Child’s Place: 10 Eerie Abandoned Orphanages
Orphanages served as repositories for unwanted, illegitimate and unsupportable children in relatively recent yet still socially unenlightened times and places. Modern initiatives in family planning ...
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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. ...
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 ...
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 Institutional Architecture
Churches, prisons, psychiatric hospitals and courthouses given over to the elements can sometimes taken on a mythic significance, given a haunting, creepy beauty by the passage of time. Removed ...
38 Graffiti Monsters That Go Beyond Halloween Horror
Halloween may be over, but the ghouls and skeletons aren't going anywhere. Turn down the wrong side-street and the stuff of nightmares might be lurking just around the corner. ...
Carbuncle Cup: Awards for the UK’s Ugliest New Buildings
The Carbuncle Cup is an annual award bestowed by Building Design magazine upon the ugliest building in the UK over the past 12 months. Since 2006 the dubious distinction of winning the Carbuncle ...
Abandoned Schools: Out For Summer & Then Out Forever
One of the sweetest sounds to students is when that last bell in the last class rings to signal school is out for summer. In the words of Alice Cooper, "Out for summer. Out till fall. We might not ...
WebUrbanist Fanbase Artist Showcase (Part 2)
Welcome to part two of our fanbase artist showcase. We often get emails from artists wanting to have their works showcased on the site and therefore we have started this monthly feature to give ...
Junk Culture: 12 Terrific Trash Can & Garbage Bin Designs
Trashcans, garbage bins, room wastebaskets, whatever - the humble refuse receptacle is part and parcel of our consumable (and disposable) society. These Dirty Dozen not only take on the thankless ...
