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New Jersey

Abandoned Bus

Believe it or not this old relic has a story. While going to the Bloomingdale DPW, to hopefully find a computer for parts someone threw out, I noticed this old bus sitting there. The bus had all it's windows smashed out...

Status Region Type

  • Demolished
  • New Jersey
  • Transportation
  • 7 Photos

Bloomingdale Dam

Nothing much here but a small cement ruin, I really don't know what it used to be but from the looks of it, chances are that it was some type of dam to control the river back in the day so that it did not flood, but who knows...

Status Region Type

  • Abandoned
  • New Jersey
  • Industrial
  • 16 Photos

Building 45/47




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Status Region Type

  • Restored
  • New Jersey
  • Office Building
  • 56 Photos

Camp Kameshia




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Status Region Type

  • Abandoned
  • New Jersey
  • Resort
  • 58 Photos

Card Board Tube Garage




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Status Region Type

  • Abandoned
  • New Jersey
  • Mill
  • 41 Photos

Casey Jones




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Status Region Type

  • Restored
  • New Jersey
  • Rail Road
  • 72 Photos

Chain Saw House

Maybe it's the feeling of loneliness and seclusion, the aura of death, the smell and beauty of decay that attracts me to these places. Or maybe it is something entirely different, perhaps these places attract me, because they allow me to express myself...

Status Region Type

  • Demolished
  • New Jersey
  • Residential
  • 50 Photos

Contrail Barn

An old Ford pickup truck lay rusting away in a maze of thorn bushes and dead overgrowth. Farming equipment now killed by time, were scattered about the overgrown field, almost looking as if it were keeping watch of the decaying barn...

Status Region Type

  • Abandoned
  • New Jersey
  • Agricultural
  • 35 Photos

Corrosion Correctional Center

The silence was shattered by a loud smash! Startled, I froze, and listened carefully, braced to run at any moment. The sound seemed to echo through the empty jail cells and bounced off the cement walls...

Status Region Type

  • Abandoned
  • New Jersey
  • Prison
  • 52 Photos

Country Living Inn

Like an unorganized orchestra the sound was sporadic, sharp, and varied in pitch. At first an untrained ear might mistake it as a tripped alarm...

Status Region Type

  • Abandoned
  • New Jersey
  • Resort
  • 34 Photos

Defunct Power Plant

Basically I ran into this place on accident, while a friend of mine and I were searching for a deli to get something to eat. Well any way, the building pictured below, was very small but the entire perimeter of the structure was ...

Status Region Type

  • Abandoned
  • New Jersey
  • Industrial
  • 6 Photos

Dentists House

A fear that almost every one of us posses, that of the dentist. I for one hate the dentist, I despise that smell of the waiting room and the horrifying sound of metal tools scratching up against your teeth...

Status Region Type

  • Abandoned
  • New Jersey
  • Residential
  • 84 Photos

Empty Walls Mansion

The brisk autumn wind echoed threw the collapsing walls, the floor boards creaked and swayed with every step and darkness consumed the narrow stairwell, for a moment I almost considered turning back...

Status Region Type

  • Restored
  • New Jersey
  • Historical
  • 38 Photos

Essex County Hospital Center

It grew darker and darker, as we rounded a corner the last shimmer of natural light trickled away and we completely relied on our flashlights for illumination. The dirt ground was slippery, wet and cold...

Status Region Type

  • Abandoned
  • New Jersey
  • Hospital
  • 68 Photos

Essex Mountain Sanatorium

In this dust that was once a city lurked the decrepit old hospital buildings of the Essex Mountain Sanatorium, also commonly referred to as Over Brook and or Hilltop. The EMS served as a hospital for the insane...

Status Region Type

  • Demolished
  • New Jersey
  • Hospital
  • 56 Photos

Fairy Tale Forest

Perhaps it's the vibrant colors, the giant mushroom in the parking lot or maybe just the overall weird aura of this place that continues to grab my attention every time I pass it. Most native New Jerseyans will probably...

Status Region Type

  • Abandoned
  • New Jersey
  • Theme Park
  • 71 Photos

Federal Hill

From what I know about the hill, General George Washington stopped at the hill while travailing through the Northern New Jersey Area (Specifically Bloomingdale NJ). He stopped at the hill to set up a fire post/lookout...

