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Snooping Around Charles De Gaulle’s Abandoned Cruiser

You probably wouldn’t find any warships that personally escorted Winston Churchill across the seas rotting away in a shipyard somewhere. But in a French maritime graveyard, the warship that famously accommodated France’s most significant leader in recent history, has been left to severely decay as it waits in line to become navy target practice. Nicknamed…

Snapshots of a Soviet Ghost Town

Within a disputed territory on the Eastern coast of the Black Sea, spread across a valley often hidden in fog, lies the industrial town of Tkvarcheli, where the Soviet era still lives on like an evil spirit that haunts the streets. Photography by V Mulder Tkvarcheli was built in the early 1940’s Stalinist period to supply coal…

Abandoned in Antarctica: The 1970s Airplane Buried in Snow

No one was injured when the Lockheed Constellation ‘Pegasus’ crash landed onto the icy fields of Antarctica on October 8, 1970. The ill-fated flight had run into a storm and was forced to crash land in impossible weather conditions. Where the aircraft dramatically slid to a halt nearly 35 years ago is the exact same position…

The Electric Art Deco Glamour of a Power Plant Unplugged

Power plants and glamour aren’t two things you’d normally put together in a sentence, but hey, I guess that’s what I’m here for. Just look at that thing– combining great hulking industrial power with the glamour, elegance and delicacy of art deco design! We’re looking at the former control room of the Kelenföld Power Plant…

Art at War: Lost Frescoes of the Maginot Line

The Maginot Line, considered by many to be one of the greatest and most expensive military mistakes of all time; a name rarely spoken of today except to recall something that people hope will prove effective but instead, fails miserably. But here, inside the forgotten underground bunkers that line a defensive wall built by the French between…

This Abandoned NYC Tram Station is likely to become the World’s First Subterranean Park

You’ve most likely heard of, or even visited New York’s High Line, the elevated linear park recycled from the city’s former central railroad. But it’s time to get to know the “Low Line”… A dark and abandoned one-acre underground space with loose wires and dampness all around– what could there possibly be here to ‘get…

Night of the Living Dead: Revenge of the Abandoned

There’s only one way we celebrate Halloween on this website, and that’s by feeding our thirst for the abandoned and forgotten. But on the spookiest day of the year, there was only one explorer I could turn to– the master of abandoned night photography, Troy Paiva of Lost America. Troy has been at it for over…

Anywhere but Here: Deserted Banking Empire turned Skyscraper Slum

Featured in this week’s Homeland. It was built for stockbrokers and bankers in their thousand dollar suits to make million dollar deals, but for nearly two decades it has held the less impressive title of the world’s tallest squat. Welcome to the Centro Financiero Confinanzas, more commonly known as the Torre David (the Tower of David) in…

The Treachurous Train Bridge

This absurd yet also pretty awesome train crossing a river is in Georgia, on route 11, 14 km from Khertvisi to Akhalkalaki. The river below is also known for its strong currents, so definitely not the kind of water you want to be falling into. Pictures via Panoramio by Stettiner and Michálek Recycling at its…

The Green Hippie Beach Bus

Travel notes from Greece I found something neat-o today and thought I’d show you… Hidden in the trees behind an empty beach was this big old abandoned Mercedes bus. It looks like it was a bit of a hippie camping spot back in the day. Inside there’s not much to write home about, it was…

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