Landmark Chicago building narrowly avoided destruction.

The lowest point in the state of Illinois, at the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers.

This abandoned asylum was once a state of the art facility before devolving into one of the most deadly mental institutions in American history.

A long abandoned hospital building on the outskirts of NYC.

The abandoned husk of a mental institution that failed to save a Jazz Age icon still sits nearly unchanged.

The abandoned hospital whose elaborate ghost stories cover up the dirty truth - an uneventful sanitation issue and other mundane reasons for its demise.