Status Region Type

  • Abandoned
  • New Jersey
  • Historical
  • 24 Photos

Forgotten Cemetery

In the former Butler Cemetery some "famous" townsfolk lay to rest, including Mr. De'lazier, and Mr. Vreeland. There are also some stranger aspects to the Butler Cemetery including headstones that have a date of birth but not date of death...

Status Region Type

  • Abandoned
  • New Jersey
  • Cemetery
  • 61 Photos

Hill Top Care Center

Deep within the woods of the rich suburbia of Montville New Jersey lay a dormant monster, that has attracted adventure goers and Urban Explorers for years. She stands proudly (altho now a little charred) upon her hill protected only by the cover of the trees...

Status Region Type

  • Abandoned
  • New Jersey
  • Hospital
  • 65 Photos

House 69




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Status Region Type

  • Abandoned
  • New Jersey
  • Residential
  • 50 Photos

Hunting Lodge

Being that the door was wide open, I figured my presence was welcome and I made my way inside the decrepit structure. Falling water droplets echoed through out the empty rooms and the floor boards were nearly...

Status Region Type

  • Abandoned
  • New Jersey
  • Resort
  • 24 Photos

Hydraulic Motor Factory

The soaking wet and moldy ceiling tiles, that had fallen to the ground, where like quicksand. They seemed to suck my shoes down deeper and deeper with each step. The smell of hydraulic motor oil was...

Status Region Type

  • Abandoned
  • New Jersey
  • Industrial
  • 55 Photos

Isolation Hospital

I watched from the top floor the active town below. A group of people were playing golf in a field adjacent to the hospital, another couple tossing a frisbee, as their dog ran just behind...

Status Region Type

  • Abandoned
  • New Jersey
  • Hospital
  • 47 Photos

Ivy House

I walked through the front door, my face dripping with beads of sweat, It was a blazing hot Summer day and I did not know what to expect. The whole house was obscured with vegetation and vines crawling from...

Status Region Type

  • Abandoned
  • New Jersey
  • Residential
  • 85 Photos

Kampfe's Lake

From the date I found in one of the stone walls surrounding this once grand estate I estimate it being around 110 yeas old. There is really not to much here any more but an old foundation of the once grand mansion.

Status Region Type

  • Abandoned
  • New Jersey
  • Historical
  • 50 Photos

Karefott Lake

Karefott Lake a once bustling summer camp filled with playing children (and probably mean camp directors). Now all thats left are a few cabins and a stagnant old lake. This area was once an old summer and swimming camp...

Status Region Type

  • Demolished
  • New Jersey
  • Resort
  • 40 Photos

La Casa Roja

My heart raced in response to the loud crash, I knew I was definitally not alone. I could hear something scurrying around in the adjacent room, and it definitally sounded like...

Status Region Type

  • Demolished
  • New Jersey
  • Residential
  • 16 Photos

Led Zeppelin Train Yard




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Status Region Type

  • Abandoned
  • New Jersey
  • Rail Road
  • 52 Photos

Lime Kilns

The wet leaves muted my footsteps as I approached the industrial skeleton, the adjacent river slowly eroding away it's cement bones...

Status Region Type

  • Abandoned
  • New Jersey
  • Mill
  • 24 Photos

Long Pond Iron Works

Founded in 1766 by the German ironmaster Peter Hasenclever, the Long Pond Ironworks stood as a steady industry in Northern New Jersey for over one-hundred years. Everything in this small village was built because of the success of the Iron Industry...

Status Region Type

  • Abandoned
  • New Jersey
  • Historical
  • 17 Photos

Midgets House

I honestly could not tell you what this structure is other than some type of frame. My guess is that it was some type of club house way back when. Or I even might go as far as to speculate it may be a midgets house...

Status Region Type

  • Abandoned
  • New Jersey
  • Residential
  • 25 Photos

Mohawk Industries

The sheet-metal framed building muted the gunshot rounds echoing from the nearby private shooting range. Rust stained the siding various shades of red and brown, as sunlight made way through the corroded holes in the roof...

