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Explore 481 abandoned sites across the country, from ruins of old factories and zoos to mysterious ghost ships and bridges. Atlas Obscura is your guide to the world's hidden wonders.
Nov 18, 2015 · October 14, 2022. Gleb Tarro/Getty. There is something both eerie and striking about abandoned places. Whether it’s a train cemetery in Bolivia, an Art Deco subway station underneath New York...
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Matthew Christopher's Abandoned America: a hauntingly beautiful urban exploration chronicle of the abandoned buildings in our midst and their fascinating histories. Abandoned America is one of the leading collections of American ruins on the internet, with hundreds of derelict buildings to explore.
Jul 21, 2023 · Elana Klein and Frank Olito. Updated. Jul 21, 2023, 11:07 AM PDT. Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia. MISHELLA/Shutterstock. From castles to churches, structures all over the world have...
- Murphys Ranch
- S.S. Garden City
- Bombay Beach
- Lake Dolores Waterpark
- George Air Force Base
- Chemung Mine
- Bayshore Roundhouse
- Fannette Island Tea House
- Bodie Ghost Town
- SS Palo Alto
34.07036, -118.51458 History: A sanctuary established by Nazi sympathizers is located in Pacific Palisades, California. A 3.8-mile circle track leads down to the remains of a little plot of property with a nearly mythical past. Winona and Norman Stephens were persuaded by a German named Herr Schmidtduring WWII in the late 1930s. He fell for the ide...
38.0537, -122.2006 History: The Garden City, which was built in 1879, was 208 feet long, weighed 1,080 tons, and had a crew of 19 men. The riverboat could transport passengers as well as automobiles into San Francisco. It was permanently anchored at the Eckley Pier in the Carquinez Strait, where it served as a fishing resort until the 1970s, when i...
33.29865, -115.95611 History: The Colorado River broke through a canal in 1905 and burst into this barren desert valley, creating a habitat for hundreds of fish and birds. In the 1950s, Bombay Beach and a few other resorts sprung up and flourished. For people who live in the surrounding areas, the Salton Sea is quite dangerous. Rising and dropping ...
34.94823, -116.68748 History: The Mojave Desert in California is home to the Lake Dolores Waterpark. Local businessman Bob Byers built a waterpark on the eastern edge of the Mojave Desert in the 1950s with the intention to construct a park not just as a financial enterprise, but also to provide entertainment for his big family. The water park first...
34.58236, -117.36071 History: The George Air Force Base, which covered a massive 5,347 acres, was created during WWII and closed in December 1992. Its goal was to assist tactical fighter operations and provide hazardous and non-hazardous material use and disposal training for aircrews and maintenance workers. More than 250 buildings were constructe...
45.71847, -86.67032 History: Chemung lies just one and a half miles west of the Nevada border, at a height of 8,000 feet. In 1909, the Chemung mine was discovered. More than a million dollars in gold ore was extracted at the Chemung Mine and Mill. Chemung has been demolished and rebuilt three times. This was bad for business, but the gold mines wer...
37.70174, -122.40675 History: Between 1907 and 1910, the famous Bayshore Roundhouse was constructed. A roundhouse is a structure used for storing and maintaining railroad steam engines on a regular basis. Mainline steam engines were built to pull trains that were predominantly faced forward. Freight engines were maintained at Bayshore Roundhouse, w...
38.95416, -120.10039 History: Fannette Island, located in Emerald Bay near the lake’s west side, is the only island in Lake Tahoe. Ben Holladay Jr. built a two-story, five-room resort on Emerald Bay in 1862, and in 1863, he engaged Captain Richard Barter to be the resort’s keeper and to live there during the winter. Mrs. Lora Josephine Knight later...
38.2133, -119.01512 History: The community of Bodie was founded in the summer of 1859, when four daring prospectors ventured into the Eastern Sierra foothills in pursuit of mineral riches. In the summer of 1892, a cooking fire destroyed part of the town to the west of Main Street. The settlement was restored, but the harm had been done, and numerou...
36.96946, -121.91385 History: The Palo Alto was launched on May 29, 1919, by the San Francisco Shipbuilding Company in Oakland, California, as an oil tanker. The S. S. Palo Alto (“The Cement Boat”) is the most famous concrete ship on the west coast. The ship was parked in the bay, with a lengthy pier connecting it to the shoreline. The ship was out...
Oct 3, 2019 · Explore the haunting history and beauty of abandoned places around the world, from historic cities and castles to creepy train stations and islands. Learn about the stories behind these eerie sites, from war-torn Sarajevo to the abandoned Olympic venues in Sarajevo.
Sep 18, 2021 · Sep 18, 2021, 5:11 AM PDT. Bryan Sansivero has spent years photographing abandoned places across the US. Bryan Sansivero has spent the last decade photographing America's abandoned homes. He...
