modern ruins

In the woods of Indonesia’s Magelang Regency sits one of the modern world’s more unusual houses of worship: Gereja…

Certain parts of the U.S. have teetered into decline. Places designed to bring joy are now rotting quietly, wrapped…

A single abandoned building can be a gloomy thing, an apocalyptic scene in miniature. But what about when an entire…

We love photographs of grand, abandoned buildings, where we can see what happens when once-luxurious digs fall into…

There's something kind of awe-inspiring about standing in a huge cave, and seeing the vaulted ceilings rise up over…

The McBarge was a floating McDonald's restaurant constructed for Expo '86 in Vancouver, but after the expositions…

You don't have to bring your own flashlight to take a tour of the cities that humans have built underground. Just…

There is a hidden industrial gem north of Lake Balaton, near Balatonfűzfő, Hungary, and when I say hidden I mean it.…

Kingston Penitentiary closed its doors in September 2013, ending a legacy of 178 years of famously harsh treatment.…

Many abandoned buildings take on a slightly creepy aspect just because of their decay. But then there are places…

No, it's not the setting for a new horror movie, though that's not a bad idea, considering we're talking 75,000…

What if everyone on Earth suddenly vanished, leaving behind pristine cities devoid of human life? These astonishing…

Some of the buildings that tower high over city skylines are actually modern ruins in the making, their vast…

Today, the city of Pripyat, Ukraine, is a ghost town, abandoned and overgrown in the wake of the disaster at the…

You can build to last, but it won't help if the waters come to cover up all of your amazing houses and town…

You've seen where airplanes go to die, but what happens to the airports we abandon? They slowly fall to pieces, like…

No, these aren't natural disasters, craters from a huge meteorite, or the burrows of some massive worm from space.…

Want to know what it would be like to live in a subterranean world? Visit these incredible old mines and see how the…

You've entered an enormous building scoured by ocean tides and haunted by hulking machines, slowly rusting away. It…

These malls were once bustling hubs of commerce, but after a few years of neglect, they went from Mallrats to Dawn…