Havana, Florida
Shade Tobacco Museum
This small museum is dedicated to the history of Havana and Florida's once-booming tobacco industry.
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Havana, Florida
This small museum is dedicated to the history of Havana and Florida's once-booming tobacco industry.
Chattahoochee, Florida
This Florida arena, once host to "the fastest game in the world," has sat empty for 25 years.
Castroville, California
An abandoned boat that's been stranded mysteriously for decades.
Forks, Washington
Stroll through a wonderland of stupendous moss-covered trees.
Portland, Oregon
These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.
Kantuot, Cambodia
This impressive clifftop temple was once at the center of an international custody dispute.
Flagler Beach, Florida
The ruins of this antebellum sugar plantation are the end result of a Seminole attack during the Florida Wars of 1836.
Dripping Springs, Texas
An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.
Cold Spring, New York
A ruined mansion hidden in the woods of the Hudson Valley, home of a tragically doomed romance.
Calipatria, California
This abandoned Navy base was transformed into an off-grid alternative living community for thousands of people.
Detroit, Michigan
A Beaux-Arts triumph rises from decades of decay to become the heart of a new innovation district.
Niagara Falls, New York
Toxic waste disaster that founded the Superfund program.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.
Beelitz, Germany
Terrifying derelict military hospital once housed a recuperating Hitler.
Los Angeles, California
The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.
Seattle, Washington
This historic building provides a powerful glimpse into the lives of Japanese Americans forced to relocate during World War II.
Richmond, California
Once the largest winery in the world, this castle-like building now sits abandoned on the San Pablo/San Francisco Bay shore.
Centerport, New York
A millionaire's abandoned swimming pool from the gilded age of one of America's most distinguished families.
Syosset, New York
An abandoned Gold Coast-era mansion once intended for the exiled ruler of Albania, who never arrived.
Prypiat, Ukraine
The ghost town left by the worst nuclear disaster of all time is being taken over by nature and urban explorers.
Inisheer, Ireland
A steam trawler with a whiskey-soaked history driven ashore in 1960 resides rusty but still standing on the shoreline.
Galveston, Texas
A decaying concrete oil tanker served as a disposal location for bootleg hootch.
Gold Beach, Oregon
This historic steamboat is scuttled just a few hundred feet from where it was built over a hundred years ago.
Cody, Wyoming
One man's ambition created this psychedelic log home.