It is understandably difficult to see the beauty in some abandoned buildings. The neglected and sometimes damaged areas can lead one to associate the structure with decay and ugliness rather than ...
Urban explorers know that it isn't typically the readily-visible locations that hold the most intrigue; it is the hidden places unknown to most of the world. The places that most of us will never ...
The very best public art projects have a way of connecting us to the world around us. They make us look inward while opening ourselves to every other human on the planet. Few projects have had ...
On the Caracas skyline, the Tower of David stands tall and proud. It was once a sign of Venezula's position in the economic marketplace. Today, the 45-story skyscraper has earned a very different ...
A tiny paper village blooms with a thick, cobwebby coating of multi-colored mold, left to decay just as every structure ever built by man would eventually do if humans were to disappear. Italian ...
It's been called the Dubai of northern China, showered with wealth, packed with public infrastructure and located near to precious natural resources in a region plagued by water-supply troubles. ...
It was built upon the birthplace of the Ford automobile, so perhaps it's fitting that Detroit's Michigan Theater is now a parking lot - except that such a use seems to be such a terrible waste ...
Perhaps there's one beneath you right now: a hidden underground passage, crumbling and half-forgotten or even modern and air-conditioned, actively whisking contraband goods from one hidden ...
It's “an elusive pirate treasure of contemporary art” - an abandoned subway chamber under Manhattan that was illegally opened for a year starting in 2009 to allow 103 select artists to paint ...
A lot of things can happen at sea – pirates, mutiny, murder and bad weather not to mention (if you're so inclined) alien abductions, clashes with sea monsters and the mysterious workings of the ...
