South Dakota's abandoned landscape stretches from 802 WWII munitions bunkers scattered across the Black Hills prairie like a science fiction setting to gold rush ghost towns in the Badlands and...
Pennsylvania's abandoned landscape is one of the richest in America — an entire town built over a coal mine fire that has been burning since 1962, a 1908 institution for...
Oregon's abandoned landscape spans the entire width of a state that contains three completely different geographies — the rainy coast, the Cascade Range, and the high desert plateau east of...
Oklahoma's abandoned landscape tells the story of America's most dramatic boom-and-bust cycles — the 1889 Land Run that created cities overnight, the oil derricks that made Oklahoma the world's most...
Ohio's abandoned landscape is the Rust Belt at its most concentrated — the steel mills and rubber factories that built American industrial supremacy left behind some of the most architecturally...
North Dakota is one of America's least visited states — and its abandoned landscape reflects the harsh reality of Great Plains settlement. Towns that never found enough people to survive....
North Carolina's abandoned landscape carries the distinctive character of the American South — a cotton mill village that became the filming location for The Hunger Games, Appalachian mining towns in...
New York State's abandoned landscape extends far beyond New York City — a munitions castle on a Hudson River island, a Victorian psychiatric hospital designed by Frederick Law Olmsted in...
New Mexico's abandoned landscape is shaped by three centuries of boom and bust — Spanish colonial missions crumbling into the desert, Route 66 ghost towns along the Texas border, and...
New Hampshire is New England's most mountainous state — and its abandoned landscape reflects the industries the White Mountains built and then abandoned. A French-inspired castle built by an eccentric...
Nevada is the most abandoned state per capita in America — the driest climate in the continental US preserving ghost towns for over a century while the boom-and-bust mining economy...
Nebraska's abandoned landscape is the Great Plains at its most authentic — a village with a population of one surrounded by empty buildings, Oregon Trail pioneer ruins weathering on the...
