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The Congo Airport Playground

Some people’s instagram accounts are full of cat pictures or fashion selfies or cupcakes. And then there’s the instagram account of photographer Michael Christopher Brown, who hangs out with Congolese kids in airplane graveyards. From the looks of his instagram photos, Michael hasn’t been back home to Brooklyn in years. His profile is a continuously stunning feed of raw and intimate glimpses into a world…

Discovering Dead Malls & Motels on Youtube

I‘m always looking for snackable video content that I can watch while I eat lunch at my desk, and I’ve just found something to keep me going for many meals of sweet solitude ahead. I’d like to think I haven’t been living under a rock, especially when it comes to things on the internet, but how did I…

The Abandoned Ruins given New Life

I can’t help but notice a rapidly growing trend happening in architecture that involves giving new life to what may look like the most hopeless of ruins. Ever since I showed you the modern Scottish home built within a 150 year-old abandoned farmhouse, I’ve been hugely intrigued by these modern interventions of age old crumbling…

The Neglected Ghost Town of Italy’s Dolce Vita Drinking Water

San Pellegrino is an icon of the Italian lifestyle, the most stylish brand of sparkling water you can order anywhere in the world, synonymous with luxury, fine dining, jet set summers in Europe and “la Dolce Vita”. One of its first admirers was allegedly Leonardo da Vinci, who visited the source in Lombardy to sample the…

Crumbling Communist Murals the Soviets Left Behind

In the early nineties, well after the destruction of the Berlin Wall, did you know there were still over 300,000 Soviet soldiers in Eastern Germany? In 1991, there were still 4,200 Russian tanks, 690 aircrafts, 180 rocket systems and over 200,000 civil employees and relatives of officers, among them about 900,000 children. Until the final withdrawal…

Trend Alert: Derelict classic Cars!

Watch this amazing short film about a garage in Los Angeles that takes abandoned classic cars and restores what’s under the bonnet while keeping their uniquely rustic exteriors nature has given them over time. It takes a minute to get used to the idea of driving a car with a brand new engine albeit a…

Place your Bets on the Fate of this Crumbling Casino

It was the crown jewel of Romania’s “Monte Carlo”; a pearl watching over the Black Sea where royalty and the elite flocked from all over Europe and wealthy travellers spoke of it around the world, recounting stories of their extravagant gambling escapades at the Casino Constanta. It’s unmistakable art deco shapes and lines are still in tact, and from…

The Most Beautiful Car Race that Ever Was

It was the kind of race where if a car broke down, the driver would have been invited inside by locals for spaghetti. The track, littered with horseshoe nails, meandered through the tiny twisting streets of quaint Sicilian mountain towns while villagers watched Ferraris speed by at 100 miles an hour, perilously close to their doorsteps. The Targo Florio…

River Rockets of the Soviet Space Age

It looks like a prop from Star Wars doesn’t it? Trust the Soviets to have the coolest abandoned stuff lying around. During the cold war period and into the 1980s, this rusting behemoth was once part of a fleet of vessels which rose out of the water at high speed and were considered the heroes of the Russian riverways.…

No Bookshelf is Complete without the Bible of American Abandonment

If you own one book on abandoned photography, it should be this one. I’ve been following Eric Hulubow’s work over the years, he was one of the first urbex photographers I discovered who spurred my obsession with forgotten places and took me further down the rabbit hole. His book, Abandoned – America’s Vanishing Landscape is a comprehensive…

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