Over a million homes are abandoned or left vacant each year due to an array of reasons from the high cost of renovation and repairs, natural and ecological disasters, death of the neighborhood, crime and violence, or economic busts. Once a refuge of happy families, many abandoned houses still remain jilted today … Read more
At some point in time, the fixing cost of a car becomes too hefty and no longer worth spending bucks on. Otherwise, the car goes beyond repair, turning into a junker that most people certainly don’t want to deal with. When that happens, most owners just park their car somewhere, drifting it … Read more
Camp Century was an Arctic US military scientific research base in Greenland, located 240 kilometers east of Thule Air Base. When it was first built, Camp Century was publicized as a demonstration for low-cost ice-cap military outposts and a facility for scientific research. Camp Century was a training camp for Project Iceworm, … Read more
UK’s Red Telephone Box Graveyard These red public telephone boxes once filled the streets of the UK. From the roads of Bermuda to Malta, these telephone boxes stood proudly on almost every street corners of in the UK. When these modernized and brightly colored telephone boxes were invented, they offered the citizens … Read more
Cabinet War Rooms history The Cabinet War Rooms was once the most important structure in Great Britain as well as one of the nation’s best kept secrets. The bunker was constructed under the Treasury building on Whitehall, the bunker went in to operation in 1939, in time for Churchill’s government to move … Read more
As of July 18, 2013, the Motor City officially ran out of gas. Filing for for Chapter 9 bankruptcy, Detroit’s debts–a whopping $18 to $20 billion–represent the largest municipal filing for bankruptcy in United States history. And as its solvency has gone down the drain, so too has its population. In 1950, … Read more
Heritage USA – The Abandoned Theme Park This is the amusement park that Our Lady of the Tattooed Eyebrows built. At its height in the mid-1980s, Heritage USA, a Jesus theme and water park built by fiery PTL televangelist Jim Bakker and his then-wife, the late Tammy Faye Bakker Messner, was a … Read more
Stories over the years of the Dunlop Factory being sold to developers have been told, yet none seemed to be true and it kept standing, but now I fear it is and the days of the Dunlop factory are numbered. Fences have been erected, padlocks put back on the fences and even … Read more
Beira is an important African coastal port and the second-largest city in Mozambique. In the mid-1950s the ruling Portuguese Estado Novo regime wanted to build luxurious oceanfront quarters for VIPs visiting Beira. The result was the Grande Hotel, a beautiful Art Deco resort opened in 1955. When completed it was the pride … Read more
Lincoln Way is an Abandoned Neighborhood in Clairton Lincoln Way is an abandoned neighborhood in Clairton, PA across from U.S. Steel’s Clairton Works, which is only about 30 minutes outside of Pittsburgh City. Lincoln Way consisted of 52 properties but never more than 40 houses. Sixteen families were driven from their homes … Read more
China is an unrivalled powerhouse in the global economy. For the last three decades, its growth has outpaced that of all other nations. Entire industries that took decades to mature in the West have sprung up in just a few years. Much of this activity takes place in designated industrial zones where … Read more
This doll factory in Spain has an uncomfortable way of getting under your skin. It was abandoned sometime in the ’80s, but for some reason everything was left behind—boxes of doll parts, machinery, half-finished dolls still lying on the assembly line—everything. It’s as if everybody just vanished in the middle of the … Read more