After hundreds of years of settlement, this once-bustling fishing village sunk into the Chesapeake Bay.

This old mining town, deep in the California desert, has a year-round population of one.

In the heart of Brigham Young's promised land sits a festering plot of industrial ruin that has been claimed by society's outcasts.

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

Crumbling ruins mark the site of a couple's grisly murder in the woods.

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

Along the old Route 66 is an abandoned trading post made from old telephone poles, built by a former circus clown.

An abandoned early-20th-century boomtown sits within the Calico Rock city limits.

This overgrown Illinois water park offers a whole new type of adventure.

This airfield is home to a number of retired vintage planes in various states of disrepair.

This road in the Great Smoky Mountains was supposed to assuage a displaced community, but ended up a $52 million dead end.

No one really knows how these old hobby horses got here, but the herd keeps growing.

This former theme park in New York's Adirondack Mountains fell into ruin before being resurrected as a state-run campground

A planned settlement in Pennsylvania once housed the aristocratic refugees of the French Revolution.

The ruins of this long-abandoned unsuccessful gold mine can still be found.

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

This old cement mine has been used as everything from a mushroom farm to a recording studio.

This mining town boomed in the Atomic Age when uranium was gold, only to be abandoned when the industry collapsed.

An abandoned asylum where patients have been forgotten but their possessions remain.

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

The tragic reality of a town riddled with rumors of haunts, chemical spills, and serial killers.

On the outskirts of a reborn ghost town, a decaying post office remembers the bad old days.

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

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