Satan Claus: 10 More Scary & Creepy Santa Statues
Santa Claus is coming to town... consider yourself warned! These creepy Santa statues hail not from the North Pole but somewhere much, MUCH further south. Talk about Lost in ...
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.Petroleum Pets: Coalinga’s Vanishing Iron Zoo
Painted pump jacks with plenty of personality put the “pet” into petroleum at the venerable and vanishing Iron Zoo in and around Coalinga, California. Formerly known as “Coaling ...
Rollout: 10 More Abandoned Roller Skating Rinks
Roller skating may not have been as “cool” as ice skating but it was one hot recreational activity back in the days before inline was superseded by online. Roller rinks, along with ...
Dire Straights: 10 More Tilted Leaning Towers
Towers gonna tower, at least for a while. Just like rust, however, gravity never sleeps and these ten tipsy towers will sooner or later have a rude awakening. We see your Leaning Tower of ...
Health Careless: 12 Decrepit Abandoned Nursing Homes
These abandoned nursing homes illustrate the contrast between the rising need for senior care facilities and the costs of keeping older nursing homes open. The Horner Memorial Nurses' ...
Storage Worse: 10 Abandoned Self-Storage Facilities
Abandoned self-storage locker units (and those who bid for them) have spawned a popular TV series but what happens when entire facilities go belly-up? It is unfortunate when a self-storage ...
No Respite: 10 More Houses Built Out of Spite
Despite the old maxim that living well is the best revenge, these homeowners have chosen to creatively spite busybody neighbors and inflexible authorities. Zipporah ...
Forever A Loan: 15 Iffy Car Title Cash Loan Shops
Car title cash loan shops offer help (at a price) to those in dire financial straits but how desperate must one be to get a cash fix at any of these 15 places? If you are in Scandinavia and in ...
KISS & Mark Up: 10 Bizarre KISS Branded Products
KISS and its hustling frontman Gene Simmons continue to raise the rock music merchandising bar, licensing thousands of products ranging from banal to bizarre. KISS my buns? Only if they're ...
Outta Sight: 15 Closed & Abandoned Opticians
The optics are all wrong when it comes to these closed and abandoned opticians, optometrists and ophthalmologist shops as anyone can clearly see. There's no optician like an Ophthalmic ...
