It’s not often that you can choose from dozens of cafes situated high above a crowded urban plaza, gazing out at the landscape from a table on the balcony, all for the price of a coffee. In Ho ...
The dark architectural equivalent of 'Faces of Meth,' these compiled Google Street View images of Detroit from 2009 through 2013 paint a poignant portrait of decay in the city. Entitled ...
A languishing, yellowed church in Washington D.C. underwent a dramatic transformation in every shade of the rainbow, with street artist HENSE using it like a massive urban canvas. The church is ...
These castle-like structures, skeletal high-rises and rusting remains of the golden age of industry are monuments to themselves, still standing despite decades of neglect. Formerly factories, ...
70 nautical miles off the coast of Key West in Florida is a series of seven islands set among a graveyard of over 200 ships, crowned with a massive 19th century fortress that lay abandoned for ...
In the last century, the human population has become increasingly urban, concentrating in city centers and suburbs. As younger generations leave and small farms are displaced by commercial ...
Just miles from center of Manhattan is a neighborhood that's almost entirely abandoned, its streets flooding with three feet of water every time it rains, its houses soft with rot, its yards ...
The psychological stress and real-life danger of being stuck on an experimental underwater oil platform, teetering on the edge of a deep-water trench, was captured with eerie perfection in James ...
The collapse of industries on which entire towns rely can have epic, far-reaching effects. While Detroit may be the most-discussed example of industrial collapse and subsequent economic ruin, ...
Bangkok's skeletal ghosts of prosperity past aren't the only super-tall structures left vacant for decades on end to deteriorate until they're either heroically saved or razed to the ground. ...
