Missed Fortune: 15 Closed & Abandoned Psychic Shops
Psychic reader shops and palmist kiosks advertise the promise of a happier, more successful future yet somehow never foresee their own unfortunate demise. The old "botched prediction" ...
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.
Requiem for Pianos: Dilapidated Instruments Photographed Among Ruins
Once standing as symbols of prosperity within the luxurious interiors of grand European villas, these broken pianos have played their last tunes, now rotting among ruins. Photographer Romain ...
Face Plants: 10 Lifeless Abandoned Garden Centers
Spring has sprung – officially, at least – as green-thumbed gardeners shop for seeds, shrubs and soil... but not at these abandoned garden centers. Speaking of green thumbs, the ...
Down The Tubes: 10 Closed & Abandoned TV Factories
TV factories once churned out countless cathode ray tube television sets but when the Golden Age of Television faded to black, the TV factories followed. You have to look for the ...
Toy Boxed: 10 Closed & Abandoned Toys R Us Stores
It took 60 years for Toys 'R' Us to rise to a Category Killer corporation... and fall victim to bankruptcy when economics told it to put the toys away. Toys 'R' Us can trace its roots back ...
Link Rot: ‘Social Decay’ Renders Tech Media Giants as Urban Abandonments
Physical businesses that fall on hard times often leave signs in the built environment, like the distinctive facades of deserted or adapted Pizza Huts, but what might social media sites look like ...
Architecture as the Phoenix: 13 Modern Structures Borne from Rot and Ruin
There's something really special about an architectural restoration project that takes the ruins of an old historic structure and visibly preserves them by integrating them into a more modern ...
All Fall Down: 2017’s Biggest Building Implosions
Our infrastructure may be falling apart but sometimes it falls faster AND according to plan thanks to building implosions – aka, controlled demolition. The Georgia Dome in ...
Underwater Castle: 3,000-Year-Old Ruin Discovered in Turkey’s Largest Lake
Deep in Turkey's biggest body of water, Lake Van, a secret fortress lay dormant for thousands of years, discovered recently by a team of university archaeologists following local rumors of a ...
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 ...
