The public poorhouses that you read about in Dickens novels are gone, having been replaced with welfare hotels, housing projects, and homeless shelters. The Knox County Poorhouse in Ohio was once such an institution.Cons...

From Zombieland to Scooby Doo to Silent Hill 3, mo...  ...3, movies, TV shows and games love to incorporate abandoned amusement parks into the storylines because they...  ...ou know things are really going to end badly. But abandoned amusement parks aren’t just found in works...  ...b it. Of course, if mov...

The compound known as Villa Sbertoli in Pistoia, Italy, has a creepy history. It was a home turned into an asylum by Professor Augustine Sbertoli in 1868, then was used as a political prison under the Fascist government,...

I've loved big old houses since I was a toddler an...  ...grapher Kevin Bauman as part of his excellent 100 Abandoned Houses project, the 24-block neighbourhood of Mid...

The Kennecott Mine Camp was a booming Alaskan...  ...39 the copper was gone and the several mines were abandoned . However, the Kennecott is in a national park and...

Now isn't this just a lovely thing to have around for the kids? I wish I knew the original source of this picture. It looks like something you may be able to purchase at Etsy, although the human teeth may make it a limit...

Looking for a great place to tell ghost storie...  ...views of the night sky? Well, one of these eerie abandoned observatories might just be the perfect place to...

Clipperton Island is an abandoned atoll in the Pacific Ocean, 1,000 kilometers from...

Everything about the Cold War was creepy. We k...  ...ing symbols of that era are missile silos, mostly abandoned these days, that are too large and expensive to d...

(YouTube link) Warning: this is scary in places...  ...in places. A motorcycle rider cruises through an abandoned highway in Japan. " Abandoned " means there has been no maintenance for years. T...