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Elvis Presley’s Abandoned Tiki Paradise

The moment Elvis Presley floated down the lagoon at the Coco Palms Resort with Hawaiian flowers around his neck, serenading his new island bride in 1960s panavision technicolor, the hotel had solidified its place as one of the most desirable couples’ destinations on the planet. It would forever be the setting of the classic mid-century…

Graveyard of the Big Red Firetrucks

What little boy didn’t dream of driving a big red firetruck? Today’s find from the world of urban abandonment feels particularly tragic– and a little bit like uncovering the tomb of childhood dreams. Not to be a downer or anything… On my daily dive into Flickr, I came across an account which has album after album of incredible urbex photography. Frenchman Vincent…

47 Days to Leave their Village and Never Return

An eviction notice is never the kind of letter you want to receive, but in 1943, the villagers of Imber, on Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, all received the very same letter, regretting to inform them “that it is necessary to evacuate” their home to be “made available for training by December 17th”, giving them just 47 days to…

An 8th World Wonder without Tourists: Georgia’s Ancient Cave Cities

From the top of the ridge, a dusty wind blows south, sweeping down and across the endless desert-like plains in Azerbaijan. A narrow path cuts through the dried up shrubbery that shakes with each passing of stamping feet (recommended to scare away poisonous snakes). A rusty railing cuts down the already narrow path marking the border between Georgia…

Oh, Just an Abandoned Hobbit Castle Built for Sheep

Having spent seven years surfing what I’ve come to call the “underweb”, I’ll tell ya, it takes some pretty weird stuff to surprise me these days. But this? This restores my faith in the internet’s ability to never run out of obscure things to show me. Behold “Colin’s Barn”, an eccentric hobbit-like superstructure built in the 1980s by…

Tokyo’s Forgotten Botanical Gardens look like Jurassic Park

This photograph above has been floating around on my To-Find-Out-What-The-Heck-This-Place-is List for a while. It’s one of those semi-viral images that doesn’t have any accurate information attached; not the photographer’s name nor the exact location it was taken (trust me, I reverse-searched this image for the owner until the end of Google– no luck). But…

Inside an English Pub Buried for a Quarter of a Century

Our favourite local hangouts sometimes come and go sadly, you just have to be hopeful that something better might come along in its place. But when one local pub in the English university town of Leicester closed up shop, it didn’t exactly find new management and change up the menu or décor. When The Green Man pub went out of business,…

The Italian Hotel built inside Abandoned Medieval Grottos

Okay come with me, we’re going to explore every inch of this hotel built inside the deserted grottos of an Italian mountain village from the Middle Ages. The cliffs of the Gravina River Valley in Matera Italy are believed to be the site of the first human settlements in the country. So let’s begin our…

The Time Capsule Ghost Town waiting to be brought Back to Life

On the north coast of British Columbia in Canada, where the Alaskan border is closer than the nearest town, lies a mysterious hidden place, accessible only by a long arduous gravel road behind a locked gate. Ninety-four homes, two hundred apartments, a hospital, shopping mall, Town & Country restaurant, movie theatre, sports centre, a Royal…

The Ghostly Ruins of an Emperor’s Racetrack

I am about to share my experience in one of the most dangerous yet amazing places I have visited. Like many other exciting things in life, this one is not so easy to get to. It took me some time to plan carefully before I approached the old Negishi racetrack Grandstand… This abandoned historical building…

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