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

See just what life was like in a 19th-century prospecting town.

The ghostly remains of what was once the world's richest copper mine.

This abandoned caretaker's apartment is one of 13 left in the New York Public Library system.

This abandoned psychiatric hospital once housed more than 4,000 patients in the middle of a quaint New England town.

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

This abandoned school has had many lives since the early 1900s, and all of them doomed.

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.

Ship skeletons haunt Baltimore's waterways.

A long-vacant Scottish Rite temple in Hollywood has been converted into an art museum filled with Masonic relics.

All that remains of this abandoned coal town is a beautiful, haunting cemetery.

An eerie, decaying ghost town destined to fade into the forest.

Remnants of a storybook amusement park hidden behind a strip mall.

A mine fire has been burning under the deserted town since 1962, but this church is still going strong.

This isolated airport in the middle of the Everglades sees more alligators than planes.

This off-the-beaten-path abandoned town is a relic of Montana's silver mining boom.

An abandoned underground bunker not far from downtown New Orleans.

This vacant station is a relic of harvest processing techniques of the mid-20th century.

Buffalo's abandoned concrete grain elevators are getting a second life.