Louisville sits on the Ohio River at the gateway between the North and the South — and its abandoned landscape reflects the full breadth of that position. A 1910 tuberculosis...
Indianapolis is the capital of Indiana and the crossroads of America — and its abandoned landscape reflects a century of institutional history, industrial decline and the peculiar urban decay of...
St. Louis carries one of the most layered abandoned landscapes of any American city — a brewing dynasty that destroyed itself through a series of suicides after Prohibition, a 57-acre...
Jacksonville is the largest city by area in the contiguous United States — and its sprawling geography along the St. Johns River hides an abandoned landscape shaped by the Civil...
Boston is one of the oldest cities in America — and its abandoned landscape carries nearly four centuries of history. A harbor island quarantine hospital where thousands of immigrants were...
Phoenix grows faster than almost any American city — but the surrounding Sonoran Desert hides an extraordinary concentration of abandoned places that the city's expansion hasn't yet reached. Route 66...
Memphis sits at the crossroads of American music, the Mississippi River and the Deep South — and its abandoned landscape reflects all three. A 1964 sports arena where Elvis performed,...
Seattle is a city that has been reinventing itself since the Great Fire of 1889 burned the original downtown to the ground — and in that reinvention it left behind...
Washington DC is the most heavily surveilled city in America — but beneath the monuments and federal buildings lies a collection of extraordinary abandoned places that most visitors never see....
Wyoming's abandoned landscape is defined by the scale of the American West — gold rush ghost towns at 9,000 feet in the Wind River Range, an 1870s mining city where...
Vermont's abandoned landscape is New England at its most quietly melancholy — logging ghost towns swallowed by second-growth forest, hilltop farms where the family left for the factories in the...
South Dakota's abandoned landscape spans from 802 WWII munitions bunkers standing across the Black Hills prairie like a science fiction landscape to gold rush ghost towns in the Badlands and...
