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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.
Bread Balks: 13 Old & Moldy Abandoned Bakeries
This baker's dozen of abandoned bakeries have closed their oven doors for good; victims of flour play, management missed cakes and muffin'd opportunities.
Treehouse Taster: 3 Wildly Different Types of Tree Houses
Some strange treehouses have slipped through the cracks, their stories and histories unknown, yet the images of them are too amazing to go un-shown.
A+ Architecture: The World's Most Dazzling Designs
The winners of Architizer's first annual A+ Awards architectural design contest prove that modern architecture is for everyone, not exclusively for elites.
Waste Not: 1890s Urinal Turned into a Sandwich Shop
A Victorian-era underground restroom that had been abandoned since the 1960s has been renovated into a restaurant, with cafe seating in the former urinals.
High Seas Venture: SF Tech Incubator in International Waters
Imagine heading out from San Francisco to a bustling technology hub closer than Silicon Valley ... yet an entire country away in a place that requires no work visa to visit or stay.
Going Downhill Fast: 12 Abandoned Ski Resorts
These dozen doomed ski resorts, like most seasonal winter businesses, can fall off the financial cliff by something as ironically simple as a lack of snow.
Mobile 3D-Printed House Factory in a Shipping Container
Dutch architects DUS plan to build the first 3D-printed house alongside a canal in Amsterdam using a mobile 3D printer in a shipping container.
Tentacle-Like Tubular Slide Swirls Through NYC Penthouse
An incredible tentacle-like mirrored steel slide swirls and twists through four stories of a bright white, modern penthouse in Manhattan.
Pirate Island Radio Station Invaded, Dismantled & Rebuilt
Few works of architecture can boast half so strange a history as this remarkable rebuilt structure now serving as a restaurant in the waters of Amsterdam.
Abandoned Power Station Transformed into a Roller Coaster
London's iconic Battersea Power Station, which has been abandoned since the 1980s, could turn into a theme park and museum in this wild rollercoaster concept.
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