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In 2004, sculptor David Adickes partnered with a Virginia landowner named Everette “Haley” Newman to create what they hoped would be a national landmark. Today, the broken busts of Presidents Park are an eerie sight.
This wartime photograph from the Library of Congress shows a wretched lineup of derelict Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighters destroyed during the North Africa Campaign.
Photographer Anna S, from Ostfildern in southern Germany, documented this beautiful abandoned church back in April 2015.
It featured on the BBC television show Top Gear and lent its track to a range of NASCAR-related video games. But North Wilkesboro Speedway in North Carolina has been abandoned since 2011.
Yellowstone, the Great Smoky Mountains, Mt. Rainier, Yosemite; these names are iconic. But what about America’s other National Parks? The obscure, the small, the hard-to-get to, and forgotten? Explore a selection of them here.
One video that’s been doing the rounds over the past week is this amazing recreation of Vincent van Gogh’s ‘Starry Night’, an oil on canvas which depicts an idealised view from the window of his asylum at Saint-Rémy-de-Provence in southern France.
This ideo by Abandoned Scotland shows the ruins of Hartwood Hospital in North Lanarkshire from above.
Resting inverted on the seabed near the tiny Mediterranean island of Planier, southwest of Marseilles, its narrow, splayed undercarriage legs clearly reveal this wrecked World War Two aircraft to be a Messerschmitt Bf 109.
In 2010, Durham’s old County Hospital closed its wards for good after 157 years of operation. As plans for its future are negotiated, an eerie silence has blanketed much of the former hospital and its eerie mortuary.
Once a proud industrial powerhouse of Pennsylvanian steel production, the abandoned Fort Pitt Steel Casting Co. factory in McKeesport, PA is a sad reminder of the area’s declining industrial heritage.
Across the ancient world, a plethora of languages and writing systems remain undeciphered. We’ve lost their thoughts, their rituals and their words – but we haven’t given up yet. Here are 10 of compelling examples.
During the Cold War it was known as the Soviet Union’s answer to America’s secretive Edwards AFB. Today, Zhukovsky Airfield remains an important aviation test and evaluation centre outside Moscow, and is also the resting place of many decommissioned jets.
Of all the megalithic sites set amid the breathtaking scenery of southern Ireland, few are more visited than Drombeg stone circle outside Glandore, in County Cork.
Opened in 1910 and closed in 1990, Romania’s abandoned Constanta Casino is a breathtaking piece of Art Nouveau architecture overlooking the Black Sea.
Until 1992, visitors to RAF Boulmer were met with the sight of an English Electric Lightning F3 interceptor standing guard by the entrance. For the past two decades, Lightning XP745 has been in indoor storage, as these photographs reveal.
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