A small Richmond island dotted with the remnants of hundreds of years of history.

Heron, whitewater rapids, and urban industrialism all add to the beauty of this concrete nature walk.

A former mental hospital founded in the 1930s by a eugenicist who advocated for the forced sterilization of patients.

Despite violent work crews and massive delays this abandoned canal tunnel was built to last into the modern day.

Remnants of a storybook amusement park hidden behind a strip mall.

This abandoned asylum was once a state of the art facility before devolving into one of the most deadly mental institutions in American history.

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

This abandoned school has had many lives since the early 1900s, and all of them doomed.

The "mysteries" of this quintessential roadside oddity were almost destroyed by neglect but were saved by fans of kitschy wonder.

An abandoned 1920s school with a mysterious history.

A 300-yard long natural tunnel runs through a ridge deep in the Appalachian Mountains.

A delightful park featuring homemade scale replicas of dinosaurs, tucked away in the Tennessee mountains.

One street divides a single town that stands in two U.S. states.

This abandoned amusement park was built on a site with a dark history.