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    North America

    Bannerman’s Castle on the Hudson

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    On a lonely island fifty miles north of New York City, the bricks of a once-proud castle slowly return to the earth. The crumbling...

    Ghosts of the Duluth, Missabe, and Iron Range Railroad

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    Northern Minnesota's economy has been powered by locomotives for over one hundred and thirty years. The ensuing boom after the nineteenth-century discovery of iron...
    Irish Hills Towers

    Revenant of the Irish Hills Towers

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    In the early twentieth century the Michigan Observation Company built a tower in the Irish Hills of southeastern Michigan. This annoyed a neighbor, who...
    Pressmen's Home Trade School building

    Relic From a Bygone Era: Pressmen’s Home, Tennessee

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    Located in the hills of Eastern Tennessee, this abandoned complex was once home to the International Printing Pressmen and Assistants Union of North America....
    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...
    Hudson River State Hospital

    Hudson River State Hospital: Fourteen Decades of Mental Hygiene

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    Welcome to the Hudson River State Hospital, the first High Victorian Gothic institution built in the United States. Located in Poughkeepsie, New York, it...
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    Uncovering the history of the abandoned, forgotten, and unexplained.