What was once a trend-setting, phrase-coining icon of architectural splendor is now a rotting, forgotten hulk.

A modern ghost town whose inhabitants were driven away by the growth of nuclear power.

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

An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.

Buildings that dynamite couldn't bring down were abandoned because of bathroom issues.

First a horse rendering plant, then a 19th century landfill, this beach is full of glass from thousands upon thousands of broken bottles.

Little Red Lighthouse under the George Washington Bridge.

Decades after testing the polio vaccine on unwitting patients, this historic mental hospital sits in ruin.

This abandoned ironworks was once the most important military supplier in America.

The haunting, dilapidated remains of a former poorhouse on Staten Island's Greenbelt.

Collapsing castle on the Hudson river was once the storage site of military surplus business.

This recreation of a 19th-century dime museum is full of oddities.

A small granite block at this monument's base is the only part of Lincoln's Tomb outside of Illinois.

This stately 19th century library pushed architectural boundaries at a time when the public library movement was just taking off.

A local prank turned town icon.