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Inside St. Agnes Church

Detroit, Michigan

St. Agnes Church and School

This Detroit ruin was once a gothic bastion of its community, but now it stands as a haunting ruin.

A piece of pottery dating to the late 6th century B.C.

Found: A Lost City in Greece

No one realized how extensive these ruins were.

Sarah Laskow December 13, 2016

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The abandoned Futuro house.

Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Abandoned Dome House

Rotting dome home spotted near Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Yulier Rodriguez decorates Havana's decaying buildings with art.

The Haunting Street Art Adorning Havana’s Oldest Buildings

Artist Yulier Rodriguez is filling Cuba's capital with melancholic alien creatures.

Sarah Laskow December 2, 2016

The ramp up to the Space Needle observation deck on Boblo Island.

Amherstburg, Ontario

Boblo Island Abandoned Amusement Park

An abandoned Victorian-era amusement park is rusting away amidst luxury houses.

The bases aren't in great condition.

There Are Hundreds of Secret Underground WWII Bases Hidden in British Forests

Built to fight a Nazi invasion, they remained unknown for decades.

Sarah Laskow November 30, 2016

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Pirou-Plage is located near the beach and was intended to be a holiday village, complete with hotel, houses and tennis courts.

Pirou-Plage Ghost Village

An abandoned beach resort in Normandy reclaimed by artists.

The ruins of the holiday resort of Pirou-Plage in Normandy, France.

After Being Abandoned, This French Beach Resort Was Adopted by Artists

The ghost village of Pirou-Plage in Normandy was reclaimed in the 2000s.

Elisabeth Blanchet November 21, 2016

Vidin, Bulgaria

Vidin Synagogue

The second-largest Jewish temple in Bulgaria was deserted after World War II, seized by the communist government and then abandoned again.

An old classroom in Latton National School, County Monaghan.

Looking Inside the Abandoned Schools of the Irish Countryside

Ireland is full of deserted schools. I've photographed 150 of them.

Enda O'Flaherty November 17, 2016

Permanently Closed

Oak Hill, West Virginia

Glen Jean School

An abandoned 1920s school with a mysterious history.

Entrance to the Wellington Administrative Building, now abandoned.

London, Ontario

Abandoned Veterans Village at Westminster Ponds

The ruins of a rehabilitation center for World War II vets can be found in the Westminster Ponds Conservation area.

Permanently Closed

Lester, Washington.

North Bend, Washington

Lester Ghost Town

A short hike into the mountainside forest reveals a decaying 1890s town.

The back bedroom.

New York, New York

Secret Apartment in the Fort Washington Library

This abandoned caretaker's apartment is one of 13 left in the New York Public Library system.

Collégiale Sainte-Croix in Liège.

Liège, Belgium

Collégiale Sainte-Croix de Liège

A once-magnificent collegiate church is falling into ruin.

Kennicott Ghost Town

Chitina, Alaska

Kennicott Ghost Town

The ghostly remains of what was once the world's richest copper mine.

Tengerszem Mine.

Sárospatak, Hungary

Tengerszem Nature Preserve

An industrial site turned into Hungary's most cherished natural wonder.

Two of the last remaining buildings of Grafton, Utah, a ghost town south of Zion National Park (which you can see in the background). The schoolhouse was built in 1886, it was also used as a church and public meeting place.

Rockville, Utah

Grafton Ghost Town

Settled by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1859, this abandoned frontier town has appeared in several films.