Rusted roller coasters frozen in time, ivy-covered hotels slowly being reclaimed by nature, and entire ghost towns left eerily silent — the world is full of eerie abandoned places. While many ...

Dominic Johnson-Hill, who envisioned the flock, was captivated by an account from his ornithologist neighbor about the Amur ...

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Abandoned places have a unique allure, often capturing the imagination with their eerie beauty and mysterious histories. In America, countless derelict sites appear almost cinematic, as if they’ve ...

Todd Stowell - Systems Architect of Smithsonian Magazine online. In a world that is full of overcrowding and overpopulation, it's hard to believe that there are places that, once populated, now sit ...

Walking through empty streets where laughter once filled the air feels deeply unsettling. These abandoned places tell stories of dreams that crumbled, disasters that changed everything, and ...

Photographer Kevin Lacy of Long Beach has a fascination with abandoned places. Growing up in Buffalo, New York, the obsession began with forgotten grain silos and dilapidated factories. “If I drove ...