Hidden deep in the Georgia woods, this plantation house dates back to the 1840s and remains standing nearly 190 years later.

The houses are worn by weather and time, photographed in isolation like forgotten monuments. They have a haunted feel: Windows are boarded on Victorian-era turrets; paint flakes off the towering ...

The Vaulted ceiling and arched windows of a gothic revival mansion in Sleepy Hollow, New York. - © Bryan Sansivero, excerpted from America the Abandoned The houses ...