Helin Bereket spent hours driving her rental car down the dusty roads just east of Twentynine Palms earlier this year, photographing the abandoned homesteads that littered the desert landscape. The ...

The author hiked to an abandoned homestead outside of Estes Park, Colorado. Monica Humphries/Insider I hiked Homestead Meadows, a trail in Colorado that leads to abandoned buildings built in the 1800s ...

Before the modern day hiking trails, Umstead Park had a different kind of adventure: The land was home of an entire community--with mills, schools, churches and farms--and those ruins are still hidden ...

Have you ever driven down a dirt road at sunset and seen one of the many abandoned homesteads that dot the Midwestern landscape and thought what a beautiful picture it was? That’s exactly the thought ...