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Despite repeated attempts to make it work, this former mining town is now nothing but dust and memories.

See just what life was like in a 19th-century prospecting town.

This abandoned amusement park was built on a site with a dark history.

Enormous piles of historically significant stones, dumped by Congress in a forest, and abandoned for 60 years.

This fairy tale-themed amusement park is now abandoned, and childhood metaphors abound.

Tucked away on an empty wooded lot in suburban Oklahoma City lie the remnants of an abandoned circus camp.

An abandoned relic of the city's failed experiment with below ground transit.

The remnants of an early American attempt at missile defense.

The old Route 66 town straddling Texas and New Mexico died along with the Main Street of America.

Hidden in plain sight on the Hudson River is an abandoned train station where nature has taken over.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

This amazingly preserved Gold Rush town is a historian's dream.

Instead of becoming a power plant, this abandoned complex became a massive letdown.

A Beaux-Arts triumph rises from decades of decay to become the heart of a new innovation district.

A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.

This former luxury resort in Kaua'i is now an abandoned relic.

A religious-themed park filled with folk art to bring biblical stories to life that fell into disrepair and now being restored.

On the eve of a condemned prisoner's death, this bell rang 12 times outside their cell.

A sculpture of a famous ape who was once a beloved household name in London.

It celebrates a very stinky task and salutes London's fatberg-vanquishing team.

The ritual has been performed uninterrupted for nearly 700 years.

The bridge is a secret gallery of discarded gum that has been transformed into miniature masterpieces.

This may be the last of London's wooden pavements, which were once a common sight in the city.

These wire animal sculptures commemorate the exotic inhabitants that once called the Tower of London home.