The High Victorian Gothic beaut that is Cincinnati's Music Hall houses an auditorium, glamorous foyer, offices, rehearsal rooms, dressing rooms and a ballroom—all indicative of the red-brick structure's 1878 construction date. Photo by Max Herman/Shutterstock

Despite being listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the '70s, starchitect Frank Lloyd Wright's 1954 Spring House, a hemicycle single-family home on the fringes of Tallahassee, Fla., has been suffering from neglect. The Spring House Institute is dedicated to restoring the place, but considering the amount of damage caused by water intrusion, hurricanes, woodpeckers, and cypruss-siding-munching bugs, revitalization won't come easy (or cheap). Photo via Preserve Spring House

Too falling prey to the mighty forces of nature is Cincinnati's historic Union Terminal, regarded by the National Trust for Historic Preservation as "one of the most significant Art Deco structures in the country," and "one of the country's last remaining grand-scale Art Deco railroad terminals." It's marked by it's 106-foot-tall rotunda, decorated in mosaic murals illustrating the history of the city. Photo via Getty Images

Hawaii's first Christian church, a stolid stone-hewn ziggurat built in 1837, is on the National Register of Historic Places, though its bones and electrical wiring have been ravaged by earthquakes, termites, and dry-rot. The structure, which, according to the National Trust for Historic Preservation, "needs immediate attention if it is to be saved," is believed to have been built out of stones taken from a nearby Hawaiian temple and slabbed together with mortar made of burned coral. Photo via Wikimedia Commons

The Art Moderne Chattanooga State Office Building is a ruby granite and limestone megalith constructed in 1950. Despite the fact that it once featured a penthouse lounge, and basement bowling alley, its current owners, the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, have plans to demolish it. Photo via the National Trust of Historic Preservation

According to the National Trust for Historic Preservation, Southern California's Historic Wintersburg "captures the daily community life and spiritual institutions of Japanese settlers as they established a new life in America." Established in the late 1800s,the area is currently owned by a "waste transfer company" eager to rezone the residential area into commercial real estate. Photo via the Historic Wintersburg Preservation Task Force's Facebook

South Dakota's Battle Mountain Sanitarium, a National Historic Monument, is a medical building commissioned by Abraham Lincoln and used by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Six days ago, however, the department announced it would move the services to a new facility 60 miles away, abandoning, as the National Trust for Historic Preservation writes, "dozens of vacant, historic buildings to an uncertain fate." Photo via the National Trust for Historic Preservation

As a former center for African slave trade, Virginia's Shockoe Bottom's is most notorious for its Goodwin's Jail, where Solomon Northup, the man whose story is told in 12 Years a Slave, was held after being kidnapped. There are talks of replacing the area, which has untold amounts of artifacts below its surface, with a minor league baseball stadium. McDill also notes that this loss would be particularly painful because "that history could just be completely lost." The Trust writes that "Shockoe Bottom should be protected as a site of conscience, a place that offers the public a chance to experience, and learn from, this dark chapter in American history." Photo via Getty Images