Blood Red: 30 Vintage Soviet Accident Prevention Posters
In Soviet Russia, accident prevent you! That's the message rendered in classic commie-propaganda style via these thirty soviet accident prevention posters. Graphic workplace accident ...
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Scrubbed: 12 Washed Up & Washed Out Abandoned Bathhouses
Public baths may have a checkered history and a not-so-squeaky-clean image but these dozen abandoned bathhouses prove things aren't always cut & dried (lead image above by Jim Denham). ...
We Are Not Amused: 15 Creepy Abandoned Theme Parks
Once delightful domains of sight and sound, these creepy abandoned theme parks now moulder away in silence attended only by shadows and memories. ...
Detroit Agate: Auto Factory Paints Accidentally Form ‘Fordite’
Culled from paint deposits in old car factories, these may look like exotic gemstones, but their colors reflect years of layering and hundreds to thousands of assembly-line stops. They are ...
Drawn Together: The Evolution of Architectural Scale Figures
As they evolved, illustrated figures in architecture (sometimes called ‘scalies') have grown to have more personality, color and life, serving as more than a means to measure ...
Shunned Shine State: 10 More Abandoned Wonders Of Florida
Florida may be America's Sunshine State but these odd abandoned wonders reveal a darker side to the land of oranges, alligators and retirement communities. ...
Behind the Scenes: Hidden Collections Storage at the Smithsonian
It is hard to imagine just how extensive, colorful and generally amazing the plant, animal, fossil and rock archives at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History (NMNH) in Washington, D.C. really ...
Fruitless: 10 Abandoned Roadside Fruit & Produce Stands
Once vital threads in the fabric of Americana, these abandoned fruit & produce stands no longer entice hungry travelers into making roadside pit stops. ...
Time Travel in China: Photos Reveal A Century of Dramatic Growth
Few nations have experienced quite the explosive rate of growth over the last century as China, and a new photo series shows us just how dramatic those changes actually look on the ground. ...
Get Booked: ‘A Burglar’s Guide to the City’ by Geoff Manaugh
Take a break and enter the world of urban villains, who see and seek out hidden opportunities in built environments, forever on the lookout for architectural workarounds and infrastructural ...