Status Region Type

  • Demolished
  • New Jersey
  • Industrial
  • 44 Photos

Old Rusty

Sometimes when exploring the wonderful woods here in New Jersey, I randomly stumble across old abandoned vehicles, and this was just one of those times. I was doing some general Urban Exploration at a near by condominium development site...

Status Region Type

  • Demolished
  • New Jersey
  • Transportation
  • 12 Photos

Paper Mill

This place is a fairly large abandoned paper processing complex. From what I know, this building in the early beginning days used to make toilet paper for the Queen of England. At first a thought this was...

Status Region Type

  • Abandoned
  • New Jersey
  • Mill
  • 19 Photos

Paulinskill Viaduct

In the back woods of Northern New Jersey their lurks a huge expanse of bridge known as the Hainesburg Viaduct, but more commonly refereed to as the Paulinskill Viaduct. Such a structure so big you think would be noticeable at far distances...

Status Region Type

  • Abandoned
  • New Jersey
  • Rail Road
  • 42 Photos

Pump House

Every once in awhile, while exploring in the woods, you stumble upon old relics that you never knew even existed. "The Pump House" is a pure example of just that. The structure itself is not much of an abandonment...

Status Region Type

  • Abandoned
  • New Jersey
  • Industrial
  • 25 Photos

Red Fox Inn

I squeezed myself through the broken window pane and into what seemed like another world. The temperature was a good 15 degrees cooler than that of the outside world, a strong smell of mildew filled the air...

Status Region Type

  • Abandoned
  • New Jersey
  • Restaurant
  • 30 Photos

River Ruins

Not all ruins are hidden amongst the back roads of New Jersey or deep within the forbidden woods, in-fact there are many interesting ruins to be seen, that are almost in plane sight....

Status Region Type

  • Abandoned
  • New Jersey
  • Industrial
  • 27 Photos

Round Barn

The pictures below are of one of the only if not the only round barn still standing in New Jersey. It has been abandoned for sometime and because of that the structure of the barn is pretty much unfixable...

Status Region Type

  • Demolished
  • New Jersey
  • Agricultural
  • 31 Photos

Security Shack

A lone speck of graffiti was all that marked the now defunct guards shack to the Butler Printing & Laminating Facility. At one point in time I would presume, that a pair of security guards sat in this little hut all day long...

Status Region Type

  • Abandoned
  • New Jersey
  • Industrial
  • 11 Photos

Slater's Mill




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Status Region Type

  • Abandoned
  • New Jersey
  • Mill
  • 64 Photos

Solar Panel House

This was quite an interesting find. While the day was coming to an end, I stumbled upon this abandoned house which looked to be covered in sky lights, but upon closer inspection they were solar panels!...

Status Region Type

  • Abandoned
  • New Jersey
  • Residential
  • 60 Photos

Springfield Laboratories

A quick walk around the perimeter of the building, and it was quite clear there was no way I was getting inside. All the windows had jail cell bars across them, and the garage doors were fenced in and Master Locked shut...

Status Region Type

  • Abandoned
  • New Jersey
  • Industrial
  • 26 Photos

St. Anger's Abbey

For a moment I felt anger, felt the need to destroy. It lay right in front of me, and I could have easily chose to ruin it, but what good would that have done? For what brought me anger was no more...

Status Region Type

  • Abandoned
  • New Jersey
  • Religious
  • 44 Photos

Stivasin Rutherford Estate

Have you ever wondered what walls would say if they could talk. Image the history they could tell us, would they reveal secrets uttered long ago by past inhabitants or tell us how things were like back in the day...

Status Region Type

  • Abandoned
  • New Jersey
  • Residential
  • 18 Photos

Sun Tan Lake

When faced with lots of money people often times make stupid decisions on their part. Such can be said about Valley Springs (Suntan Lake) in Riverdale New Jersey. At one point in history Valley Springs was a popular swimming resort...

Status Region Type

  • Demolsihed
  • New Jersey
  • Resort
  • 30 Photos

Swamp House

Nestled behind the waters of a lively swamp, masked by tall grasses and curvy trees, sits a lonely house. The many sounds of the active marsh outside, in a way seem to taunt the empty and depressed abode...

