I grew up exploring stuff like this on dirt bikes in eastern and central Pennsylvania with my friends.<p>If you like this you'll definitely love Centralia<p><a href="https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/centralia-pennsylvania-2014" rel="nofollow">https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/centralia-pennsylvania...</a><p>Fires under the town have been burning for decades.
This is about 10-15 miles from where I grew up. There are several of these ghost towns that dot the area where mining, iron furnaces, or coke ovens once existed. There is one town not too far from this one that is now under 10-20 feet of water as it was flooded when the Conemagh dam was built.