Top 15 Luxury Locations Left to Ruin

8. Castle Elda

Where: New York's Ossining Year: 1927 Price: $3.2 million Constructed in the late 1920s, the Elda Castle was once known as the Elda Estate. The castle was constructed by David Abercrombie, one of the founders of Abercrombie & Fitch. Built over sixteen years, from 1911 to 1927, Elda occupies sixty acres. Elda is built in the manner of the English cottage.

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Ossining, New York's Elda Castle @imgur / Pinterest Nearly much of the enormous land is composed of live and cut granite. The arches and vaults on the façade of the home give it the appearance of a medieval fortress. David Abercrombie gave police officers permission to drill with rifles on his farm. The estate deteriorated following Abercrombie's 1931 passing.

9. Ayrfield Supervision

Where: Australia's Sydney Year: 1911 Expense: $68.03 million SS Corriman, a 1.14-ton steel warship built in the UK in 1911, was the ancestor of SS Ayrfield. After being converted into a steam collier, the warship SS Corriman served as a supply ship for American forces stationed in the Pacific. The SS Corriman was renamed SS Ayrfrield following the end of World War II. Its builders had no idea that it would transform from a warship to a floating forest.

Australia's SS Ayrfield, Sydney ©Shutterstock/Duncan Struthers Australia transfers the ships it no longer needs to Homebush Bay, where SS Ayrfield was sent in 1972. It floated there for decades, during which time nature took over. Today, luxuriant mangrove trees resemble a true forest growing there.