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

Despite being burnt down multiple times, the ruins of this South Carolina church are still standing.

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

The location of Puerto Rico's first water bottling plant, thanks to a collaboration between Mother Nature and technology.

A haunted hot springs hotel that went from healing retreat to asylum before it was restored.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

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.

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

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

The abandoned remnants of a little sanctuary for world peace that fell into disrepair.

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

This abandoned prison castle has become an imposing gallery of graffiti art.

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

The remains of a World War II munitions factory still haunt the fields of this Twin Cities suburb.

During the 1990's nearly all of the world's LSD is thought to have come from the operators of the lab once located in this missile silo.

This remote island in Iowa was abandoned after being devastated by flood.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

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

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

The beauty of urban decay, hiding some dark secrets.

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

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

Abandoned silver mine strewn with wrecked and twisted structures.