Bannerman Castle sits on on Pollepel Island—more colloquially, Bannerman’s Island—a small isle on the Hudson River. Francis Bannerman, a Scottish American munitions dealer
Track 61, the abandoned transit stop was built as part of the New York Central Railroad, now the Metro-North, for storage for unused trains.
Fordlandia sounds like it should be an amusement park for car lovers. While it never housed rollercoasters or fun houses, the Brazilian city was indeed the brain child of Henry Ford
The Crystal Palace Subway was created to provide easy access to its namesake, the Crystal Palace, a cast-iron-and-glass building once located in Hyde Park in London.
Łapalice Castle is not as old as it appears: Construction started on the Renaissance-inspired castle in the late ’70s.
There is a whole bay of abandoned hotels in Kupari, Croatia, less than 10 miles from Dubrovnik. Once a collection of seven luxury properties, the complex could host thousands of guests in the 1960s.
The homes in Wanli UFO village look a bit like what futurists of the 1950s thought the 21st century would look like—minus, of course, all of the overgrown nature and crumbling interiors.