Eagle Mountain, CA: From Boom to Bust to Boom to Bust
The United States has many ghost towns scattered throughout the West. Most have the same story: A deposit of some precious metal is discovered,...
World’s Largest Old Car Junkyard: Old Car City U.S.A.
Fifty miles north of Atlanta, a 34-acre compound houses one of the largest car collections in the world. But this collection doesn’t have polished...
Swannanoa: Deconstructing an American Palace
With its Carrara marble, terraced English gardens, and Tiffany stained glass, Swannanoa is one of the few Virginia estates that can rival the Gilded...
The Story of Gennie Pilarski
Genevieve "Gennie" Pilarski quietly passed away in her nursing home room one September day in 1998 at the age of 79. Few noticed or...
Glenn Dale Hospital: Tuberculosis Sanatorium, Asbestos Asylum
Thirty minutes east of Washington D.C., a collection of brick buildings are deteriorating on a sixty-acre campus buried in a residential pocket of Glenn...
ADX Florence: The U.S.’s Most Secure Prison
ADX Florence, built south of Florence Colorado in 1994, is the maximum security prison in the United States prison system. Commonly referred to as...
