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Old Car City USA

White, Georgia

More than four thousand vintage vehicles rust beneath trees along miles of wooded junkyard trails.

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Monson Center

Hollis, New Hampshire

Walk the cellar holes and vanished streets of an eighteenth-century ghost town.

Concrete tower ruins of Monte Ne standing at the edge of Beaver Lake

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Monte Ne Ruins

Rogers, Arkansas

The remains of a failed Ozark resort emerge from Beaver Lake when the water level falls.

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Madame Sherri Forest

Chesterfield, New Hampshire

A ruined party chateau and broken stone staircase hide in a protected forest.

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Cape Henlopen Fire Control Towers

Lewes, Delaware

Concrete towers built to watch for enemy ships still loom over Delaware's beaches like abandoned sentinels.

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Dungeness Ruins

St. Marys, Georgia

Wild horses wander around the roofless shell of a Carnegie mansion on a ferry-only barrier island.

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Benson Park

Hudson, New Hampshire

Walk a public park where an elephant house and gorilla house outlived the zoo.

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Central State Hospital

Milledgeville, Georgia

A vast former mental-hospital campus contains monumental buildings, quiet cemeteries, and difficult institutional history.

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Cape May Point Beach Bunker

Lower Township, New Jersey

A once-camouflaged World War II battery now stands exposed on the beach.

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SS Atlantus Concrete Shipwreck

Lower Township, New Jersey

The broken hull of a World War I concrete ship still juts from the Delaware Bay.

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Dinosaur World

Beaver, Arkansas

A giant King Kong and decaying dinosaurs survive from a closed Ozark theme park once billed as the world's largest.

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Splendid China Florida

Kissimmee, Florida

Once featuring miniature recreations of China's most famous landmarks spread across a 76-acre park, Splendid China Florida was one of the most unusual theme parks ever…