Pacifica, California
Nike Missile Site SF-51
Another of California's unused Cold War missile defense complexes has become a graffiti gallery.
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Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Pacifica, California
Another of California's unused Cold War missile defense complexes has become a graffiti gallery.
Yachats, Oregon
On the Oregon coast is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.
La Grande, Oregon
A haunted hot springs hotel that went from healing retreat to asylum before it was restored.
Aspen, Colorado
Silver in the hills led to the speedy creation of this boom town and a lack of it saw the town abandoned nearly as quickly.
Calhan, Colorado
Wondrous sandstone hoodoos where Native Americans collected clay for pottery, 9,000 years ago.
St. Louis, Missouri
A floating museum that was sunk by a flood and left to rot in the tides.
North Pole, Alaska
An abandoned aircraft sits submerged in a lake in the Alaska wilderness.
East Molesey, England
England's oldest surviving hedge maze has been confusing visitors for over 300 years.
Portsmouth, England
Hauled from the water's depths, Henry VIII's flagship is preserved in this capsule-shaped museum.
Chicago, Illinois
A theater sits abandoned on Roosevelt Road, once majestic in splendor, now majestic in decay.
Esmeralda County, Nevada
This tiny cluster of abandoned buildings looks like the future of the ghost town - today!
Staten Island, New York
This empty Victorian manse on Staten Island is said to be haunted but is actually a real life crime scene.
Cherokee, North Carolina
Some North Carolina Cherokee have been keeping their history alive for decades with a single play.
Berlin, Germany
The music is over at the Ballhaus Riviera Ballroom, but the ballroom remains in haunting disrepair.
Cardross, Scotland
One of Scotland's most important modern structures, it just made the '100 Most Endangered Sites' list.
Silver City, Nevada
An abandoned cyanide mill is now a haunting magnet for graffiti and illegal parties.
Fraser Island, Australia
WWI hospital ship lost in a cyclone turns up on the coast of Fraser Island, where she remains rusted and forgotten.
Buena Vista, Colorado
At the tallest peak in Colorado, an electrifying mix of thin air, lightning, and rivalry.
Leadville, Colorado
Abandoned silver mine strewn with wrecked and twisted structures.
Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
A train station that was abandoned by the coal industry and converted into a cocktail bar. Now it’s home to the local visitor bureau.
Litchfield, California
Secret Manor, a house full of legends, the least of which is the haunting of long-deceased ladies of pleasure.
San Francisco, California
This partially buried wreck is one of the most complete of its kind but is only revealed when the sea allows.
Warrenton, Oregon
100-year-old shipwreck you can walk up to at low tide.
Palos Verdes Estates, California
Remains of a Greek freighter trapped off of Rocky Point in 1961.