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An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole. ALCATRAZ, ALSO REFERRED TO AS “The Rock,” is...

FROM THE 19TH TO MID-20TH century, huge asylums were constructed around the United States that acted as their own closed communities,...

Decades after testing the polio vaccine on unwitting patients, this historic mental hospital sits in ruin. THE HAMLET OF THIELLS,...

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune. IN 1886, SARAH WINCHESTER TRAVELED from New Haven,...

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island. FEW DISEASES HAVE HAD A greater impact on the history of human...

There’s more to this 19th-century crime than the dark side of fairy lore. The cottage where Michael Cleary murdered his...

AS THE BIRCH AND SPRUCE forests of Newfoundland’s southern coast begin to speckle and sparkle with bright yellow, a familiar and frightening...

This 19th-century island fort built to protect against an invasion by sea. STACK ROCK FORT SITS ON a rocky island about...

Inside the abandoned Chanute Air Force Base in Rantoul, Illinois. (All photos: Walter Arnold Photography) WALTER ARNOLD HAS SPENT THE last six...

Between 1850 and 1852, a mighty, squat stone fort rose from a low-lying island in the Milford Haven Waterway in Wales....