Abandoned places

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.

What's scarier than investigating an abandoned place? Answer: realizing that you're not alone. That's exactly what happened to some urban explorers who recently checked out what remains of an abandoned elementary school in Illinois.

This northern Illinois home was built during the Civil War, but now sadly sits vacant and has been that way for decades. Explorers discovered that it also was harboring a secret hidden bunker underneath.

You can almost feel the sadness of this place. There's a new video that shows a walkthrough of what used to be a Missouri poor farm and cemetery and it's about as solemn experience as you can imagine.