Abandoned Houses

Built at the turn of the 20th century, using bricks made and fired from clay found on the property.

A castle inspired by medieval architecture is hidden in the woods of Connecticut.

This picturesque abandoned home is rumored to be a spite house.

A crumbling ghost town with prime views of the dam that doomed it.

Enchanting gardens surround a derelict mansion, all hidden in plain sight behind a stone wall.

The abandoned "Ghost Mansion" was left to decay in the mountains of Northern Italy.

There's a crumbling old mansion inside the Smithsonian National Zoo.

The luxurious circular mansion built for a Communist leader now lies abandoned.

The deserted railroad town had a last gasp as a ghost town attraction before being abandoned for good.

The remains of a century-old mansion that met a fiery demise years after it was deserted.

An eight-sided home built during a brief octagon craze in the 1850s.

This abandoned fishing settlement may well be the greenest village in the world.

Colin Stokes "got a bit carried away" and built a castle that looks like something out of Tolkien.

A well-preserved Ancestral Puebloan ruin tucked beneath a desert cliff.

Ruins of the elaborate house where the enigmatic costume designer threw glamorous parties for New York's theatrical elite.

Rotting dome home spotted near Chapel Hill, North Carolina.