A remote coral island with a gristly history of shipwreck, battles, and a horrendous war crime.

A desperate final message left by a POW on the run serves as a memorial for himself and the 97 that died with him.

Remote, volcanic island that Darwin, Hooker, and the Royal Navy shaped into a thriving, artificial ecosystem.

A high-octane shrine to the greatest Texans who ever lived.

A small island hides in plain sight on Austin's Lady Bird Lake.

In paradise, feral pigs have claimed an island all to themselves.

The North Carolina grounds are leased in perpetuity to the British Commonwealth for as long as the WWII sailors are buried there.

Small, privately owned island divided between Michigan and Ohio with abandoned vacation homes and a derelict lighthouse.

The first military newspaper in U.S. history was printed in Bloomfield, Missouri.

Two gems of Beaux Arts architecture that have been sitting vacant for years.

A former hospital is now home to a pizza parlor and maybe a few ghosts.

A paradise hotel turned from opulent to overgrown.

This abandoned 19th century orphanage started as a boarding school for children of Civil War veterans.

More than 3,200 cookie jars line the walls and shelves of this little shop and over 1,000 salt and pepper shakers

Locals dubbed this abandoned abode the "gingerbread house" because of its odd architecture.

Walk the same tracks that once ferried Gilded Age aristocrats to their vacation destinations.

The once-abandoned 140-year-old hotel used in the movie "In Dreams."

This factory made "health corsets" that were a step towards liberating women's bodies.

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

An abandoned Depression-era zoo hidden just off the highway.

A former zoo turned public park, where visitors can hang out in the old animal cages.

A forsaken wonder in the middle of the East Side neighborhood.

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

The abandoned ruins of America's first private zoo are open for exploration in the Catskills.