Royal Blush: Japan’s Abandoned Queen Chateau Soapland
Fleeting moments of pleasure, a lifetime of neglect: that pretty much sums up the Queen Chateau soapland, a now-abandoned “brothel with baths” in Mito, Japan. ...
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Transformer Theater: Deserted House, Upcycled in Disguise
This incredible transforming theater, built from salvaged pieces of a deserted home, is more than meets the eye. A community theater in disguise, its contents unfold from a conventional A-frame ...
Abandoned Bridge Amphitheater Reclaims Urban Space
An abandoned, deteriorating bridge in the city of Kosice in Slovakia has been rehabbed and modified to serve as an amphitheater and public gathering space that glows in bright rainbow colors at ...
You’re Fired: 9 Smokin’ Hot Abandoned Match Factories
Churned out by the billions in enormous unsafe factories, matches were indispensable whether the aim was repelling Morlocks or merely lighting one's pipe. ...
Desolate Desertions: 7 Abandoned Wonders of Antarctica
At the end of the earth, in some of the most remote places known to man, the remains of ill-advised human exploration and activity can be found in the form of rusting equipment, buildings almost ...
Time-Lapse Tagging: Short Film Reveals Secrets of Graffiti
You see the finished pieces all over - ornate, curved and layered - but rarely get such a vivid and complete all-angle, real-time view of how their tags come together. If you are even remotely ...
End Of The Story: 12 Abandoned & Forgotten Bookmobiles
Remember bookmobiles? Bookmobiles were bus-like rolling libraries that brought the joy of reading to folks who didn't have easy access to books. Remember books? ...
Mansions to Mines: 7 Abandoned Wonders of Modern Africa
Ranging from eerie, remote desert settlements in the hottest place on earth to perfectly pastel modern ghost towns, Africa's standout abandonments are as diverse and fascinating as the continent ...
Cradle to Graveyard: 7 Abandoned Wonders of the Middle East
Eerie ghost towns, villages abandoned after shocking massacres, the palaces of deposed dictators and mansions so well preserved they're like 1950s time capsules are among the Middle East's ...
Highest Steam: 9 Abandoned Railroad & Train Bridge Trestles
Durable by design and situated by necessity in difficult to access locations, train trestles are often all that remain when railroads are closed and abandoned. ...
