49 Abandoned Landmarks That Are More Beautiful Than Ever

45. The Halls of Justice – Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

Tucked away in downtown Cincinnati is a crumbling monument to bureaucracy gone by: the abandoned Hamilton County Halls of Justice. Built in the brutalist style of the 1960s, this hulking courthouse was vacated when a newer justice center opened in 2006. Today, its concrete corridors are eerily intact—courtrooms with broken benches, forgotten case files scattered like ghostly paperwork, and law books frozen mid-decay. The juxtaposition of legal formality and architectural ruin creates a chilling, cinematic quality. It’s as if the weight of decisions once rendered here still lingers, echoing down empty hallways. Photographers and urban explorers are drawn to its solemn symmetry, while locals whisper about its haunted energy. It’s not just a building—it’s a graveyard of verdicts.