Close Calls: 12 Breathtakingly Creative Garage Doors
A garage door's main function is keeping what's inside safe from prying eyes but these creative garage doors keep all eyes focused on the outside. Sometimes great garage doors ...
Author: Steve
An outstanding researcher and clever writer who has been with WebUrbanist for over ten years, Steve brings a twist of creative humor into the mix with articles covering abandoned shops and buildings, offbeat signage & branding, eyebrow-raising architecture and much, much more. Steve can also be found exploring green innovations at WebEcoist and examining jaw-dropping pet products and pet-related news at PetsLady.Stripped: 12 Sleazy Abandoned Adult Movie Theaters
These 12 abandoned adult movie theaters hark back to the days before the advent of the internet let porn aficionados get their kicks without leaving home. The bedraggled Franklin ...
Turn On: Backwards Glances From Famous Monuments
Photographer Oliver Curtis turns his back on some of the world's most famous monuments, capturing a wholly unexpected side to these familiar cultural icons. If life is a journey and not a ...
Stopped Steps: 10 Declining Abandoned Escalators
Well, that did NOT escalate quickly. These busted up and broken down abandoned escalators won't be devouring any CROC plastic sandals anytime soon. An outdoor escalator? In damp, rainy ...
Quacked Up: Cleveland’s Legendary “Duck Factory”
The “Duck Factory”, a century-old abandoned warehouse in Cleveland's Little Italy home to hundreds of toy rubber ducks, has finally kicked the bucket. Urbex explorers – not to ...
Blood Red: 30 Vintage Soviet Accident Prevention Posters
In Soviet Russia, accident prevent you! That's the message rendered in classic commie-propaganda style via these thirty soviet accident prevention posters. Graphic workplace accident ...
Silence Of The Lamps: 10 Abandoned Light Bulb Factories
Things may look dim for these abandoned light bulb factories but hopefully the last worker out the door remembered to flip the switch on their way out. ...
Scrubbed: 12 Washed Up & Washed Out Abandoned Bathhouses
Public baths may have a checkered history and a not-so-squeaky-clean image but these dozen abandoned bathhouses prove things aren't always cut & dried (lead image above by Jim Denham). ...
White Water Roofing: Wild Water Tanks Top Cool Punjabi Homes
Out to impress the neighbors in Punjab, India? Try topping your humble abode with a cool water tank rendered as a jet, blossom, or bodybuilder. ...
Cows Of A Different Color: The Moooving Art Project
The Moooving Art project in Shepparton, Australia, promotes the region's dairy industry via dozens of fiberglass cows creatively painted by local artists. ...
