Abandoned Mansions, Houses, Towns and Cemeteries 

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

Where America's first doomsday cult awaited the end of the world.

A stone arch leads to a cavernous 1930s spring house tucked away in the Pennsylvania woods.

Over 100 concrete munitions bunkers are all that remain of a Pennsylvanian village seized by the US government.

These beautiful ruins deep in the Pennsylvania woods are thought to have been a ski lodge or a speakeasy, but no one really knows.

The remains of a community that was forced to move for a dam that never materialized still rot in this Pennsylvania park.

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

America's first serial killer rests in anonymity.

The mortal remains of a Russian prince, priest and paranormal investigator who came to America in 1792.

The final resting place of two members of the infamous Doan gang, notorious outlaws and Revolutionary War Loyalists.

Dozens upon dozens of boulders engraved with scripture tell the story of one man's troubled life.

It marks the spooky spot where the bodies of two young boys were found in the 19th century.

Series of storm drains connected to a dark urban legend.

The remains of a 19th century spring, and the site of an infamous unsolved murder.

Along the Palisades skyline are the ruins of a large mansion built in 1911 and demolished in the 1930s.

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.

A recently abandoned psych ward at the end of Sanatorium Road.

This Great Depression-era creation was once known as the strangest house in the world.

Now abandoned, the first public health hospital in the U.S. saw more than one million immigrants from around the world.

Rusting away on the edge of New Jersey are the remains of a Cold War missile launch site.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

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

The haunting, dilapidated remains of a former poorhouse on Staten Island's Greenbelt.

The loneliest island in New York.

This Central New York ghost town was once a prosperous railroad community.

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

Hundreds of numbered stakes hidden in the woods mark the graves of the lost souls of a nearby asylum.

An abandoned asylum where patients have been forgotten but their possessions remain.

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

This former theme park in New York's Adirondack Mountains fell into ruin before being resurrected as a state-run campground

This stone gatehouse was once the entrance to a historic mountain resort, and it had a cameo in a cheesy cult horror movie.

This abandoned factory on the Hudson River once churned out a million bricks a week.

This abandoned ironworks was once the most important military supplier in America.

Created by four famous men (Henry Hobson Richardson, Frederick Law Olmsted, Calvert Vaux and Thomas Story Kirkbride), the beautifully designed Buffalo State Asylum was resurrected as a hotel and art center...but still boasts a ghost story or two!

This mouldering abandoned mental hospital was once a center for progressive healing.

This empty Victorian manse on Staten Island is said to be haunted but is actually a real life crime scene.

This Queens hospital has stood abandoned for almost 20 years after its patients were secretly relocated in the dead of night.

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

Once America's longest-manned military fort, now an abandoned hulk.

These mouldering mansion ruins remember a time when the Catskills were nothing but luxury.

A once grand hotel is being retaken by the wilderness it once capitalized on.

Home on the Hillside, and home of the first breakfast cereal.

A millionaire's abandoned swimming pool from the gilded age of one of America's most distinguished families.

A ruined mansion hidden in the woods of the Hudson Valley, home of a tragically doomed romance.