Missouri's abandoned landscape holds one of the most unusual stories in American environmental history — an entire town evacuated after dioxin contamination and transformed into a state park, the ruins...
Mississippi's abandoned landscape carries the full weight of the antebellum South — 23 Corinthian columns standing in a field where a plantation mansion burned in 1890, an entire ghost town...
Maryland's abandoned landscape punches far above its size — a federally-owned asylum where children were buried without names along a river bank, a 1934 tuberculosis campus of 23 buildings in...
Maine's abandoned landscape is defined by remoteness and the relentless New England forest — a pre-Civil War iron furnace standing in the boreal wilderness since 1890, Cold War bomber base...
Louisiana's abandoned landscape is unlike any other American state — the subtropical climate, the Mississippi River, and 300 years of French, Spanish, Creole, and American history layered on top of...
Kansas's abandoned landscape is hidden in plain sight across the Great Plains — Cold War missile silos buried under wheat fields, ghost towns along the old cattle trails, a contaminated...
Iowa's abandoned landscape is shaped by the Great Plains agricultural economy and the small towns that supported it — railroad towns bypassed when lines were consolidated, coal mining communities emptied...
Indiana's abandoned landscape extends far beyond Gary — the state includes a psychiatric hospital that held 2,500 patients in Indianapolis, a 1970s water park covered in graffiti near Bloomington, a...
Idaho's abandoned landscape is defined by silver and gold — the mining booms of the 1870s-1890s built entire cities in mountain canyons and then emptied them within a generation when...
Hawaii is paradise — but beneath the resorts and beaches lies an abandoned landscape shaped by disease, war, and the collapse of the sugar and pineapple plantations that once defined...
Delaware is the smallest state in America — but its history is disproportionately large. A pentagonal granite Civil War prison fortress on a river island that killed 2,500 Confederate prisoners....
Connecticut is the smallest New England state — but its abandoned landscape packs a punch beyond its size. A 1930 Art Deco tuberculosis sanatorium on the Long Island Sound shore....
