An abandoned theme park with a strange and tumultuous past.

Ruins of the elaborate house where the enigmatic costume designer threw glamorous parties for New York's theatrical elite.

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

Abandoned since the 1950s, the streetcar lane beneath the heavily trafficked bridge lays empty and unused.

One of the most poignant ruins of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, the local football team's stadium has been quickly reclaimed by nature.

One of the largest-ever mental hospitals now sits abandoned, surrounded by 25,000 unmarked graves.

An iconic steel and chrome diner from the 1940s left empty for nearly 20 years is in danger of being demolished.

In the woods of New Jersey lie the ruins of a munitions village abandoned after World War I and the remnants of a 1920s wooden racetrack.

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

Meant to be one of the most extravagant hotels in the world, now an eerie, abandoned architectural gem in Mexico City.

Ship skeletons haunt Baltimore's waterways.

This forgotten building was one of the few Philadelphia-area breweries to survive Prohibition.

Plenty of old carney magic still haunts this photogenic amusement park.

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

This former abandoned hospital, a complex of stunning 19th century buildings, once housed 2,000 psychiatric patients.

The hidden offices underneath Memorial Bridge have been locked up since 1976.

An eight-sided home built during a brief octagon craze in the 1850s.

This crumbling Art Deco movie palace in Mexico City has been abandoned for two decades.

Crumbling ruins of the thermal baths that once attracted royals and aristocrats from throughout Europe.

A rare pod of derelict midcentury Futuro and Venturo houses lines a semi-abandoned beachfront resort outside Taipei.

This daunting 1st century fortress was purportedly the site of one of the most dramatic revolts of the Jewish-Roman wars.

A line of abandoned, alien-like fortresses dot the mountains of North Italy.

The ruins of a 19th century shelter run by the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

The remains of a century-old mansion that met a fiery demise years after it was deserted.