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The Lehigh & New England Railroad (L&NE) was a defunct railroad that operated in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York. It was the second notable railroad in the United States to be completely abandoned.

The Boonton Iron Works is an abandoned pig iron furnace complex that contained rolling and slitting mills for producing nail rods and bar iron along the Rockaway River in Boonton, New Jersey.

The River Road Bridge is a steel pin-connected Parker through truss that carried River Road over the Schuylkill River near Auburn in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania.

The Campbell Tunnel is an abandoned railroad tunnel in southeast Ohio that was part of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad’s Hocking Valley Division.

The Eagle Tunnel is an abandoned railroad tunnel in southeast Ohio that was part of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad’s Hocking Valley Division.

The Kingsville Tunnel No. 5 is an abandoned railroad tunnel along the Coal & Coke Railway (C&C), a former railroad between Charleston and Elkins, West Virginia.

The Goodwin Tunnel No. 4 is an abandoned railroad tunnel along the Coal & Coke Railway (C&C), a former railroad between Charleston and Elkins, West Virginia.

The Kingsville Tunnel No. 1 is an abandoned railroad tunnel along the Coal & Coke Railway (C&C), a former railroad between Charleston and Elkins, West Virginia.

The Jefferson Furnace is an abandoned pig iron furnace located in the Hanging Rock Iron Region near Oak Hill, Ohio.

The Pioneer Furnace is an abandoned pig iron furnace located in the Hanging Rock Iron Region of northern Lawrence County, Ohio.

The Portland Marine Hospital, an edifice nestled within Louisville’s Portland neighborhood, stands as the nation’s last remaining exemplar of its kind. This institution once addressed the health concerns of mariners navigating the Western inland waterways, serving as a prototype for similar establishments nationwide.

The Belle Isle Zoo is an abandoned zoo in Detroit, Michigan, once a popular attraction showcasing a variety of animals before its closure in 2002 due to budgetary constraints and declining attendance.

St. George’s Church is a closed Roman Catholic church at the corner of the Dixie Highway and Standard Avenue in Louisville, Kentucky. It closed in 1995, just shy of the 100th anniversary of its founding.