abandoned: The All-American Ruins Podcast guides listeners through immersive audio fantasies, recreating host Blake Pfeil's experiences exploring abandoned spaces across the United States and around the world. Along the way, the show asks critical questions about American history and culture, community, economics, the environment, and mental health while encouraging folks to activate their imaginations as a tool for healing. Winner: Ambie Award (2025 - Best DIY Podcast), Signal Awards (2024 & 2025 - Best Experimental Podcast), CineHealth Media Festival (Best Podcast), Sydney Web Fest Michael Ajakwe Award for Innovation (2025) Nominee: UK Press Gazette Future of Media Awards (2024, 2025 - Regional Podcast of the Year), Ambie Awards (2024 - Best Indie Podcast) To learn more, visit www.allamericanruins.com. more

This urban exploring podcast interviews the explorers behind some of your favorite abandoned photography. Join us as we dive into their urban exploration stories, challenges, tips, and great escapes, with the common goal of leaving no trace. Merch available at http://notracers.com/shop more

This podcast examines the history of now-defunct or abandoned psychiatric hospitals. Listen every week to learn about the history of mental health care and the true stories of the people who lived and worked behind the walls. more

Jason Horton & Rebecca Leib discuss and explore some of the most mysterious and interesting events in history. Take a trip to haunted hotels, abandoned malls, deserted amusement parks, paranormal experiences, infamous true crimes, and weird historical and cultural events. This is Ghost Town. more

Find out why it's all falling apart on the new Abandoned America podcast! Join host Matthew Christopher, author and photographer of the Abandoned America book series and website, and explore what incredible stories ruins have to tell, what mysteries they hold, and why they were left behind. more

Here we rediscover the vanished and forgotten places in one of America's oldest states, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. It could be a ghost town, it could be a former neighborhood reclaimed for industrial use. Sometimes we hike into the wilderness, sometimes the lost world is beneath a busy street. Maybe you live on top of a forgotten settlement? Walk along with us on the lost road. More at LOSTMASSACHUSETTS.COM more

Join Shannon and Gina as they travel the 50 states and bring you stories of ghost towns, haunted locations, true crime, abandoned places and more. The majority of the stories covered on this podcast will be from locations they have personally visited. Check out 50 States of Madness on YouTube to see the pictures and videos taken during their travels. Thank you for listening.  more

The world is littered with abandoned ruins. Places where you can't help but wonder - where did everyone go? Join historian Sascha Auerbach, and comedian Tom Ward, as they reveal the incredible stories behind eerie ghost towns, ruined mansions, forgotten factories, crumbling castles, wartime relics, haunted prisons, and much more.  With insightful interviews from local experts, laugh-out-loud comedy and fascinating nuggets of weird history Where Did Everyone Go? is an entertaining journey to the world's most remarkable abandoned places. From the producers of the Forbidden History podcast. more

Carolina Ghost Towns is an exploration of the lost towns and communities in South Carolina, North Carolina, and occasionally Georgia more

Open 24/7 is a podcast about urbex. Every show is a conversation with the best explorers out there telling the story behind one of their wildest photos. Hosted by exploring photographers Max (@Max.Bon) and Mike (@Hysterical.Panic). It's epic people doing epic shit. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. more

Echoes of Elsewhere explores the forgotten, the haunted, and the hidden. Through immersive storytelling and in-depth interviews with fellow explorers and seekers of the strange. Each episode uncovers the echoes left behind in abandoned places. This season introduces Beyond the Abandoned—a segment where the forgotten meets the paranormal + beyond. Follow on social media @urbexechoes and on the Echoes of Elsewhere FB page for more! more

Each week, I'll pick an abandoned place to talk about and the ghosts that call them home. There may be wine involved. more

There are places we abandoned long before we abandoned the buildings.Hospitals. Asylums. Orphanages. Sanatoriums. Institutions built to care for people... and sometimes to hide them.CONDEMNED investigates the history inside the world's forgotten institutions, following the records, the people who lived there, and the legends left behind.Because abandoned buildings collect ghost stories.But sometimes the truth is worse. more

Faded Places is a film photography podcast exploring the forgotten corners of small-town Iowa. Join hosts Chase and Eric as they hit the backroads with a camera in hand, capturing abandoned places, chance encounters, and the quiet stories hidden between the frames.Music by Roahttps://youtube.com/c/RoaMusic more

Midwest Ghost Town is about exploring the history of abandoned towns and places in the Midwest and around the world- most importantly - we are here to tell the story of these places and the people who lived there. more

🎙️ Tracks, Trails & Forgotten TalesHidden history, wild adventures, and forgotten places. Tracks, Trails & Forgotten Tales follows Dan and Carm as they uncover the stories buried in backroads, ghost towns, and epic landscapes across BC and beyond. From strange encounters to lost legends, each episode blends adventure, storytelling, and special guests who share their own unforgettable tales from the trail. more

Discover the hidden stories behind abandoned places—ghost towns, deserted asylums, and crumbling landmarks lost to time. more

Midnight Routes explores the hidden side of travel—abandoned places, eerie destinations, and untold stories from around the world.If you're tired of basic travel content, you're in the right place.New stories weekly. more

Forgotten Urban Histories is a sharp, atmospheric, and beautifully immersive journey through the hidden layers, forgotten lore, and quiet anomalies of the places we think we know. The premise is simple: while modern cities and historical landscapes constantly modernise and push forward, they rarely truly erase where they have been. Instead of demolishing their past, they bury it, lock it away, or leave it to pass into local myth—creating a parallel world where history, legend, and the present day exist directly alongside one another. This podcast is a detail-driven exploration of those incredible, overlooked spaces and stories. We bypass the polished tourist landmarks to uncover the spectacular omissions and eerie mysteries that most people walk straight past every day: abandoned infrastructure untouched for decades, whispered local legends that blur the line between fact and folklore, forgotten historical chapters, and anomalous sites waiting silently just out of view. Combining rigorous historical research with a lightly witty, observational eye, Forgotten Urban Histories treats the world's most fascinating locales as living, breathing historical marvels. We pull back the curtain on the everyday landscape to find the awe, mystery, and amazement buried just out of sight. This isn't a lecture on history; it's a celebration of the extraordinary, forgotten narratives and spaces we are lucky enough to still be able to rediscover and explore. About the Host Mark Kerrigan holds a Bachelor of Education and a Master's degree in Theological Studies. With over twenty years of experience as an educator, Mark excels at breaking down complex, rigorous academic research into engaging, accessible, and fascinating narratives. He is a multi-disciplinary creator under the Narranimate Studios banner, hosting both The B-Side Bible and the Forgotten Urban Histories podcast. Mark is also a versatile author, having written two speculative fiction novels as well as two children's novels. Across all his projects, he combines his background in education, narrative world-building, and historical criticism to strip the varnish off the past—delivering it exactly as it was: loud, accurate, and completely off the record. more