A beautiful and abandoned New York subway station from 1904, complete with chandelier.

A classic roadside attraction on Vermont's historic Route 5.

An abandoned relic of the city's failed experiment with below ground transit.

A labor of love built by local hang-gliding enthusiasts, this ideal launch spot was outlawed by the authorities and has since been largely abandoned.

A Bicycle Path in the Sky.

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

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

This dilapidated castle-like structure overlooks the Hudson River at one of its widest points and was once home to nuns.

An abandoned Gold Coast-era mansion once intended for the exiled ruler of Albania, who never arrived.

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

During the 1990's nearly all of the world's LSD is thought to have come from the operators of the lab once located in this missile silo.

An abandoned meat mecca now serves as an excellent locale for urban exploration.

A girls' boarding school inspired by the Chicago World's Fair, once abandoned, now restored to strange and scenic glory.

An urban forest overtakes what was the greatest failure of utopic urban housing.

When this test site was abandoned, they didn't even bother to take the rocket with them.

This Tennessee manse was built so opulent that the very utilities doomed it to fail.

The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.

Decades after testing the polio vaccine on unwitting patients, this historic mental hospital sits in ruin.

Ruined pieces of stone and a swimming pool are all that remain of an amusement park swept away by a flood.

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

The ruins of a cotton mill that was burned in the Civil War are still hidden in a Georgia forest.

The ruins of a Massachusetts prison farm can still be found crumbling the woods of a state park.

This abandoned Poconos resort is haunted by a history of kitschy romance and a violent fugitive.

This huge, disused viaduct is now a crumbling concrete underworld of covered in years of graffiti.