Abandoned Philadelphia: The Divine Lorraine Hotel
One of Philadelphia's most intriguing buildings stands at a prominent intersection on the north side of the city, a Victorian beauty that once housed wealthy residents and later served as a ...
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Abandoned Asylums in Focus: Photos by Jeremy Harris
It's not just the morbid and macabre horror movie ambiance of abandoned psychiatric facilities that makes them so haunting and fascinating; it's the shadows of the people who often lived their ...
Abandoned Tunnel Used for Secret Race Car Testing
Locals in the area of Donegal, Pennsylvania would often scratch their heads at the reverberating sounds of roaring car engines and squealing tires seeming to come from beneath a nearby mountain ...
Lawless Metropolis: Life in Kowloon Walled City, Then & Now
Twenty years ago, a dank, lawless, congested and compacted city located just outside Hong Kong was evacuated and destroyed, putting an end to the nearly century-old settlement first created as a ...
Ruin Academy: Urban Lab in an Abandoned Building
Occupying an abandoned five-story apartment building in central Taipei, Ruin Academy is a living architectural laboratory where holes drilled in the walls let rain inside, plants grow from the ...
Waste Not: 1890s Urinal Turned into a Sandwich Shop
Sit at a counter embedded into a wall of urinals and enjoy a nice sandwich at Attendant, an eatery in London built in a former men's bathroom. While it's virtually unrecognizable after an ...
Abandoned Power Station Transformed into a Roller Coaster
An abandoned power station that has been an iconic part of London's skyline since 1933 is transformed into a playground and museum in the "Architectural Ride London" proposal by Atelier Zündel ...
7 Monumental Abandoned Wonders of Military Architecture
Rusted sea forts, top-secret submarine bases, sprawling military hospital complexes and entire islands still stand as silent reminders of wars long past, from Ukraine to New York's Hudson River. ...
Abandoned App Leads You to Local Urban Exploration Sites
Half the fun of exploring abandoned places is the hunt - stumbling upon obscure sites, or determining the precise location of better-known ones with a collection of vague clues from previous ...
Abandoned Church Becomes Brilliant Urban Art Installation
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 ...
