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TravelGal

I write, travel, drink wine, gaze at clouds, read books and ride a motorbike (not necessarily in this order), in-between working a full-time job completely unrelated to any of the above.

https://www.travelgal.org

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Brownsville, Tennessee

Tina Turner Museum

A restored, one-room African-American schoolhouse in the diva's hometown now preserves the legacy of its most famous student.

Added by Yendon

Queens, New York

TWA Flight Center at JFK Airport

This futuristic airport terminal was abandoned for decades before reopening as a hotel—with a vintage plane of its own parked out back.

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Added by lewblank

Portland, Maine

Battery Steele

Explore the dark underground corridors of this graffiti-covered former military fortification.

Lake Lure, North Carolina

Lake Lure

Practice your Dirty Dancing lifts in the manmade lake where Johnny Castle himself did.

Sabrina Wagganer

Added by Sabrina Wagganer

Sheffield, Massachusetts

Thom Reed UFO Monument Park

The site of the first "historically true" UFO encounter in the U.S.

AaronNetsky

Added by AaronNetsky

Golconda, Nevada

Midas Ghost Town Saloon

A hidden gem of a saloon in the middle of a ghost town.

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Added by lewblank

Detroit, Michigan

Packard Automotive Plant

The concrete shell of an industry giant remains as a playground for graffiti artists, auto scrappers, and paintball warriors.

Added by Broeser

Garnet Hill Rockhound Area

Rich red almandine gemstones are waiting inside the volcanic rock strewn across this eastern Nevada hillside.

Chicago, Illinois

95th Street Bridge

This urban drawbridge gained eternal pop culture fame when the Blues Brothers jumped it while it was raised.

EricGrundhauser

Added by EricGrundhauser

Tonopah, Nevada

Lunar Crater

This massive crater in the middle of nowhere was used to train astronauts for moon landings.

hana

Bisbee, Arizona

Erie Street, Historic Lowell

A living snapshot of a different time in America is preserved and maintained by a community of volunteers.

Added by cassidyac

Green River, Wyoming

Greater Green River Intergalactic Spaceport

This UFO landing strip was created by a charitable Wyoming city that was worried about residents of Jupiter.

Josh

Galveston, Texas

S. S. Selma

A decaying concrete oil tanker served as a disposal location for bootleg hootch.

doddmelcher

Added by doddmelcher

Contrabando

An abandoned movie set in the desert of West Texas.

Clinton

Added by Clinton

Complex City

Michael Heizer's masterwork in the Nevada Basin.

Added by Moe Cheezmo

Asheville, North Carolina

The Grove Park Inn

The U.S. Supreme Court's secret Cold War relocation facility in the mountains of North Carolina.

Elliot Carter

Added by Elliot Carter

Esmeralda County, Nevada

Coaldale, Nevada

This tiny cluster of abandoned buildings looks like the future of the ghost town - today!

amboy

Inverness, California

Point Reyes Boat

This abandoned boat was left in place thanks to its rotting beauty.

cattbertt

Added by cattbertt

Glenn Dale, Maryland

Glenn Dale Hospital

An FDR-era tuberculosis sanatorium has stood abandoned in the suburbs of the U.S. capital for over 30 years.

WhiskeyBristles

Added by WhiskeyBristles

Jerome, Arizona

Gold King Mine Ghost Town

Once the product of an inexplicable gold strike, this ghost town is now home to one man and his love of classic machines.

Welby

Monticello, Utah

Home of Truth

This ghost town was once a cult-like religious utopian settlement.

Added by mollyfaircloth

Oak Hill, West Virginia

Glen Jean School

An abandoned 1920s school with a mysterious history.

Gin Minsky

Added by Gin Minsky

Wingdale, New York

Harlem Valley Psychiatric Center

An abandoned asylum once on the cutting edge of lobotomies may be reborn as a Christian college.

Added by cgrant7692

Bird Island, North Carolina

Kindred Spirit Mailbox

A mailbox that saved a nature reserve.

atimian

Added by atimian