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Abandoned Caboose Near Rhyolite Ghost Town, Death Valley

October 24th, 2011, Featured, Urban Exploration, by Tom

This abandoned Union Pacific caboose near Rhyolite ghost town in Death Valley is one of many to be found across America’s Old West. But urban explorers should be mindful of rattlesnakes while taking a closer look.

America’s Most Haunted: The Whaley House, San Diego

October 5th, 2011, Featured, by Tom

The Whaley House in Old Town San Diego is reportedly haunted by the ghosts of several generations of the same family, including Thomas Whaley, a California settler who built the house for his wife and children.

Former Portuguese Theatre Lies Abandoned in Namibe, Angola

October 3rd, 2011, Architecture, Featured, Urban Exploration, by Tom

This somewhat retro-futuristic theatre in the coastal desert city of Namibe, southwestern Angola, is one of many buildings abandoned in the wake of Portuguese colonial decline in the region.

Vienna’s Drowned Rest Anonymously in the Cemetery of the Nameless

September 28th, 2011, Featured, Travel, by Tom

For all Vienna’s grand and historic burial grounds, home to the likes of Beethoven and Strauss, the Cemetery of the Nameless remains one of the Austrian capital’s most poignant and mysterious.

Rare Diesel Shunter Hidden Behind Kelham Island Museum, Sheffield

September 28th, 2011, Featured, Urban Exploration, by Tom

This neglected yet rare diesel shunter stands out of sight behind the Kelham Island Museum in Sheffield, where it has been stored for the last several decades after its service life ended at Templeborough Steelworks.

Ozlem: a Surprisingly Colourful Shipwreck

September 26th, 2011, Featured, Urban Exploration, by Tom

There’s something strangely appealing and slightly haunting about shipwrecks. For what are arguably rusting environmentally-unfriendly hulks, some – like the wreck of Ozlem along the Black Sea coast – are surprisingly colourful.

Miniature Underground City Art by EVOL (Now Removed)

September 21st, 2011, Art, Featured, by Tom

This shortlived miniature city was the work of Berlin-based artist EVOL, whose intriguing urban art installations have a habit of appearing where you’d least expect them, including the walls of an abandoned slaughterhouse.

Exploring the Train Graveyard at Healey Mills, West Yorkshire

September 18th, 2011, Featured, Urban Exploration, by Tom

The Healey Mills Traction Maintenance Depot near Wakefield, England, officially closed in 1987, but an impressive assortment of abandoned trains and railway buildings continue to haunt the forgotten site.

Glass House Made from Recycled Windows in Copenhagen’s Freetown Christiania Commune

September 17th, 2011, Architecture, Featured, by Tom

The Glass House in Copenhagen’s Freetown Christiania is a unique piece of recycled architecture described as an example of modern “architecture without architects”.

Solar Bottle Bulb: Discarded Bottles Help Provide Light to Millions of Poor Homes

September 17th, 2011, Architecture, Featured, by Tom

The MyShelter Foundation is using water bottles, known as “solar bottle bulbs”, to provide light to a million poor homes in Manila by 2012 though the Isang Litrong Liwanag project.

Light Graffiti Art in an Abandoned Wine Cellar – Complete with Vintage Wine

September 15th, 2011, Art, Featured, Urban Exploration, by Tom

The legality of urban exploration may be questionable but there’s nothing unlawful about creative light art, or light graffiti. This colourful form of expression adopts cameras to capture ephemeral images that leave no residue in their wake.

Leaning Church in Braddeck, Nova Scotia – Optical Illusion?

September 5th, 2011, Architecture, Featured, by Tom

This old Anglican church, established 1883 in the village of Braddeck, Cape Breton Island, is one of several places of worship that have served the community over the years, but appears to be leaning towards the camera. Optical illusion, or sinking foundations?