On the peak of Beech Mountain in North Carolina lies a defunct, Wizard-of-Oz-themed amusement park. It’s a surreal sight for sure, but it’s far from abandoned.

In Breezewood, PA, a ruin for the masses: a publicly accessible, 13-mile stretch of abandoned highway, begging to be explored.

Deep in the woods of a small, Pennsylvania town, 50 or so vintage streetcars are slowly falling to ruin.

In rural Virginia, a local business man has collected 20-foot-tall busts of every past U.S. President – and put them out to pasture.

In South Carolina, one man has lived in an abandoned elementary school for nearly a decade. Here’s his story.

Feeling nostalgic? In Maryland and Delaware, a pair of abandoned cinemas that will never show a film again.

In just a few months, a piece of Pennsylvania’s industrial history will come tumbling down. Here’s a look inside the Huber Coal Breaker.

In the latest installment of our Abandoned D.C. series, we’re taking you honeymooning in the Poconos. Get your leisure suit.

You can help WAMU and Transportation Nation map the city’s abandoned bicycles.

Many a movie start this way — a newborn infant is left on someone’s doorstep, most often a loving family that nurtures the child so that it can become a well-rounded adult. But the reality certainly isn’t so happy.