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WebUrbanist | Archived Articles on Abandoned Places

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.

Abandoned Hollywood Theater Hidden Above New York Bodega

These photos give us a glimpse of a nearly century-old abandoned theater above a grocery store in New York, in a building which is due to be demolished.

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High Anxiety: Rooftop Excavators Tear Down from Up Top

Rooftop excavators on highrise buildings are the demolition equivalent of painting one's self into a corner, several hundred feet above the ground.

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Surreal Estate: China's Village of Empty Villas

In the Year of the Dragon, white elephants abound as an eerie village of empty and abandoned villas epitomizes China's ever-expanding real estate bubble.

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Antwerp's Abandoned Tunnels House Subterranean Museum

The abandoned metro tunnels beneath Antwerp turn into an underground architectural museum mimicking an archaeological site in this intriguing proposal.

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Art in Abandoned Places: 14 Inspiring Projects

Beams of colored light, murals crafted from tape, unexpected messages and jaw-dropping sculptures turn abandoned places into guerrilla art galleries.

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Global Warning: The Arctic's Abandoned DEW Line Stations

High above the Arctic Circle, the mid-1950s vintage remains of the DEW Line sit preserved by some of the coldest temperatures found outside Antarctica.

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Altered Abandonments: Marjan Teeuwen's Destroyed Houses

Artist Marjan Teeuwen deconstructs abandoned places, from apartment blocks in Amsterdam to houses in Russia, and crafts the detritus into eerie installations.

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Floatography: Beautifully Surreal Underwater Art Gallery

Most artists try to make their art as accessible as possible. This photographer chose to submerge his photos 100 feet beneath the surface of the ocean.

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Halloween Horror: America's 13 Scariest Haunted Houses

Demented clowns with chainsaws, monster spiders, human meat-processing, crazed killers - face all of these horrors and more at America's scariest haunted houses.

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Stored Potential: The Art Of Omaha's Grain Elevators

The Stored Potential project offers American artists some towering exposure on the sides of an enormous, vacant Omaha grain elevator. Prepare to be a-maized!

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