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Uber Creepy Tour: Abandoned Six Flags New Orleans [69 Pics]

The atmosphere in an abandoned amusement park gives off a nightmarish vibe. With 69 uber-creepy urban exploration photos, we tour abandoned Six Flags New Orleans.

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Abandoned Mental Asylum Hellingly, RIP, 33 Creepy Photo Tribute

Think death and derelict nightmare or think urban explorers’ dream. Here's an ode to abandoned Hellingly Mental Asylum with 33 photos. R.I.P. It's being demolished.

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Holgas, Polaroids & Pinholes: Lush Low-Tech Photography

Film photography is a dying art, but should we so fast to let go of the amazing images created with low-tech cameras like Holgas, pinhole cameras and Polaroids?

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‘Clean City’: São Paulo Scrubbed of Outdoor Ads

What does a city wiped clean of all advertising look like? Like São Paulo, Brazil, which removed all billboards and other ads from every public surface in 2007.

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Itty Bitty Cities: 22 Models That Miniaturize the World

Miniature city models are incredibly useful for city planning and architectural design, but they also bring out the kid in just about everyone who sees them.

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Organic Architect Robert Oshatz's Wowsa Wilkinson Treehouse

Wonderful photos of a WOWSA home in a forest canopy. Created by architect Robert Oshatz, this cool treehouse could turn even the Swiss Family Robinson green with envy.

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Vectorial Elevation Vancouver: Telerobotic Art Installation

An interactive light show in Vancouver called Vectorial Elevation allows users to customize their own light art designs from anywhere in the world.

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Off the Grid: From Squatting to Subterranean Living

Off-grid living can mean a number of things, but for these people, it means living in an unusual place under extraordinary circumstances.

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High-Rise Hoagies: Ground Zero Shipping Container Eatery

Shipping containers are wildly versatile for all kinds of buildings. Now they're being used to feed the workers at the World Trade Center Building Site.

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Even Robots Get the Blues: Photos by Markku Lahdesmaki

Robots do laundry, ride bicycles, hit the sauce and hang out in seedy parts of town in an imagined world where they coexist with humans in relative peace.

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Nine Eyes: A Human Perspective on Google Street View

Compilations of unusual Google Street View images aren't hard to find. But artist Jon Rafman compiles the touching human images most people never see.

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Comprehending Chaos: Designs for Understanding NYC

Living in NYC is confusing enough, but trying to read through government guidelines is nearly impossible. These projects clarify, enlighten and even entertain.

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Going Up? Radical & Subversive Urban Rooftop Dwellings

Urban rooftops are often neglected, but some clever homeowners are using them to their full potential: to support extended, unique, sky-high living areas.

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101 Dizzying Spiral Staircases & Twisted Architectural Art Photos

These 101 dizzy spirals may make you smile or they may induce vertigo, but here are the most impressive, most dizzying, spiraling staircases in the world.

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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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