Inn Trouble: Abandoned Brandermill Inn & Conference Center
The abandoned Brandermill Inn and Conference Center in Chesterfield, VA jumped the shark after a failed Ponzi scheme drained all of its operating funds. Location, location, location... ...
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Reframing Modernism: Famously Severe Homes Softened by Lush Landscapes
The site and setting of Modernist masterpieces is a key ingredient of their aesthetic, so what, wondered one architect, would happen if these famous buildings were repositioned, set instead in ...
Cone Founded: The Abandoned Yuengling Ice Creamery
The Yuengling Ice Creamery not only helped the brewery survive Prohibition, it closed over a half-century after the Eighteenth Amendment was repealed. D. G. Yuengling & Son bears the ...
Store Age: Eerie Abandoned Brick Warehouse In Richmond
An abandoned warehouse in Richmond, VA, exquisitely photographed by Joel Handwerk of Lithium Photo, is an earthbound example of magnificent desolation. Apollo 11 astronaut (and second man ...
Once A Pawn A Time: 12 More Abandoned Pawn Shops
These dozen closed and abandoned pawn shops refute the myth of a robust economy where tax cuts and less regulation trickle down to those in the greatest need. Pawn shops are the canaries ...
Das Bus: 15 Quirky & Kitschy German Bus Shelters
These 15 bus shelters from Germany express a distinctive design aesthetic that reflects the tension between stolid practicality and startling creativity. These two bus shelters face each ...
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 ...
Reconstructing Ruins: Gifs Reanimate 7 Ancient Architectural Wonders
To visitors, architectural ruins are simply a modern reality, and their imagined reconstruction is left to descriptive plaques, statics images and the human imagination, but this series of ...
You’re Fired: 10 Famed Flamed Statues & Monuments
Gone up in flames and burned down to the ground – these 10 well-known statues, monuments and large-scale advertisements all fell to fire, if not fury. “I like big fat men like you,” ...
Sensei-tion: Kyoto U’s Much-Defaced Orita Bust
A bronze bust of the late educator Hikoichi Orita was vandalized so often, Kyoto University administrators put it into storage – still, the students persisted. Orita-sensei played an ...
