Doom & Dust: 10 Creepy Crypts, Catacombs and Charnel Houses
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(Image: Junkyardsparkle, public domain) The world is littered with abandoned zoos and decaying wildlife parks. Haunting shadows of the past, reasons for their decline are varied with some having run...
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(Image: Google Street View) They enthrall young and old alike with their exhibits, oddities and eccentricities. But what happens to museums when people stop coming? Many fall victim to budget cuts,...
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Since our founding, Urban Ghosts has sought to document the world’s most beautiful, historic and compelling abandoned building and places, vehicles and vessels, not to mention a multitude of offbeat...
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(Image: Jason DeCaires Taylor; the underwater sculpture Silent Evolution) Carefully constructed and lovingly designed, but why are these elaborate and beautiful sculptures submerged? Whether they have...
View ArticleDoom & Dust: 10 Creepy Crypts, Catacombs and Charnel Houses
(Image: Hassan C, cc-nd-4.0) The way that we approach death and the unknown as a society changes rapidly according to technology, poverty, political stability and religious belief. Nowhere is this...
View Article10 Abandoned Churches Destroyed by War
(Image: Orderinchaos, cc-sa-3.0) When war devastates a community, often the most lasting ruins are churches and cathedrals. Houses are demolished or rebuilt in order to provide shelter, but places of...
View Article10 Creepy Ghost Towns and Modern Ruins of the United States
(Image: Bill, cc-4.0) Creepy ruins are not just the dominion of ancient civilisations. War, environmental disasters, industrial accidents and economic downturn are all reasons that townships can be...
View Article7 Eerie Abandoned Zoos and Wildlife Parks
(Image: Junkyardsparkle. Abandoned zoos and wildlife parks) The world is littered with abandoned zoos and decaying wildlife parks. Haunting shadows of the past, reasons for their decline are varied...
View Article10 of the World’s Creepiest Abandoned Museums
(Image: Google Street View) They enthrall young and old alike with their exhibits, oddities and eccentricities. But what happens to museums when people stop coming? Many fall victim to budget cuts,...
View ArticleNazi Architecture: 10 Unsettling Relics of the Third Reich
(Image: Rob Sheridan, cc-nc-sa-4.0) While the emotional and cultural toll that Hitler’s Third Reich took on Europe and indeed the entire globe is still being felt today, this is not the only legacy...
View Article10 Creepy Abandoned Buildings & Places: From Haunting Mansions to Forgotten...
Since our founding, Urban Ghosts has sought to document the world’s most beautiful, historic and compelling abandoned building and places, vehicles and vessels, not to mention a multitude of offbeat...
View Article10 Breathtaking Underwater Statues and Sculptures
(Image: Jason DeCaires Taylor; the underwater sculpture Silent Evolution) Carefully constructed and lovingly designed, but why are these elaborate and beautiful sculptures submerged? Whether they have...
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