Previously: The Ghost Ship McBarge. I realize that perhaps a disproportionate number of the locations I’ve been dealing with in “Abandoned” are former hospitals or psychiatric centers. There's just Continue Reading > about Abandoned: Kings Park Psychiatric Center, Long Island, New York (Photos)
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Abandoned: The Dying Light of America’s Drive-In Movie Theaters (Photos)
Previously: The Penn Hills Resort. I love a good multiplex with stadium seating and IMAX screens as much as the next girl — but there's nothing quite like a good old-fashioned drive-in Continue Reading > about Abandoned: The Dying Light of America’s Drive-In Movie Theaters (Photos)
Abandoned: The Decaying Penn Hills Resort in the Poconos (Photos)
Previously: The Dead Malls of America. If travel into the Pocono Mountains region in Monroe County, Pennsylvania, you’ll find an odd sight located off of Route 447 in the town of Analomink: An Continue Reading > about Abandoned: The Decaying Penn Hills Resort in the Poconos (Photos)
Haunted Road Trip: Lake Shawnee Amusement Park, Princeton, West Virginia
Previously: TGIMM Special Edition: Clinton Road. The (usually racist) theme of a modern construction being built atop a “Native American burial ground” and subsequently experiencing strange Continue Reading > about Haunted Road Trip: Lake Shawnee Amusement Park, Princeton, West Virginia
Abandoned: The Fading History of the Knox County Poorhouse (Photos)
Previously: The Sanzhi UFO Houses. In Victorian literature, there’s always one place you never, ever want to go, even if you’re as down on your luck as it’s possible to be: The poorhouse. Such was Continue Reading > about Abandoned: The Fading History of the Knox County Poorhouse (Photos)
Abandoned: The Sanzhi UFO Houses and the Future That Never Was (Photos)
Previously: The Harlem Valley Psychiatric Center. In 1978, construction began on a curious new housing development in the Sanzhi District of New Taipei City, Taiwan. Intended to be a resort Continue Reading > about Abandoned: The Sanzhi UFO Houses and the Future That Never Was (Photos)
Abandoned: The Last Remnants of the Harlem Valley Psychiatric Center (Photos)
Previously: North Brother Island. In upstate New York, there’s a town called Dover. Within Dover is a hamlet known as Wingdale, and in Wingdale lies the ruins of the Harlem Valley Psychiatric Continue Reading > about Abandoned: The Last Remnants of the Harlem Valley Psychiatric Center (Photos)
Abandoned: Pripyat and the Chernobyl Disaster (Photos)
Previously: The 1984 Winter Olympics. On April 26, 1986—a Saturday—a systems test began at reactor number four of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Pripyat, Ukraine. The steam to the turbines Continue Reading > about Abandoned: Pripyat and the Chernobyl Disaster (Photos)