An old abandoned mining town in The Adirondacks where Theodore Roosevelt first learned of the shooting of President William McKinley.

A beautiful and abandoned New York subway station from 1904, complete with chandelier.

Toxic waste disaster that founded the Superfund program.

The oldest surviving bridge in New York City, which reopened to pedestrians in 2015.

The haunting, dilapidated remains of a former poorhouse on Staten Island's Greenbelt.

A long abandoned hospital building on the outskirts of NYC.

An abandoned 19th century quarry in the middle of the woods, remade by unnamed wanderers into a massive series of rock thrones.

One of only two remaining Victorian-era greenhouses in New York.

This mouldering abandoned mental hospital was once a center for progressive healing.

This abandoned ironworks was once the most important military supplier in America.

These World War I shooting range tunnels are now haunted halls of underground graffiti accessed through the roots of a tree.

This abandoned factory on the Hudson River once churned out a million bricks a week.

A retired subway car stands alone in a field in the middle of Queens.

An abandoned tuberculosis hospital moulders on into an uncertain future.

This once sprawling resort now sits abandoned, filled with graffiti and vibrant colors from an era long passed.

The quarry was abandoned over 100 years ago, after a massive ammunition explosion ended in tragedy.

These blingy, baubled skeletons lie in glass boxes inside a baroque Bavarian church.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

An ancient necropolis of magnificent tombs.

The ruins of the suspension bridge hang over Kingsbury Run as a ghost of racial prejudice.

This wall on a street corner in Lower Manhattan has been a blank canvas for a rotation of renowned artists since the 1980s.

A shrine contains nearly 200 statues of the Buddhist deity Jizo, dressed in bibs by parents who have lost a child.

This hobbit-y little hot spring may be the oldest spring used by humans in all of Iceland.

A secret garden in a picturesque Edinburgh village has inspired artists for centuries.