Glenn Dale, Maryland
Marietta House Museum
A historic Maryland home that once belonged to a man who has been called "the most insignificant" U.S. Supreme Court justice.
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Glenn Dale, Maryland
A historic Maryland home that once belonged to a man who has been called "the most insignificant" U.S. Supreme Court justice.
Glenn Dale, Maryland
An FDR-era tuberculosis sanatorium has stood abandoned in the suburbs of the U.S. capital for over 30 years.
Oka, Guam
The forgotten site of Guam’s first civilian hospital, where crumbling concrete foundations overlook the sea.
Genoa, Colorado
See six states from the newly restored 100-year-old historic roadside attraction.
Paris, France
A font of vintage porn on the silver screen.
Ishinomaki, Japan
A school destroyed by fire and tsunami simultaneously is preserved as a memorial.
Two Harbors, California
A remote one-room schoolhouse on Catalina Island, once a lifeline for local children, now abandoned.
Oakland, California
A 1914 beaux arts auditorium that sat shuttered for 20 years, restored and reopened in 2026
Velha Goa, India
All that remains of a 16th-century Jesuit school is this carved, worn gate.
Fernandina Beach, Florida
A 19th-century schoolhouse has been transformed into a boutique hotel, complete with a pool and mini golf.
Fernandina Beach, Florida
This grand, Italianate family home built in 1885 is now a charming bed and breakfast.
Chiefland, Florida
A much more welcome kind of snowbird vacationer, manatees camp out in these springs every winter.
West Shokan, New York
Beneath its placid surface, one of New York City's primary sources of drinking water hides a haunted past.
Lee, Florida
This picturesque ghost town is located on the banks of the Suwannee River.
White Springs, Florida
The abandoned bathhouse is all that remains of the hot springs considered Florida's original tourist attraction.
Tskaltubo, Georgia
The decaying remains of a once-luxurious Soviet spa town.
Bulgaria
An abandoned sanatorium building from the early 20th century sits in the forest of the Rila mountains.
Maribel, Wisconsin
These rural ruins are of a Midwestern hotel that was once an elegant spa for the wealthy, then a gangster’s hideaway, and finally a haunted retreat.
Les Terres Basses, Saint Martin
This might be the most famous abandoned hotel in the Caribbean.
Larkspur, Colorado
In a beautiful open space on the north side of the Palmer Divide sits one solitary 19th-century gravestone in a copse of trees.
Scenic, South Dakota
The empty town of Scenic, South Dakota, is owned by a church in the Philippines.
Trempealeau, Wisconsin
An 1857 brewery on the banks Mississippi River, now just a ruin with no roof, no windows and only one corner of the building still standing.
Governor's Harbour, Bahamas
A crumbling Caribbean resort hidden just steps from a beautiful pink sand beach.
Ormond Beach, Florida
Faded remnants of the entrance to a Mediterranean-style resort that never fully came to life.