abandoned historic downtown Cairo, Illinois.

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.

Mantle Rock

Smithland, Kentucky

Mantle Rock

An enormous natural sandstone bridge in Kentucky.

Camel Rock.

Mountain Township, Illinois

Garden of the Gods

In the Shawnee National Forest, amazing rock formations peer through the treeline.

Life station by Confluence of the Ohio River and Mississippi River at Fort Defiance.

Cairo, Illinois

Fort Defiance Park

The lowest point in the state of Illinois, at the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers.

Broke Leg Falls

Wellington, Kentucky

Broke Leg Falls

Beautiful waterfalls grace a canyon visibly torn by a violent tornado.

Back end of the hospital (2022)
Permanently Closed

Louisville, Ohio

Molly Stark Sanatorium

This former tuberculosis treatment facility now stands at the center of a public park.

Ariel-Foundation Park

Mount Vernon, Ohio

Ariel-Foundation Park

Constructed from the ruins of a former glass factory, this park incorporates the old with the new.

One of the darkened tunnels.

Breezewood, Pennsylvania

Abandoned Pennsylvania Turnpike

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

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