Great Blight North: 7 Abandoned Wonders of Canada
Canada's abandoned wonders include greying neoclassical banks in downtown Toronto, forgotten asylums, beautiful Beaux Arts hydro power stations and a ghost town so eerily well-preserved it feels ...
Category: Travel
From wonders of the world to boutique hotels, parkour and free running to building jumping and rooftopping, these articles are pure inspirational fuel for the adventurous traveler seeking something off the beaten path.
Cold Comfort: 7 Abandoned Wonders of Scandinavia
A Russian ghost town on a Norwegian island in the Arctic, decaying modernist houses in Sweden and woodland homes taken over by wildlife in Finland are among the abandoned treasures of Scandinavia ...
Top 40 of the Year: Essential 2013 Article List for Urbanists
As any experienced urbanist can tell you, city life is rarely dull and this year has proven no exception - from traffic-topping articles to staff-picked stories, here are WebUrbanist's must-read ...
Pointing Nowhere: Mysterious Giant Arrows in Remote Places
The remains of large concrete arrows can be found in patches of dirt and grass across the United States from New York to San Francisco. Many locals have wondered what they're for, seemingly ...
Secret Slums: Ramshackle Rooftop Villages of Hong Kong
These hidden shanty towns, often invisible from the streets below, sprawl like surrealist suburbs across the roofs of one of the most densely-populated and expensive cities in the ...
Beer Bath: Underground Brewery Converted to Thermal Spa
Lounge in large wooden vats that once contained gallons upon gallons of beer, gazing up at the original stone arches in subterranean vaulted chambers. The Hürlimann Brewery in Zurich, built in ...
Great Ghost Cities: 7 Eerie Abandoned Wonders of China
An ancient city made of intricately carved stone sits silent at the bottom of a lake, a replica of Paris complete with an Eiffel Tower is eerily empty, and a city leveled by disaster has been ...
Tree Tombs & Cliffside Coffins: 13 Unique Cemeteries
In America we have a seemingly endless succession of near-identical cemeteries, filled with orderly rows of bland stones that tell us nearly nothing about the people buried underfoot. But in ...
Haunted Highlands: 7 Abandoned Wonders of Scotland
Perhaps there's something special in the Scottish temperament that explains the presence of such an unusual number of stunning castle-like abandoned hospitals. A certain appreciation for history ...
Larger Than Life: 10 Monuments Honoring Nelson Mandela
Though Nelson Mandela's passing will spur the creation of memorials worldwide, a number of larger-than-life tributes are already extant or planned. ...
