Where the alchemists dream of transmuting base metal into gold was actually achieved.

The abandoned coal loading dock is a canvas for unsanctioned art.

The largest guitar store in the world has been visited by some of music's all-time greats passing through upstate New York.

A frozen relic of Seattle's hydroelectric boom is now a teaching facility for future engineers.

This graffiti-covered bridge is the quintessential vision of a place for disillusioned youth to escape the complexities of burgeoning adulthood.

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

An abandoned Jazz Age dream home and con man's hideout in Death Valley.

Abandoned concert venue legendary for its rock counterculture.

World's first "penitentiary," meant to be humane, drove men insane.

Abandoned Air Force base that has fallen into disrepair.

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

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

Destroyed by flood waters, prison now serves as a training ground for armed forces.

A late sculptor's last project was to turn this abandoned cement factory into a castle-themed amusement park.

A tunnel once abandoned now thrives with graffiti art as an off-limits makeshift gallery.

Undone by Prohibition, this abandoned brewery-turned-flour mill is now ready for its third act.

Abandoned power station once home to a squatter community, now being developed into an arts center.

Beneath the mossy overgrowth covering this once-sprawling campus lies decades of history and the secrets that come with it.

A spooky and decrepit mental health facility is slowly being replaced with newer digs.

The most unloved grain elevator in Brooklyn was a “Magnificent Mistake.”

A formerly abandoned mental institute, now back in business.

From scholastic to sepulchral - now under reconstruction.

An abandoned horticulture institute gloomily presides over rows of derelict and vine-wrought greenhouses.

An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.