Far from the shore, this sandy victim of the Skeleton Coast looks like it was plopped in the middle of the desert.

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

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

Shipwrecks, ruins, and turtles are all that remain on this haunting Caribbean ghost island.

An abandoned outdoor movie theater in the Sinai desert.

If astronomy had a ghost, it would look like this observatory.

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

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

An abandoned relic of the city's failed experiment with below ground transit.

The old Route 66 town straddling Texas and New Mexico died along with the Main Street of America.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

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.

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

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

A Beaux-Arts triumph set to become Ford's innovation campus

The haunting "Hell House Altar" is one of the few remnants of an abandoned college that has been a magnet for local legends.

This former tuberculosis research hospital endeavored to cure the dreaded disease with fresh air and positive attitudes.

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

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

Ruined pieces of stone and a swimming pool are all that remain of an amusement park swept away by a flood.

A late sculptor's last project was to turn this abandoned cement factory into a castle-themed amusement park.

Disney World's very first waterpark is now an abandoned ruin being reclaimed by the swamp.

Disney's abandoned animal island is now an overgrown ruin that was almost the coolest attraction ever.