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    Mallows Bay ships

    The Ghost Fleet of Mallows Bay

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    On the Maryland side of the Potomac River just west of Chesapeake Bay, the largest shipwreck fleet in the Western Hemisphere sits half-sunk and...

    The Disappearing Aral Sea

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    Over one hundred ships are mysteriously abandoned in this desert in central Asia. You rub your eyes, but it's not an optical illusion; no...
    Fort Carroll

    Fort Carroll: Secure Bird Sanctuary?

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    In the mid-nineteenth century, Baltimore’s ports needed increased protection along the Patapsco River for the routes between Baltimore and Chesapeake Bay. By 1848, the...
    Manteno State Hospital

    Manteno State Hospital

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    In 1927 the state of Illinois purchased over 1,000 acres of land earmarked for a massive mental health complex to become known as Manteno...
    Kantubek Russia

    Abandoned Anthrax: Vozrozhdeniye Island

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    The Aral Sea was known as “the Sea of Islands,” and once upon a time this camp – now in the middle of the desert...

    St. Francis Dam: Worst U.S. Engineering Disaster of the 20th Century

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    The collapse of the St. Francis Dam in 1928 is one of the worst catastrophes of the twentieth century. Today it is an engineering...
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    Uncovering the history of the abandoned, forgotten, and unexplained.