Santa Margarita, California
Rinconada Mercury Mine
Machinery left over from California's once thriving mercury industry now attracts artists and explorers.
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Santa Margarita, California
Machinery left over from California's once thriving mercury industry now attracts artists and explorers.
Castroville, California
An abandoned boat that's been stranded mysteriously for decades.
San Jose, California
San Francisco Bay's ghost town.
Benicia, California
The rusting remains of the largest assembled WWII fleet on the West Coast.
Bolinas, California
This rare example of a "tidefall" is a spectacular drop from the cliffs down onto the beach.
Sacramento, California
Before it was abandoned and left to rust alongside the road, this riverboat starred in a John Wayne movie.
Glen Ellen, California
The haunting ruins of Jack London's dream house.
Truckee, California
The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.
Damascus, Arkansas
This historic bridge has weathered fires and floods and still stands, now abandoned, where it has stood since 1874.
Casa Grande, Arizona
An abandoned facility that has become a place of ritualistic satanic worship, or so rumor has it.
Goodyear, Arizona
This abandoned horse racing track was an exercise in hubris from its inception.
Flagstaff, Arizona
Ancient pueblos built into the base of a natural canyon wall.
Flagstaff, Arizona
The cinder cone volcano with a less than complimentary name.
Winslow, Arizona
This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."
Turks and Caicos Islands
The rusted remains of a victim of Hurricane Ike.
Saint Peter's, Montserrat
A city continually buried under the ash of a volcano that has been erupting for more than 15 years.
Cornaa, Isle of Man
The ruins of an unfinished explosives factory can be found while taking a gentle stroll through a Manx glen.
London, England
A network of concealed passageways lies within a busy London Underground station.
London, England
Following the trail of an old metro line, this scenic path is haunted by a creepy spriggan statue.
Weybridge, England
The world's first purpose-built motor racetrack was destroyed by the outbreak of two world wars.
Louth, England
A quartet of rusting satellite goliaths are all that remain of a communication network that protected Britain from German and Russian air strikes.
Birkenhead, England
After mysteriously refusing to surrender at the end of World War II this sunken submarine was only salvaged in a search for Nazi gold.
Waterloo, England
A hundred copies of Antony Gormley's naked body stare out across the water.
Grange-over-Sands, England
Abandoned for over 20 years, this Art Deco seaside swimming pool is a magnificent waste.