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The normally bustling Kalamazoo looks almost apocalyptic.

Once home to about 1,500 residents in the height of the city's history in the 1870s, Pere Cheney was a promising lumber town that attracted many settlers looking for work. So what happened? Why did this once thriving village turn into a ghost town? Is the town cursed?

There's a narrow old bridge south of Battle Creek with little to no chance it will ever see traffic again because no one can agree who actually own the bridge.

Lost in the Northern Michigan woods are a series of "stairs to nowhere" leading to what was once a neighborhood in the city of Negaunee.

Northern Michigan is particularly well known for its ghost towns, remnants of the mining industry around Houghton and the Keweenaw Peninsula. But the story of Pauline, Michigan, is the story of a town no one remembers.

A collage by Freelance Photographer Martin Hogan was posted on a Facebook group with the simple caption "Barry County, Martin Corners, Methodist Church".

A group of urban explorers visited White Pines Trailer Park in Mattawan recently where things have gone feral and are in even worse condition than you imagine.

The old Three Rivers hospital might be an eyesore, a symbol of nearly-lost history or a thrillseekers dream, depending on whom you ask. Take a walk through the abandoned building with a group known as Ruin Road.

Imagine how this Victorian home in Saginaw must have looked in its prime. Today this home stands abandoned, overlooked and needing lots of TLC.

Days of hanging out are going by the wayside as online shopping takes over by way of convenience. What happens with these spaces once the crowds have left?