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    Largest Abandoned Factory in the World: The Packard Factory, Detroit

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    Packard was a premier nameplate in the United States, mentioned in the same breath as Duesenberg, Cadillac, Pierce-Arrow, and Lincoln. The crown jewel for...
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    Casualties of Copper: The Berkeley Pit, Montana

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    Tales of gold rushes and silver booms are often recounted from a nostalgic perspective, driven by tall tales of adventures into the lawless Wild...
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    City United Methodist Church of Gary, Indiana

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    Perhaps one of the most iconic abandoned structures in Gary, City United Methodist Church was once the pride of the community. Built in 1925,...
    Action Park

    There Was Nothing in the World Like Action Park

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    Action Park was one of the first water parks in the United States, and by the time it closed in 1996 it was the...

    Buried from the public: Hart Island, New York

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    At first glance this modest island in New York appears unremarkable. The 131-acre dark speck of land has crumbling buildings, is off-limits to the...

    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...
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    Uncovering the history of the abandoned, forgotten, and unexplained.