Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

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

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

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

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

The remains of a failed attempt at medieval nerdery are hidden deep in the woods of Virginia.

This Tennessee manse was built so opulent that the very utilities doomed it to fail.

An abandoned water sports stadium that has become a haven for graffiti and decay.

Unlike other abandoned asylums this empty institution welcomes visitors, just don't go in the buildings.

This lovely university observatory continues to sit abandoned since its potential savior was sent to jail for fraud.

What was once the second largest steel mill in the US is now a sprawling complex of modern ruins.

This abandoned cemetery has a dark past of bodies buried over bodies.

A key producer of charcoal iron in the early 1800s, the structure still stands today.

The haunting remains of a failed housing development can still be found behind the big box stores that were to anchor them.

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

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

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.

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

Jacksonville's highways rendered this century-old grammar school unusable.

A century-old network of freight tunnels underneath the city's historic business district.

An abandoned theme park with a strange and tumultuous past.

The abandoned bathhouse is all that remains of the hot springs considered Florida's original tourist attraction.