Missed Fortune: 15 Closed & Abandoned Psychic Shops
Psychic reader shops and palmist kiosks advertise the promise of a happier, more successful future yet somehow never foresee their own unfortunate demise. The old "botched prediction" ...
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Face Plants: 10 Lifeless Abandoned Garden Centers
Spring has sprung – officially, at least – as green-thumbed gardeners shop for seeds, shrubs and soil... but not at these abandoned garden centers. Speaking of green thumbs, the ...
Down The Tubes: 10 Closed & Abandoned TV Factories
TV factories once churned out countless cathode ray tube television sets but when the Golden Age of Television faded to black, the TV factories followed. You have to look for the ...
Urban Explorers Scuba Dive Through an Abandoned Submerged Soviet Prison Camp
How eerie must it be to swim past submerged lamp posts, barbed wire and other remnants of an old Soviet prison while scuba diving in a former quarry? The setting is dangerous; visitors might ...
Toy Boxed: 10 Closed & Abandoned Toys R Us Stores
It took 60 years for Toys 'R' Us to rise to a Category Killer corporation... and fall victim to bankruptcy when economics told it to put the toys away. Toys 'R' Us can trace its roots back ...
Deserted Dollhouse: Street Artist Crafts Eerie Miniature Abandoned Home
Created over the course of six months, this 1:10 scale model of a rundown home may be the most creepy and depressing dollhouse ever created, softened somewhat with miniaturized graffiti murals by ...
Link Rot: ‘Social Decay’ Renders Tech Media Giants as Urban Abandonments
Physical businesses that fall on hard times often leave signs in the built environment, like the distinctive facades of deserted or adapted Pizza Huts, but what might social media sites look like ...
All Fall Down: 2017’s Biggest Building Implosions
Our infrastructure may be falling apart but sometimes it falls faster AND according to plan thanks to building implosions – aka, controlled demolition. The Georgia Dome in ...
Rollout: 10 More Abandoned Roller Skating Rinks
Roller skating may not have been as “cool” as ice skating but it was one hot recreational activity back in the days before inline was superseded by online. Roller rinks, along with ...
Health Careless: 12 Decrepit Abandoned Nursing Homes
These abandoned nursing homes illustrate the contrast between the rising need for senior care facilities and the costs of keeping older nursing homes open. The Horner Memorial Nurses' ...
