Abandoned Buildings

10 Instagram accounts for people who love abandoned places

This Halloween, embrace the haunted, eerie, and grotesque right on your phones with these spooktacular Instagram accounts documenting everything from crumbling rural farmhouses to decaying World War II fortresses.

Industrial warehouse converted into semi-communal housing for friends

If you’ve ever toyed with the idea of getting in on real estate with friends and building your dream home together, then this conversion project in Belgium might inspire you to give it more serious thought.

Scale Model of 13th-Century Basilica, Made of Wire Mesh, Rises in Italy

In Italy's Puglia region, artist Edoardo Tresoldi has devised a rather ingenious, simple scheme to revive architectural artifacts lost to the ravages of time: wire mesh, full-scale models.

How a Kentucky Town Saved Its Last, Best Midcentury Building

This Video Tour of an Abandoned Asylum Looks Straight Out of a Horror Film

Pablo Escobar's Island Mansion Is Now a Derelict, Beachy Ruin

Shockingly, the Buyer of Connecticut's Famous Ghost Town Vanished, and Now It's Back for $2.4M

Inside Cleveland's Abandoned Spanish Gothic Variety Theater

This NASCAR Racetrack is Now a Spooky Abandoned Wreck

Forget Ruin Porn: 5 Awesome Adapted Spaces That Used to Be Dead Malls

Long Island's Infamously Decrepit Kings Park Psychiatric Center in 53 Photos

An Illicit Look Inside Staten Island's Eerie, Abandoned Hospital

This Empty Mall Overtaken by Snow is So Strange and Beautiful

Exploring New York City's Irresistibly Eerie Abandoned Places

Follow a Drone Inside Scotland's Abandoned Brutalist Seminary

12 Lonely, Stunning Staircases Found in Abandoned Mansions

Take a Peek Inside a Heavily Plundered Naval Armory in Detroit

Thousands of Fish are Being Evicted From This Abandoned Mall

How 'Over-Retailed' America Lost its Midtier Shopping Malls

Goodnight Eerie Crescent Moon in Deserted Lithuanian Building

Why Johannesburg's Empty Buildings Are Splattered in Paint

Explore 25 of the Year's Most Atmospheric Abandoned Buildings

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Peek Inside a U.K. Swindler's Abandoned Underwater Ballroom

Here Are the Tallest Towers That Will Never Be Completed

Drone Footage Captures a City Abandoned After Chernobyl

Decades After Closing, 1930s L.A. Movie Palace Gets a Close-Up

In Scotland, Reviving a Long-Abandoned Brutalist Seminary

Capturing the Haunting Ruin of Industrial Ukraine, Post-USSR

Dutch Photographer Finds Beauty in Crumbling Industrial Sites

Abandoned Japanese Strip Club Really Misses the Glory Days

Now Visitors Can Tour the Abandoned Buildings of Portugal

Calling All Cult Leaders: Entire Connecticut Town is For Sale

Puerto Rican School Annex Used to be an Old Concrete Mess

Deserted Ellis Island Hospital Opens for First Time in 60 Years

This Brutalist Monolith Will Soon Be an Ebola Treatment Center

Tour the Gloomy Carcasses of Italy's '80s Discotheques

Abu Dhabi's 'Zero-Carbon City' is a Stalled-Out Ghost Town

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