An abandoned Gold Coast-era mansion once intended for the exiled ruler of Albania, who never arrived.

Cemetery featuring rare glass-fronted columbarium.

An abandoned marine theme park has created a difficult experiment in dolphin rewilding.

A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.

The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.

A crumbling wizard is one of the final reminders of a roadside Middle Earth.

Vietnam's feral abandoned water park offers access to a post-apocalyptic funscape, now with fewer crocodiles.

This former theme park in New York's Adirondack Mountains fell into ruin before being resurrected as a state-run campground

A semi-abandoned replica of Prince Edward Island's Avonlea—in Japan.

An abandoned Victorian-era amusement park is rusting away amidst luxury houses.

An abandoned theme park with a strange and tumultuous past.

An abandoned amusement park hints at the twisted history of the Newfoundland Railway.

Plenty of old carney magic still haunts this photogenic amusement park.

The abandoned medieval theme park was meant to be the "Disneyland of the Philippines."

This medieval castle was painted pink as part of a now-abandoned children's theme park.

This public space is speckled with the eerie remnants of a defunct amusement park.

The remains of a chapel created for convenience.

A historic blockhouse and trading post give a glimpse into the early colonial history of South Carolina.

Paths are maintained, but trees have taken over plots.

Amazing pre-Civil War ruins alongside a shallow, rocky river that hosts beautiful (but endangered) lilies.

Settled in 1696, abandoned after the Revolutionary War.

Despite being burnt down multiple times, the ruins of this South Carolina church are still standing.

The taxidermied remains of Charles Dickens' pet raven, which helped inspire one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poems.

This railroad track was so secretive that it was omitted from all maps.