Status Region Type

  • Abandoned
  • New Jersey
  • Residentail
  • 20 Photos

The Barn




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Status Region Type

  • Demolsihed
  • New Jersey
  • Agricultural
  • 26 Photos

Tocks Island

The depressing grey sky complemented perfectly the dead overgrowth still frozen from the previous winter months. The wind gusted furiously at times...

Status Region Type

  • Abandoned
  • New Jersey
  • Residential
  • 30 Photos

Twin Bridges Farmhouse

Change: an aspect of life we all most cope with. Sometimes things change for the better, other times for the worse. Such change can be said about the Twin Bridges Farm House. At one point in time the house...

Status Region Type

  • Abandoned
  • New Jersey
  • Agricultural
  • 40 Photos

Untermeyer Mansion

Yeah, I have to admit we were lost at first, but after driving around in circles for a bit, and consulting Google Maps for help, we finnaly found what appeared to be the trail which led up to the ruins. But this was no five star trail...

Status Region Type

  • Abandoned
  • New Jersey
  • Residential
  • 57 Photos

Van Ness Grecco Mansion

Fingers numb from the cold, I arrived. I have been here before, but I figure it was time to visit an old friend again. It's an odd feeling to be all alone in a huge empty mansion, my steps echoed as I walked across the empty wooden floors...

Status Region Type

  • Abandoned
  • New Jersey
  • Historical
  • 34 Photos

Vass Farmstead

John Vass, a German immigrant, erected this limestone farmhouse in 1812. Members of the Vass family were extensive landowners and involved in local politics, ice production and mining enterprises, in addition to farming...

Status Region Type

  • Restored
  • New Jersey
  • Agricultural
  • 28 Photos

Water Treatment Facility

A few panicked pigeons created a cloud of dust as they darted up to the safety of the rafters above. Sunlight poured in from the yellow tinted windows...

Status Region Type

  • Abandoned
  • New Jersey
  • Industrial
  • 41 Photos

Wayne Manor

Ah, the Wayne Manor, a building that in its hey-day was one of the most fine and elegant places to hold parties and wedding receptions. The manor filled with its many dance hall's and floors was a sure party location for those richy-rich pants people...

Status Region Type

  • Demolished
  • New Jersey
  • Restaurant
  • 97 Photos

Wheatsworth Mill

The dark and dreary cement staircase spiraled up with no end in sight. Each passing step, the temperature seemed to rise and the darkness faded ever so slightly...

Status Region Type

  • Abandoned
  • New Jersey
  • Mill
  • 22 Photos
New York

Jurassic (industrial) Park

The sound of water droplets crashing against the concrete floor echoed throughout the empty shell of a building. Colorfully painted steam pipes stretched out like vines, growing up from the cement ground...

Status Region Type

  • Demolished
  • New York
  • Industrial
  • 56 Photos

Letchworth Village

The last of the leaves had fallen from the trees, allowing the late afternoon sun to easily filter in through the broken window frames. The peeling paint scattered the light, creating interesting shadow patterns on the floor...

Status Region Type

  • Abandoned
  • New York
  • Hospital
  • 86 Photos

Mural Psychiatric Center

The paint chips crunched underneath my boots as I walked across the bare hallway. It was hideously cold outside, and every once in a while a bone chilling wind would creep in, brushing past my now hypothermic hands...

Status Region Type

  • Abandoned
  • New York
  • Hospital
  • 28 Photos
Pennsylvania

Valley Inn

A Stagnant puddle of water reflected the cloudy blue sky above. Sitting down for a moment to catch my breath, I watched in the reflection, the clouds slowly move past, until a series of wind birthed ripples distorted the illusion...

Status Region Type

  • Abandoned
  • Pennsylvania
  • Resort
  • 41 Photos
Colorado

Behind Bars

A shimmer of light caught my eye, reflecting off a piece of broken glass from a window pane in front of me. The oddly shaped building, constructed into the side of a cliff looked to be abandoned...

Status Region Type

  • Abandoned
  • Colorado
  • Prision
  • 23 Photos