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Abandoned Route 66: The Tourist Trap Ghost Town

(c) El Toro Route 66; where all those wonderfully off-beat attractions of ‘Roadside America’ culture first sprouted. By the 1920s, Route 66, known then as the National Trail, was fast-becoming the most popular road in the country for Westward pioneers travelling across the Diablo Canyon. A 19th century isolated trading post in Arizona suddenly became a…

French No Man’s Land looking Suspiciously Like a Wes Anderson Film Set

Staring out of the passenger seat window on car journeys through France, I’ve always found the roadscape of highways strangely alluring ever since I was a small child. What lives at the side of the road in a no man’s land of concrete and abandon are often ignored and very rarely the subject of artistic…

England’s Secret Historic Hotel Network

I don’t know what’s more astonishing– discovering so many spectacular historic buildings where ordinary people can actually spend the night, or the fact that most of them won’t cost me more than £20 per person a night … OR that it took me so long to discover the Landmark Trust. Hiding in the shadows of the mainstream…

The Abandoned 1920s Iconic Berlin Airport is Now the City’s Largest Park

Airports can be pretty impressive spaces, but what good is it if you can’t run wild in them? Well, in Berlin, you can do just that… Image (c) Ciaron Linstead Image (c) District Noir Welcome to the Berlin Tempelhof Airport. Sitting smack in the middle of the city, one of Europe’s most iconic pre-World War…

The Abandoned Secret Cinema of the Sinai Desert

As if the auditorium had risen from the sands of the Sinai itself, an abandoned cinema lies in waiting for an audience that never came. A movie-worthy mirage, you’d be easily forgiven for not trusting your eyes upon stumbling such a surreal sight in the heat of the dusty Egyptian desert. This extraordinary outdoor cinema was…

He Spent 20 Years in the Desert Carving a Village of Dolls

Welcome to Possum Trot, California. Human population: 2. Doll population: 80. For decades, its human residents were Calvin Black and his wife Ruby, who moved out to the Mojave Desert in 1953, bought some land off of Ghost town rd. (an actual road that still exists), and proclaimed it “Possum Trot.” Over the course of…

Watch this Best-selling Author confront the Real Haunted Houses from his Book

We look at a lot of photographs of abandoned places here but it can be a real treat to find beautifully shot and narrated film footage to really take us on a journey inside these forgotten time capsules. Author Ransom Riggs wanted to make sure the setting for his haunting upcoming novel was true to life, so…

So in Dubai, the Number of Abandoned Luxury Cars Lying Around is Kind of a Problem

Some cities have a litter problem, some suffer from high crime rates and others might have a lack of affordable housing. And then you have Dubai, which for the last several years has been facing the unusual problem of high end sports cars being abandoned and left to gather thick layers of dust at airport…

The Abandoned Soviet Space Centre Complete with Two Unfinished Spacecrafts Inside

After five years searching the internet for the abandoned and forgotten, it takes a lot to shock me these days. But this. This, is something you don’t see everyday. Inside a remote rusting warehouse in the Kazakhstan desert that once housed the Soviet space shuttle program, Russian urbex photographer managed to gain access inside the hulking…

The Studio That Made Rock & Roll History Is Rotting Away on a Caribbean Island

The island of Montserrat in the West Indies became a Caribbean Pompeii when in 1995, the Soufrière Hills volcano woke up. The capital was buried in more than 12 metres of mud while the rest of the island was mostly wiped out except for a small unaffected area on the northern tip. Under a thin…

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