Detroit is arguably one of the most fascinating modern cities in the world. This is thanks to the city's unique balance between its former identity as a manufacturing mecca and its current state ...
Ordinarily we hear of artists trying to make art more accessible to the public, but this is one time an artist has purposely placed his work in an out-of-the-way place. After diving to view the ...
What happens to buildings when the people in them simply disappear and leave everything behind? Do the fixtures and fittings rot away or do they stand silent sentinel over the now-abandoned ...
All across America, a familiar type of landscape can be found: empty buildings, decaying storefronts and deserted streets. They're not ghost towns, but rather the remnants of a different time. ...
Antarctica - this huge, frozen continent is bitterly cold, inhospitable as Mars and as far from civilization as any place on the planet. Just getting there has been a struggle; staying there has ...
With some abandoned places in truly far-flung locations, the mystery is less about why they were abandoned - it is how there were people there in the first place. Take these seven wondrous ...
We've seen what our towns and cities look like when people move out and nature moves in - but why does abandonment happen? What factors turn towns into ghost-towns, city centres into wastelands ...
