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Status · Demolished

Demolished places

37 dossiers across 23 jurisdictions carry this filing — heaviest in Pennsylvania (4), Florida (4) and New York (4). Nothing left to visit — the file is all that stands.

37 dossiers23 jurisdictions8% open to visitors
By jurisdiction:Pennsylvania4Florida4New York4
Disaster Site
Medium

Beverly Hills Supper Club site

Southgate, Kentucky

Site of the 1977 fire that killed 165—the nation’s deadliest nightclub disaster.

3 claims · 1 legend→
Former Hospital
Medium

DeJarnette Sanitarium

Staunton, Virginia

Staunton landmark with a published haunting reputation.

2 claims · 1 legend→
Former Hotel
Medium

Kona Lagoon Hotel

Keauhou, Hawaii

Former Kahaluʻu-area hotel linked to guardian-spirit stories.

2 claims→
Former Hospital
Medium

Danvers State Hospital

Danvers, Massachusetts

Kirkbride asylum whose ruins starred in Session 9 before demolition.

2 claims→
Former Hospital
Medium

Norwich State Hospital

Preston, Connecticut

Riverside asylum campus that became an urban-exploration legend before demolition.

2 claims→
Former Rock Formation
Medium

La Piedra del Perro

San Juan, Puerto Rico

Former dog-shaped coastal formation near Fortín San Jerónimo.

1 claim · 1 legend→
Ghost Town
Medium

Singapore

Saugatuck, Michigan

Ghost town associated with documented cultural history.

1 claim · 1 legend→
Demolished Hotel
Medium

Hanna Hotel site

Lock Haven vicinity, Pennsylvania

Demolished hotel research record.

1 claim · 1 legend→
Demolished House
Medium

Bride’s House

Oxford, Mississippi

Demolished house in Oxford; research record.

1 claim · 1 legend→
Former Cemetery
Medium

College Burial Ground site

Washington, Washington, D.C.

Former Georgetown cemetery associated with a 1939 light-story reference.

1 claim · 1 legend→
Railway Legend Area
Medium

Maco Light site

Maco, North Carolina

Railroad crossing where Joe Baldwin’s lantern swung for a century.

1 claim · 1 legend→
Demolished Bridge
Low

Ghost Bridge — Cypress Creek

Florence, Alabama

Demolished bridge in Alabama; research record.

1 claim · 1 legend→
Former Hospital
Medium

Philadelphia State Hospital at Byberry

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Notorious asylum complex demolished after decades of abuse documentation.

1 claim→
Former Hospital
Medium

Metropolitan State Hospital

Waltham, Massachusetts

State hospital with a burial ground and a notorious 1978 patient murder.

1 claim→
Former Hospital
Medium

Hudson River State Hospital

Poughkeepsie, New York

1871 Kirkbride asylum partially destroyed by fire and redevelopment.

1 claim→
Former Institution
Medium

Willowbrook State School

Staten Island, New York

Site of Geraldo Rivera’s 1972 exposé and the "Cropsey" urban legend.

1 claim→
Prison
Medium

Cárcel Oso Blanco

San Juan, Puerto Rico

Former Río Piedras penitentiary complex.

1 claim→
Former Hotel
Medium

Uncle Billy’s Hilo Bay Hotel

Hilo, Hawaii

Former Banyan Drive hotel referenced in guest ghost accounts.

1 claim→
Demolished House Site
Medium

Henry Treat Rogers Mansion Site

Denver, Colorado

Former house associated with The Changeling and a disputed ghost narrative.

1 claim→
Former Hospital
Medium

Kings Park Psychiatric Center

Kings Park, New York

111-year state hospital campus slowly being demolished.

1 claim→
Former Institution
Medium

Letchworth Village

Thiells, New York

"Village for the feeble-minded" with a polio-vaccine trial history and ruin lore.

1 claim→
Historic Site
Medium

Gore Orphanage site

Vermilion, Ohio

Orphanage-fire legend that outlived the institution itself.

1 claim→
Hotel Site
Medium

Ambassador Hotel site

Los Angeles, California

The Cocoanut Grove and the pantry where RFK was shot—demolished 2006.

1 claim→
Ghost Town
Medium

Sumay

Santa Rita, Guam

Destroyed CHamoru town within Naval Base Guam.

1 fact→
Ghost Town
Low

Omadi

South Sioux City, Nebraska

Ghost town associated with documented cultural history.

1 fact→
Submerged Town
Low

Pactola

Pactola, South Dakota

Submerged town documented in historical or public cultural sources.

1 fact→
Ghost Town
Low

Burris City

Iowa

Platted in 1855 near the Iowa–Mississippi river junction, the town failed amid floodplain problems and a failed railway; its last building was removed in 1868.

1 fact→
Submerged Town
Medium

Flagstaff village site

Flagstaff, Maine

Former Dead River Valley settlement displaced by a hydroelectric reservoir.

1 fact→
Submerged Town
Medium

Dead River village site

Dead River, Maine

Former Dead River Valley settlement displaced by a hydroelectric reservoir.

1 fact→
Ghost Town
Low

Alvira Village Site

Gregg Township, Pennsylvania

Village removed for a World War II explosives complex.

1 fact→
Ghost Town
Medium

Livermore Former Borough

Derry Township, Pennsylvania

Former borough removed during development of the Conemaugh flood-control reservoir.

1 fact→
Former Hospital
Medium

McKendree Miner's Hospital site

McKendree, West Virginia

Remains of a miners' hospital and later segregated nursing home.

1 fact→
Former Mine Site
Medium

Kaymoor Two mine site

Fayetteville, West Virginia

Former pick-mine operation distinct from Kaymoor One.

1 fact→
House Ruins
Medium

Drew Mansion site

Ellaville, Florida

Site of Governor George F. Drew's fire-destroyed home.

1 fact→
Former Amusement Park
Medium

Six Gun Territory

Ocala, Florida

Demolished western-themed attraction now associated with a developed residential area.

1 fact→
Former Amusement Park
Medium

Paradise Park (Silver River)

Ocala, Florida

Former Black recreation destination documenting segregation and a lost community landmark.

1 fact→
Demolished Attraction
Medium

Xanadu House (Kissimmee)

Kissimmee, Florida

Demolished experimental house once promoting domestic automation.

1 fact→

The other status shelves

Operating 1,959Status unknown 652Historic site 628Natural site 129Abandoned 84Closed 18Museum 8