Haunting pictures have revealed the decaying remains of a 39-acre college that was first founded to educate freed slaves. Eerie images from the science laboratory show animal skeletons and a taxidermy pheasant scattered on worktops, mountains of glass tubes dumped on the floor and globes left on desks. Other shots show books lined up on shelves and an assemble hall with collapsing stage. The spooky photographs were taken at an abandoned college in south-eastern USA by a photographer known only as Abandoned Southeast using a Canon DSLR camera equipped with Tamron lens.

The Dead College was a private, four-year, liberal arts institution founded in 1875 as part of a missionary effort to educate freed slaves according to the photographers website. The campus is comprised of 17 buildings that are scattered along the hillside.

Prior to its founding, the site was the location of a Confederate battery during the Civil War. Students would construct most of the buildings on campus and even had to build the bricks from scratch.