Nothing Shocking: Abandoned & Derelict Battery Factories
These former battery factories once lead, er, led the way in electrifying society; now they sit abandoned in environs rife with heavy metal contamination. The abandoned Power City ...
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Pokédrone Go: Micro-Drone Augments Reach for Pokémon Players
Pokémon Go has hit the ground running, breaking game release records and getting people out of the house and onto city streets. This new drone promises to take the game even further, allowing ...
Synth Series: Yarn Installation Represents Music in 3D
An abandoned building becomes the setting for a surreal installation of colorful criss-crossing yarn as artist duo Toki seeks to render music in physical form. Recent architecture grads ...
The Hand of Man: Bonsai Hangs Inside Abandoned Power Plant
Inside the cooling tower of an abandoned power plant, a tiny bonsai tree hangs from a geometric metal frame, its roots exposed. The only other sign of life inside the cavernous space is an ...
Aerial Urbex: 7 Difficult Deserted Places Filmed with Drones
Drones have changed the landscape of urban exploration and building infiltration, allowing their navigators access to toxic, irradiated, forbidden and structurally unsound places. These haunting ...
Lowline for NYC: World’s First Underground Park in Manhattan
Using fiber optics as "remote skylights" to pipe illumination down from the surface, this bold plan aims to transform a century-old trolley station into a bright and green subterranean park. New ...
Radiotopia Fundraiser: Support 7 Story-Centric PRX Podcasts
Last year, Roman Mars of 99% Invisible and PRX broke records, raising $375,000 with a wildly successful Kickstarter campaign - this year, Radiotopia aims to collect $250,000 in contributions on ...
The Desertron: World’s Largest Super Collider Lies Abandoned
Designed to break records held by the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, the Superconducting Super Collider built (and abandoned) in Texas features fourteen miles of unseen and unused underground ...
Top of the World: 9 Incredible POV Climbs & Dizzying Selfies
Your stomach will drop just looking at the stunning photos captured by some of the world's most daring urban explorers, who scale insanely high towers all the way to the top and take casual ...
Pawn Scars: 10 Closed & Abandoned Pawn Shops
Pawn shops and pawnbrokers typically thrive in economic downturns so how tough must the times be when even pawn shops throw in the towel? ...
