The location of the last stand of Charles Manson's doomsday cult.

This old mining town, deep in the California desert, has a year-round population of one.

A mining town, now abandoned, was built in a canyon so narrow that the railroad ran right through the hotel lobby.

The abandoned husk of a mental institution that failed to save a Jazz Age icon still sits nearly unchanged.

Collapsing castle on the Hudson river was once the storage site of military surplus business.

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

A ruined mansion hidden in the woods of the Hudson Valley, home of a tragically doomed romance.

Reforestation in action is the main attraction in this abandoned quarry.

Rusting away on the edge of New Jersey are the remains of a Cold War missile launch site.

The graffitied ruins stand hidden within the Pennsylvania woods.

In the heart of Brigham Young's promised land sits a festering plot of industrial ruin that has been claimed by society's outcasts.

The remains of a World War II munitions factory still haunt the fields of this Twin Cities suburb.

A partial tunnel blasted into a steep ridge is all that remains of a failed railway across Arizona.

Collection of trolley cars in the woods represent one man's attempt to preserve transportation history.

Despite not growing anywhere near New York City, bananas are ripened in a pressurized room in the Bronx using precise banana science.

A former connection to City Island, it has been abandoned since the 1930s.

This airfield is home to a number of retired vintage planes in various states of disrepair.

The scant remains of this flooded historic village can be explored in one of the most remote areas of the Great Smokies.

An abandoned town is hidden in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

A deteriorating 1990s Girl Scout camp in a beautiful lush park on Lake Ontario.

The abandoned medieval theme park was meant to be the "Disneyland of the Philippines."

Strange beasts lurking in a garden are all that remain of a quirky, short-lived theme park.

This former theme park in New York's Adirondack Mountains fell into ruin before being resurrected as a state-run campground

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