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Ever wanted to explore abandoned places? Real-life urban exploration and building infiltration can be challenging, dangerous and even illegal. Here is your chance to try out urbex from the comfort of your computer – from deserted buildings to entire abandoned towns and cities, here are some of the most amazing abandoned locations around the world.

Ghost Ships: Ten Scary Spirits Of The Seven Seas

Mysterious ghost ships with missing crews have spiced the tales of mariners for hundreds of years. Here are ten of the scariest ships you ever will "sea".

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52 Photos of a Poisonous, Abandoned Factory: Enter & Die

"This building is out of order! You are not allowed to enter because you may DIE!" Welcome the mercury poisoned, abandoned Polam Philips factory in Poland.

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Fallen Empire: Dictator's Destroyed & Recycled Palaces

When Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was removed from power, his palaces were used as temporary shelter for US troops. Photographer Richard Mosse explored.

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Modern Trolls: Bridges as Homes & Mini-Cities

Inhabited bridges were once very common all across Europe and other parts of the world. Today, not many remain, but will they make a resurgence in the future?

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The Futuro House: Space Age Architecture Comes Home!

Suddenly it's 1968! Matti Suuronen's plastic fantastic Futuro house let homeowners live in Space Age style without ever having to leave their front yards.

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Sound Mirrors: Before Radar, Hearing Was Believing

Sound Mirrors, Acoustic Horns and War Tubas were the only means of detecting enemy aircraft before the invention of radar - and for some time after.

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Smokin' Stacks: 10 Ways To Upcycle Industrial Chimneys

Carbon chugging chimneys are shifting from sooty to beauty through new artistic visions and via a variety of infrastructure renewal projects.

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Blown To Smithereens: The Secret Story Of Survival Town

Survival Town was a group of buildings and structures designed to measure the effects of an atomic weapon. On May 5, 1955, Survival Town became Loserville.

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War and Pieces: 9 Preserved Bombed-Out WWII Buildings

These 9 examples of preserved buildings stand, in stark contrast to their successors, as testaments to a war that forever changed the world we live in.

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Recycled Architecture: 15 Creatively Converted Homes

Billboards, fire towers, pig barns and factories are converted into stunning modern homes that preserve the history of the original structures.

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7 Remotest Abandoned Places & Buildings

Seven examples where the mystery is less about why these places were abandoned - but how there were people there in the first place.

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At World’s End: 13 More Post-Apocalyptic Visions

The world will end some day, but will anyone be left to observe the final sunset? Here are 13 more visions of what a post-apocalyptic world might be like.

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Abandonment In Action: 8 Cities That Might Not Make It

We've seen what our deserted towns and lost cities look like when people move out and nature moves in - but why does abandonment happen?

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Faith Alone: 7 Stunning Abandoned Churches

When it comes to architecture, churches have always had some of the most awe-inspiring, beautiful designs.

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12 Real-Life Locations Behind Out-of-this-World Films

Abandoned power plants, mental hospitals, castles and public buildings stand in for out-of-this-world settings in horror, sci-fi and fantasy movies.

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