Philadelphia is America's first great city — and its abandoned landscape carries the weight of that history with unusual darkness. A prison where a doctor spent 23 years conducting illegal...
Atlanta is one of America's fastest-growing cities — but beneath the skyscrapers and highways lie the ruins of a very different Atlanta. A 27-acre railcar repair yard that became a...
Washington State's abandoned landscape is shaped by the Cascade Mountains and the Pacific — a state where gold rush mining towns were swallowed by the wilderness in a single generation,...
Detroit defined American urban decay for a generation — a city that built 40% of the world's cars at its peak and then watched its population collapse from 1.8 million...
Utah's abandoned landscape is defined by desert — the driest climate in the continental United States preserving structures for generations that would crumble in a decade anywhere wetter. Mormon pioneer...
New Jersey sits between New York and Philadelphia — and its abandoned landscape reflects a state that industrialized early, institutionalized massively and has been trying to redevelop ever since. WWI...
Illinois sits at the crossroads of American industry — Chicago's slaughterhouses, steel mills and rail yards built the modern economy, while the smaller cities of the Rust Belt corridor were...
Miami develops faster than almost any American city — which makes its abandoned sites genuinely rare and genuinely urgent. A concrete powerboat racing stadium on Biscayne Bay closed since Hurricane...
Long Island extends 118 miles from New York City into the Atlantic Ocean — and its abandoned landscape is as layered as its geography. A psychiatric campus with 150+ buildings...
Las Vegas reinvents itself faster than any city in America — old casinos are demolished overnight to make way for the next spectacle. But the desert surrounding the Strip hides...
Wisconsin's abandoned landscape is shaped by its dual identity — an industrial state that built breweries, mental hospitals and Cold War military infrastructure, and an agricultural heartland where small towns...
Georgia's abandoned landscape spans from antebellum plantation ruins to the largest psychiatric institution ever built on Earth. A hospital that held 12,000 patients in the 1950s across 200 buildings on...
