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…

I Wish These Buildings Were Photoshopped, But They’re Not

There’s a cloning tool in Photoshop that would probably be great for creating the illusion of monstrously repetitive high-rises in a mythical megacity. Unfortunately, that tool was not used in this series of images captured by German photographer Michael Wolf in Hong Kong. “Architecture of Density” is a fascinating and haunting study of the tremendous density that…

A Real-Life Wes Anderson Character

Meet Ashrita Furman. If he isn’t a real-life inspiration for a Wes Anderson character, well I don’t know who is. He was a kid who could have gone to any Ivy league college and had any job he wanted, but instead, Ashrita chose to dedicate his life to breaking records. Oh, and to being happy. Watch…

13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. XLVIII)

1. The Most Beautiful Abandoned Railway Station in the World This is an abandoned railway station in Abkhazia, former Russian territory. It stays untouched since the collapse of USSR – the railway connection of Abkhazia and Russia stopped and railway station left out of demand so nature could take over the left-overs of Soviet architecture.…

Last Night a DJ saved my Life in a Secret Bomb Shelter

So this weekend, I partied in an abandoned bomb shelter. Thirty meters below the streets of Paris, in a 1500 square meter labyrinth built to withstand an atomic blast of the Cold War era, awaited a night to remember… Thundering down the boulevard in WWII jeeps and tanks, our military escorts arrive at the secret…

The Forgotten Giant Arrows that Guide you Across America

If you’re ever really lost on a road trip across America, and I’m talking really lost (let’s say the battery on your smartphone just died along with that compass application you downloaded for situations just like this), perhaps you might be lucky enough to find yourself next to one of the giant 70 foot concrete…

Ghost Signs: Lost & Found

I known I’m not the only one who searches the streets for signs pointing to the past, so let’s go ghost sign hunting with a selection from the Lost & Found: A Photography Sign book by Derek Stenborg. “Lost and Found is not only about finding lost sign treasure, but it is also about honoring…

The Man who Quit Society to Live in his Cabin

Meet Jack English, a 93-year-old legend who lives in a cabin isolated deep in the Ventana Wilderness. While on a hunting trip he learned that an old homestead in the Ventana Wilderness was being put up for auction by the estate of a childless heiress. He put a bid on the property and won. On…

Inside America’s Secret Atomic City

Most of the 75,000 residents of Oak Ridge, Tennessee had no idea they were processing uranium until the bombs dropped on Hiroshima in 1945. They had settled in the mysterious town, a “secret city”, with very little knowledge of what they would do there, other than the promise that their work was going to help…

Pimping America’s Bank Buildings

Once upon a time, the American bank building was the biggest, baddest, strongest and shiniest building on the block. But New york city-based photographer Michael Yahrenwald has captured them at a rather unflattering moment in time. On the hustle, the once powerful and authoritative buildings have settled for new tenants; mostly drugstores, fast food restaurants, liquor…