Why are decaying buildings and abandoned places so fascinating?

A long-lost iron mine. A once-grand dame showplace for major entertainers. A lost subway. The great, sometimes creepy, abandoned places in Upstate New York offer a unique vision into the backstory of ...

They are hidden in the woods, walls crumbling after falling victim to the elements. They sit dormant along rural roads, frozen in time. They are the ghosts of buildings past, abandoned long ago and ...

Nevada offers more than just slot machines and neon lights. Scattered across its high desert, ghost towns and forgotten structures stand as testaments to boom-and-bust cycles that swept through mining ...

Abandoned places have a unique allure, often capturing the imagination with their eerie beauty and mysterious histories. In America, countless derelict sites appear almost cinematic, as if they’ve ...

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Louisiana officials are not keeping track of hundreds of abandoned oil and gas structures off the state’s coast, according to a recent report from a labor organization. True Transition, which ...