An abandoned meat mecca now serves as an excellent locale for urban exploration.

A Museum of Holography frozen in 1974.

Landmark Chicago building narrowly avoided destruction.

A small Chicago museum filled with thousands of preserved butterflies, beetles, and more.

This lush 12-acre site was once named the finest Japanese garden in North America.

Chicago was once a major hub of film production, but being silent film you don’t hear much about it.

In the Shawnee National Forest, amazing rock formations peer through the treeline.

Once one of the world's great cities, Cahokia was a place of religious worship, trade and mass human sacrifice before being mysteriously abandoned.

Recognized the world over as the home of the McCallisters in the 1990 movie "Home Alone."

Former meatpacking facility turned vertical farm and sustainable business complex.

An outdoor urban gallery of large-scale artworks by the world's most influential street artists.

An ornate abandoned schoolhouse hidden in the woods near a decaying mill town.

A handful of beehive kilns are all that’s left of a historic brick-making empire.

A Christian-themed amusement park and complex rocked by scandals.

The only working large-scale tea plantation in the United States.

The language and heritage of a nearly forgotten culture can still be explored in this Southern enclave.

An unfinished rail tunnel that has since been used to house cheese and bats.

Burial site more than 300 years old.

A forgotten sea village stands silent after hurricanes deemed it obsolete.

Trace the history of writing at this unusual North Carolina destination.

Amazing pre-Civil War ruins alongside a shallow, rocky river that hosts beautiful (but endangered) lilies.

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

According to local lore, this narrow passageway through two large rocks was accidentally created by the devil himself.

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