For a decade, Bryan Sansivero has sought out forgotten and dilapidated homes across the United States — chasing the mystery of not knowing what he might find within.

The Vaulted ceiling and arched windows of a gothic revival mansion in Sleepy Hollow, New York. - © Bryan Sansivero, excerpted from America the Abandoned The houses ...

Bodie is the quintessential ghost town, frozen in time high in the Sierra Nevada mountains. Once a booming gold mining town in the late 1800s, Bodie’s population dwindled as the gold veins dried up.

Deep in the Marshall Islands sits the Cactus Dome, a massive concrete cap built over a crater filled with tons of nuclear debris left behind by Cold War testing. Time, storms, and rising sea levels ...