Think the daily grind on public transit is commuter hell? Try taking a double-decker bus for a drive in the Australian Outback... just don't try taking it back.

Looking like reinforced concrete reflections of topographic terrain, the abandoned ruins of once raucous skateparks lie scattered across the urban landscape.

Photographer James Griffioen captures Detroit's 'Feral Houses', abandoned homes that are overtaken by trees and ivy, enhancing their sense of decay.

Built in 1922, the steeply banked concrete curves of Spain's Sitges-Terramar auto racetrack have slumbered in quiescence for the better part of a century.

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.

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.

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!

A long-abandoned underground space may soon be turned into a subterranean version of the High Line park, complete with high-tech sunlight harvesting.

Zombie Apocalypse? Bring it on! I'll be safe and sound above the fray in the partially moss-covered concrete winding tower at Japan's abandoned Shime coal mine.

Sprawling in the shadow of Japan's Mt Fuji, Gulliver's Kingdom Theme Park was nurtured on government stimulus funds but withered away when the yen tap ran dry.