Lost Connection: 15 Closed & Abandoned Internet Cafés
Before WiFi and smartphones stole their thunder, internet cafés like these closed and abandoned relics offered cheap & easy access to the World Wide Web. As the original public ...
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Druid Awakening: A Dozen Hard Rockin’ Modern Stonehenges
These 12 modern homages to Stonehenge would likely bemuse, befuddle and bewilder those who constructed the original prehistoric standing stone circle. Much like the original Stonehenge ...
Let’s Make A Dill: 11 Closed & Abandoned Pickle Factories
The Age of Pickles ended when home refrigeration arrived, souring prospects for pickling businesses and leaving abandoned pickle factories hither and yon. Folks living in tropic and ...
Makeup Not War: Soviet Army Monument’s Many Makeovers
In recent years the Monument to the Soviet Army in Sofia, Bulgaria has become a colorful canvas for protesters, much to the chagrin of Russian politicians. The Monument to the ...
Out Of Limits: 15 Retro-Futuristic Soviet Town Welcome Signs
In Soviet Russia, town welcome you... with retro-futuristic city limits signs that promised more than the blustery, blustering Cold War-era USSR could deliver. The welcome is, er, radiant ...
Timelapse Tour: Watch How Global Cities Grow Between 1984 and 2016
Human civilization has grown and expanded at an amazing rate - or alarming, depending on who you ask - and you can watch the last 32 years of it unfold via satellite imagery thanks to Google’s ...
Time Machines: Langdon Clay’s Gritty Cars Of New York City
Photographer Langdon Clay captured New York's bruised & battered road warriors at rest, evoking a dirtier and more dangerous era of the city that never sleeps. New York City in the ...
Kid Stuffed: 10 More Eerie Abandoned Orphanages
Little orphans any? Not so much these days thanks to fostering and improved economies, the result being many former orphanages have been left eerily abandoned. While many orphanages ...
Book-Shaped Pavilion in Korea Celebrates Historic Birthplace of Printing
In 1377, nearly a century before the famous Gutenberg Bible was printed in Germany, the Jikji anthology was made using movable metal type, then bound and and protected for centuries to ...
Quacked Up: Cleveland’s Legendary “Duck Factory”
The “Duck Factory”, a century-old abandoned warehouse in Cleveland's Little Italy home to hundreds of toy rubber ducks, has finally kicked the bucket. Urbex explorers – not to ...
