Archives: Locations

St. Nicholas Central Breaker is a former historic coal breaker built by the Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Company near Mahanoy City, Pennsylvania.

The Irem Temple is an abandoned Shrine mosque in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Completed in 1908 and vacated in 2005, the building is one of the best examples of Moorish Revival architecture. 

The Essex County Jail is an abandoned jail in Newark, New Jersey. The long-neglected facility was constructed in 1837 and closed in 1971.

Grimms Bridge Tunnel is an abandoned tunnel along the Youngstown & Southern Railroad Smith’s Ferry Branch in eastern Ohio.

Tunnel No. 6 is located west of Washington, Pennsylvania, along the abandoned Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Wheeling–Pittsburgh Subdivision.

The Dayton Arcade is a historic collection of five inner-connecting buildings in downtown Dayton, Ohio with a glass-domed rotunda as its centerpiece. It is in the process of being restored and reopened.

Buckeye Steel Castings, later known as Columbus Castings, is a now-demolished foundry in Columbus, Ohio. It was once the largest single-site steel foundry in North America. Columbus Castings manufactured steel castings for freight and passenger rail cars, locomotives, construction and mining equipment, and industrial magnets.

Old Hickory is circa 1880 Italianate residence in Coudersport, Pennsylvania. The house was later renovated into The Old Hickory, an inn and tavern. It is being lovingly restored after years of abandonment.

The abandoned Monongahela Hotel is located in downtown Brownsville, Pennsylvania. In later years, it became Towne House, an apartment complex.

Union Station is an abandoned train station and office building that was used by the Monongahela Railway in downtown Brownsville, Pennsylvania.

Hazelwood Sanatorium is a former tuberculosis hospital in Louisville, Kentucky. Today, portions of the facility operate as a residential facility for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Old Town Mall is a nearly abandoned shopping center in the Old Town neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland.