America's abandoned stadiums are the most emotionally loaded structures in the urbex landscape — arenas that held 80,000 people for the World Series, the Super Bowl and heavyweight championship fights,...
America's abandoned power plants are the most architecturally monumental category of industrial ruin — turbine halls the size of cathedrals, cooling towers 500 feet high visible from 20 miles away...
America's abandoned islands are among the most extraordinary urbex destinations in the country — quarantine hospitals where Typhoid Mary spent her final 26 years, a potter's field where over a...
America's Gilded Age produced some of the most extravagant private residences ever built — 110-room neoclassical palaces, Hudson River Gothic castles and island villas so remote their owners died before...
America's abandoned ships are among the most haunting urbex experiences in the country — ghost fleets of WWI wooden vessels sinking in a Maryland river, the rusting hull of the...
America's abandoned airports carry the particular melancholy of infrastructure built for optimism — runways laid for a future that didn't arrive, terminals designed for crowds that stopped coming, control towers...
America's abandoned resorts are monuments to leisure that time abandoned — grand Catskills hotels where Mel Brooks and Jerry Seinfeld launched their careers from stages now open to the sky,...
Between 1910 and 1930, America built the most extravagant movie theaters the world had ever seen — gilded lobbies, frescoed ceilings, Wurlitzer organs and auditoriums seating 4,000. Then television arrived,...
America's abandoned schools carry a particular emotional weight — chalk still on the blackboard, desks still arranged for children who never came back, gym floors warping under decades of water...
America's abandoned bridges are infrastructure poetry — steel and concrete spanning rivers, canyons and ravines for purposes that technology or economics rendered obsolete. A 347-foot-high railroad trestle in a Washington...
America's abandoned churches carry a particular emotional power — Gothic arches open to the sky, stained glass collapsed into the nave, choir lofts where ferns now grow. Churches are the...
America's abandoned factories are the Rust Belt made visible — the steel mills, blast furnaces and production plants that made the United States the industrial capital of the world, now...
