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TravelwithAustin

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Hi I'm Austin and I am TravelwithAustin. I am an urbex photographer and youtuber who travels across the US and Canada looking for the abandoned, haunted, and strange. I document my findings with photography and youtube videos. I am a 2021 graduate of Ohio University, and the former runner of the Athens Asylum (The Ridges] social media.
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Miami Marine Stadium
Permanently Closed

Key Biscayne, Florida

Miami Marine Stadium

An abandoned water sports stadium that has become a haven for graffiti and decay.

Abandoned Aerojet Dade Rocket Facility in Homestead, Florida
Permanently Closed

Homestead, Florida

Aerojet Dade Rocket Facility

When this test site was abandoned, they didn't even bother to take the rocket with them.

Robert Is Here

Homestead, Florida

Robert Is Here

The sign that drew attention to a young boy's cucumber stand is now the name of his fruit superstore.

Betsy the Lobster

Islamorada, Florida

Betsy the Lobster

This spiny beast guards an artist's village while vying for the title of largest lobster in the world.

Tourists flock to the buoy (Flickr/Turtle43)

Key West, Florida

Southernmost Point of the Continental U.S.

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

The African Cemetery at Higgs Beach, Key West.

Key West, Florida

African Cemetery at Higgs Beach

Near the ruins of a Civil War coastal fortress lies the only known African refugee cemetery in the United States.

"Lady-in-the-Lake."

Elberta, Alabama

Barber Marina

Come for the boats, stay to explore the intriguing assortment of art.

Bamahenge is made out of fiberglass

Elberta, Alabama

Bamahenge

Alabama has a fiberglass Stonehenge. With apologies to Spinal Tap, this one is full-size.

Photo by Sarah McDonald

Cullman, Alabama

Ave Maria Grotto

A miniature city built by a single hunchbacked monk.

Capitol Park.

Tuscaloosa, Alabama

Capitol Park

These ruins are all that's left of the former Alabama State Capitol.

First glimps of spectre through the styrofoam trees

Millbrook, Alabama

Spectre Set Ruins

The remains of an idyllic small town built for the film 'Big Fish' still stand around a rundown main street.

View of several mound structures.

Chillicothe, Ohio

Hopewell Culture National Historic Park

The mounds at this site were reconstructed with the help of archaeologists and historians.

Jungle Jim's International Market

Fairfield, Ohio

Jungle Jim's International Market

An unusual, super-sized grocery adventure awaits in an Ohio suburb.

Warm Glow Candle Outlet.

Centerville, Indiana

Warm Glow Candle Outlet

A giant lumpy candle serves as a beacon for this highly scented pit stop.

The magnificent bison in the park.

Galloway, Ohio

Battelle Darby Creek Metro Park

Bison, America's national mammal, are staging a slow comeback in Ohio's prairie parkland.

The entrance and disk announcing the Fountain of Youth

Wexford, Pennsylvania

Fountain of Youth

A stone arch leads to a cavernous 1930s spring house tucked away in the Pennsylvania woods.

Recycled Cascade Park rollercoasters.

New Castle, Pennsylvania

Cascade Park

This public space is speckled with the eerie remnants of a defunct amusement park.

The Chester Teapot, at night

Chester, West Virginia

World's Largest Teapot

First a root beer ad, then a golf course clubhouse, and finally a massive teapot.

One of the darkened tunnels.

Breezewood, Pennsylvania

Abandoned Pennsylvania Turnpike

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

Tunnel entrance.

Salem, West Virginia

Brandy Gap Tunnel #2

This abandoned train tunnel has been the subject of countless ghost stories for years.

The main entrance into the Asylum.

Weston, West Virginia

Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum

A particularly creepy abandoned hospital that sparks interest for lovers of the supernatural.

The entrance to school, covered in vines.

Pomeroy, Ohio

Kerr’s Run Colored School

This schoolhouse for Black American children is one of the oldest remaining in southeastern Ohio.

The ruins of Thornhill, built in the shape of a Maltese Cross. It was three stories tall.

Walker, West Virginia

Volcano Historic Boomtown

Once home to a thriving oil industry, this town now sits eerily abandoned.

Route 50 Tombstone

Little Hocking, Ohio

Route 50 Tombstone

In the middle of an abandoned stretch of old Route 50 lies a tombstone that weighs three tons.

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