Abandoned places

It's not unusual to come across an abandoned house, but it's not common to see an entire neighborhood emptied. That's what happened to residents of one Missouri town who had to leave their homes because of a nearby airport.

Back in the 1980's, many families traveled across the Midwest to enjoy this water park. But, it was due to a possibly unrelated tragedy that the park would shut down and now it's been empty and abandoned for over a decade. Still, there are skeletons of what the water park used to be still remaining.

I'll blame this on my typically suspicious nature. There's an Illinois neighborhood which has an abnormally high number of abandoned homes. There are urban legends claiming the homes were abandoned due to an influx of cell phone towers and illness, but is it true? Let's explore and see if we can learn the truth.

This was the one place in Missouri that most people never wanted to end up in. What used to be a Missouri Correctional Facility is now abandoned and all but forgotten, yet it's still full of murals and an awkward amount of old teeth.

For 75 years, this Missouri school was known for education of young people. As it now sits abandoned for 40 years, it will sadly be known for something else. It was the scene of 4 senseless murders - with a hammer.

Most abandoned locations tend to see decay rather quickly once they're emptied out. That's not the case for a forgotten 50's-themed diner in Illinois that's still in decent shape after more than a decade of being forgotten.

It's a part of Missouri that's practically been forgotten. Remnants of ghost towns that used to thrive, but now sit empty. An adventurer just took a lonely walk through what is left of these towns that have been lost in a distant past.

Nazareth Speedway was once a thriving and busy NASCAR track that held 45,000 NASCAR fans. Now, 16 years after the track closed it sits with only the history of what it once was.

Nearly a dozen families called this Illinois neighborhood home at one time. Now, it's been completely wiped away. Homes were abandoned and then demolished. It's a quite neighborhood in the Land of Lincoln that simply disappeared all because of water.

You never know what you might find in the woods. That was especially true of a hiker in Illinois who found an abandoned airplane.