An abandoned Gold Coast-era mansion once intended for the exiled ruler of Albania, who never arrived.

Abandoned Japanese ghost town gives a glimpse into what our own metropolises may leave behind.

The bones of an old zoo crumbling in the shadow of a new one.

This ruined folly was originally built to honor a failed American state that would have become "Westsylvania."

A burnt-out motel with priceless Native American artwork in the basement, redeveloped into apartments.

This once luxurious Catskills resort is now a haunting ruin.

This beautiful Victorian ironwork masterpiece was built to keep London from smelling like poop.

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

A long abandoned hospital building on the outskirts of NYC.

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

A girls' boarding school inspired by the Chicago World's Fair, once abandoned, now restored to strange and scenic glory.

A once grand hotel is being retaken by the wilderness it once capitalized on.

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

I fought the law and the precinct caved in.

An urban forest overtakes what was the greatest failure of utopic urban housing.

Pop culture has helped to keep this iconic British building from being destroyed.

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

One of the ghostly stops along Route 66.

This former tuberculosis research hospital endeavored to cure the dreaded disease with fresh air and positive attitudes.

Read between the lines of the subway map to find the hidden abandoned Civil War fort.

Achill's most recently abandoned village dates back to to the Age of Enlightenment.

Built from oil field parts and resembling a teepee, this abandoned mid-century church is hoping for a comeback.

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

Shipwrecks, ruins, and turtles are all that remain on this haunting Caribbean ghost island.