Fukushima hospitals were flooded with victims after the devastating earthquake and tsunami of 2011. Now, 12 years later they sit abandoned, providing a frozen snapshot of what it must have been like.

Hidden across quiet backroads and forgotten landscapes, these abandoned American places reveal stories time refused to erase.

For some people, the allure—even the eeriness—of abandoned places draws them to dilapidated destinations year-round. For others, visiting vacant Victorians and otherwise abandoned mansions, or ...

The last time Lee Hamm was working in New Orleans’s Charity Hospital, critically ill patients were being hauled up and down dark, sweltering stairways as nurses hand-pumped oxygen to keep them alive.

The houses are worn by weather and time, photographed in isolation like forgotten monuments. They have a haunted feel: Windows are boarded on Victorian-era turrets; paint flakes off the towering ...

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 ...