From an American World War II fighter plane buried in the shallows of a British beach to a medieval castle protecting a border that no longer exists and from a Soviet space shuttle gathering dust in a dilapidated hangar to a deserted prison, Abandoned features wrecks and strongholds, factories and railway stations, theaters, haunted mansions, and ghost towns that time has left behind. With 320 photographs, this book is a pictorial examination of places that time forgot, a window into a forgotten past.