Abandoned in Massachusetts

Historic seaside park featuring explorable, abandoned military structures.

In the middle of a New England forest sit the crumbling ruins of World War II-era ammunition storage bunkers.

The only surviving building of historic West Boylston, which was flooded to create the Wachusett Reservoir.

Once the largest public hospital for the mentally ill was also surrounded by controversy.

This abandoned neighborhood is now a park filled with beautiful trees, wildflowers, and hints of its past.

This dam in the woods, built by Henry Ford with only manpower and oxen, holds no water and serves no purpose.

Site of a famous 19th-century transcendentalist utopian community, now abandoned.

This railroad tunnel was once the longest in Massachusetts.

No one really knows how these old hobby horses got here, but the herd keeps growing.

The bears may be gone, but their old cages can still be found.

The ruins of a Massachusetts prison farm can still be found crumbling the woods of a state park.

Unlike other abandoned asylums this empty institution welcomes visitors, just don't go in the buildings.

Run by a eugenics advocate, this aging institution conducted secret radiation experiments sponsored by Quaker Oats.

The inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft's horror stories and Batman's Arkham Asylum is now a condominium complex.

A spooky and decrepit mental health facility is slowly being replaced with newer digs.

The former locus of Boston's high culture has been shuttered and buried for over 70 years.