Ruin Academy: Urban Lab in an Abandoned Building
Occupying an abandoned five-story apartment building in central Taipei, Ruin Academy is a living architectural laboratory where holes drilled in the walls let rain inside, plants grow from the ...
Category: Abandoned Places
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.
Drowned Out: 9 Abandoned Lifeguard Huts & Towers
Battered by wind, waves and relentless weathering, these 9 abandoned lifeguard towers still stand watch though the watchers have long since left. ...
Bread Balks: 13 Old & Moldy Abandoned Bakeries
What becomes of bakeries when they're no longer kneaded? Do the well-bread upper crust take their dough elsewhere, cooking up some other pie-in-the-sky scheme? This baker's dozen of abandoned ...
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. ...
Case Closed: 12 Locked Down Abandoned Police Stations
These unlocked, unloaded and unmanned abandoned police stations suggest that when the long arm of the law is crippled, the end of society must be nigh. ...
7 Monumental Abandoned Wonders of Military Architecture
Rusted sea forts, top-secret submarine bases, sprawling military hospital complexes and entire islands still stand as silent reminders of wars long past, from Ukraine to New York's Hudson River. ...
Off The Deep End: 12 Abandoned Swimming Pools
An abandoned swimming pool is kind of like a fish out of water in that, well, both are out of water. As far as pools go, their dry and empty aspect makes them seem exposed, naked, incomplete and ...
Going Postal: 12 Stamped Out & Abandoned Post Offices
Since the only thing rapid about "snail mail" is the speed it's fading into disuse, no one should be surprised at the growing number of abandoned post offices. These once-proud centers of commerce ...
Gone Fission: 11 Unfinished Nuclear Power Plants
These 11 unfinished, abandoned, canceled, mothballed and/or suspended nuclear power plants will, for better or worse, never know the warmth of split atoms. ...
7 Abandoned Wonders of Residential Architecture
Palatial chateaus, ordinary suburban homes, skyscraper residences and vertical slums alike have been abandoned by their human inhabitants and given over to rot and ruin. Whether they represent ...
