urban decay

Take a step back in time and explore the old former elementary school on North Washington Street in Herkimer, just outside of Utica.

If you browse Google Maps you'll notice a airport listed in Marcy called Riverside Airport. This airport hasn't seen any sort of planes landing at it since the late 90's. Since then, it has grown abandoned and time has truly forgotten this magical spot.

The CharlesTown USA Mall in Utica has been closed since the early 90s but that doesn't stop explorers from wandering through the old building. Take a walk through with Scott Murray and his friends from Abandoned Works Urban Exploration.

Go inside the abandoned Dundas Castle, formerly known as Beaverkill Lodge, with Dan Laroe of Northeastern Abandoned Exploration.

Catskill Game Farm has been closed for almost 10 years but you can go inside the abandoned zoo with Matthew Christopher. The photographer, who's had an interest in abandoned sites since he was a child, started documenting them a decade ago. He toured Catskill Game Farm earlier this month.

Imagine having an entire mall to yourself. Now imagine that mall covered in snow. Johnny Joo, a 24-year-old photojournalist from Ohio captured an abandoned mall in Ohio that looked more like a winter wonderland.

A hiker came across the abandoned town of the "Wonderland Club" vacation community just outside of the logging town of Elkmont in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and filmed his exploration.

When we talk about ghosts, we are often discussing the forgotten people. Their names and identities have been erased, replaced with the translucent image of someone who was once alive.