American Green has created the chillest Westworld park yet – by turning an abandoned ghost town from the 19th century into a Marijuana Elysium. An abandoned town called Nipton, which sits in the middle of nowhere, in the state of…
Brothels, bars and mines- eerie photos of California’s ghost town show us what life was like in the 1800s
BY: SAMANTHA TAPP Once upon a time, a mining town stood strong on the Eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada mountains. The town – Bodie, California – was discovered in 1859, and for the next 50 years it was home…
Take a peek inside the technicolour castle that has been abandoned for more than 2 decades
BY: SAMANTHA TAPP When you hear the word “abandoned” do you picture a broken-down house on the side of a highway, long forgotten by a family that once inhabited it? Do you think about a decrepit building that is now…
Haunting images of Japan’s abandoned Disney-inspired theme park
BY: JESSICA BEUKER Welcome to Dreamland. The paint is chipped, the buildings partially gutted and the faces of once smiling characters are now cracked and haunting. Weeds creep in from all directions, wrapping around steel, while their roots sprout new…
You will simply fall in love with these beautifully uninhibited structures.
By: Lauren Ali ALL IMAGES BY JAMES KERWIN Abandoned places are known as the spot where high school kids drink their first beer or smoke their first joint. It’s where they mention that, supposedly, some person mysteriously died on the…
Inside the formerly abandoned “Wizard of Oz” theme park
BY: JESSICA BEUKER *All photo © Seph Lawless The Land of Oz theme park opened in 1970 and stayed open for a decade before closing the doors to the Emerald City. It’s opening saw over 20,000 visitors and guests “experiencing” the…
Florists turned an abandoned house into a beautiful living flower sanctuary
BY: JESSICA BEUKER Photos via FLOWER HOUSE In October of this year, florists from around the U.S. filled an entire abandoned house, wall to wall, ceiling to floor with fresh flowers and living plants. The weekend-long installation in Detroit attracted…
The island that looks like a scene from The Jungle Book has a dark and twisted past
BY: JESSICA BEUKER Ross Island, one of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, was once full of people who resided among the beautiful architecture juxtaposed against a tropical island setting. Only after World War II did the inhabitants flee, abandoning the…
These photos of abandoned buildings show the beauty in the dark and decaying
BY: DANIKA MOIR Photos by Rebecca Bathory In 2012, Rebecca Bathory found her passion for capturing decaying buildings on film. Travelling to over 20 countries, she went to over 300 abandoned buildings to capture the beauty that is found in…
Photos of this old abandoned mental institution give us a glimpse into what life was like for the patients
BY: DANIKA MOIR Photos by Will Ellis The Rockland State Hospital for the Insane, now known as the Rockland Psychiatric Centre, in Orangeville, New York once held thousands of patients at a time, reaching a population of almost 9,000 by…
Only one man has been back to Disney World’s secret abandoned island. This is what he saw.
BY: ALEXANDRIA LEE In the depths of Florida’s Walt Disney World, away from the screaming children and perpetually-grinning mascots, an abandoned section of the theme park shows a darker side of the Happiest Place on Earth. Located in the middle…
An abandoned island in China has been overtaken by a masterpiece of lush greenery
BY: ROB HOFFMAN Far off China’s eastern shore lies the once-thriving and now-abandoned community of Gouqi island, which has received its fair share of attention from the stunning photography of Jane Qing. Gouqi is clustered into a group of about…
These photos capture the beauty of abandoned places
BY: JESSICA BEUKER There is something very eerie yet alluring about an abandoned building. An old house that appears mostly unbroken on the outside — loose shingles, rotting wood and unkempt grass being its only giveaways — was once the…
An abandoned fishing village in China literally being swallowed by nature (Photos)
BY: JESSICA BEUKER Gouqi Island, located in the mouth of the Yangtze River, is one of the 18 inhabitable islands of the nearly 400 in the Shengsi archipelago. The islands are surrounded by vast blue sea, golden beaches, deep caves…