Gary, Indiana was built in 1906 by U.S. Steel from scratch — a planned industrial city designed to produce steel for a nation. At its peak in the 1960s, 178,000...
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Kingston was Canada's first capital — a Royal Military College city, a limestone fortress town and the site of Canada's most notorious federal penitentiary. Its abandoned places carry the weight...
Victoria is British Columbia's capital and one of Canada's most historically layered cities — a Royal Navy headquarters, a gold rush supply port and a Victorian-era colonial capital that built...
Sudbury sits on the Canadian Shield above one of the richest nickel and copper deposits on Earth — and its abandoned landscape reflects a century of extraction, boom-bust cycles and...
Manitoba stretches from the Canadian prairies to the Hudson Bay subarctic — and its abandoned places span the full breadth of that geography. An 18th-century Hudson's Bay Company stone fortress...
Winnipeg sits at the geographic centre of Canada — where the Red and Assiniboine Rivers meet at the Forks, where the CPR crossed the prairies and where the fur trade,...
Halifax is one of the oldest port cities in North America — a Royal Navy headquarters, a WWII convoy staging point and a working harbour whose military and maritime infrastructure...
Brampton sits at the edge of the Greater Toronto Area — a rapidly growing city surrounded by the Credit River valley, the Niagara Escarpment and the rural Ontario countryside that...
Barrie sits on the southern shore of Lake Simcoe — a city shaped by the lumber trade, the railway and the Georgian Bay cottage country economy. Its abandoned landscape reflects...
Vancouver is surrounded by one of the most dramatic landscapes in North America — and hidden in the Coast Range forest, the Fraser Valley and the Pacific coastline are some...
Ontario is Canada's most populous province and its most industrially complex — and it left behind an extraordinary concentration of abandoned places. A WWII prisoner-of-war camp where German officers were...
