On crowded city streets, builders have long taken... ...ights, or half way up modern adjoining structures. Urbex photographer Luke J. Spencer documents ghost buil...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/08/18/The-Haunting-Magic-of-Ghost-Buildings/(Image credit: Flickr user Phillip)They were once grand halls of a secret society, many with an opulent architecture that befitted a club descended from a stonemason's guild. After peaking in 1959, the number of Freemaso...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/03/30/Freemasonry-Forsaken-16-Abandoned-Masonic-Lodges-Temples-Halls/If you were to visit France, you'd certainly want to see the hot spots, but you might also want to take in lesser-known but fascinating abandoned places. These are buildings no longer in use, a combination of beautiful a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/01/08/A-Gloriously-Haunting-Tour-of-Abandoned-France/The industrial metropolis of Glasgow, Scotland, has extra-large abandoned places. These include factories, stadiums, hospitals, railway stations, stockyards, pubs, and even a zoo. The institution pictured here is the int...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/03/23/Abandoned-Glasgow-10-Derelict-Places-in-Scotlands-Largest-City/Nevada is known for Las Vegas, but there’s so much more to explore in the state. Its wide-open spaces were a big part of Wild West history. Boomtowns sprung up around the silver mining industry and then died. Other...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/03/16/10-Ghost-Towns-Brothels-and-Derelict-Places-in-Nevada/(Image credit: Flickr user simon sugden)In 1901, the town of Keighley, West Yorkshire, UK, built an entirely new shopping district over top of a street of abandoned shops. The street level was adjusted, and new shop owne...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/01/04/The-Underground-Street-Buried-Beneath-Keighleys-Royal-Arcade/We’ve seen plenty of abandoned places around the world, many of them beautiful but sad in their decay. The virtual world also has abandoned places. Even when the worlds of video games aren’t connected to ea...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/12/09/10-Abandoned-Places-Found-in-Popular-Video-Games/Ghost trains in Britain are not supernatural -they’re real! It’s a term used for trains that serve a vestige of a line that should be closed. They may run once a week or even less often, aren’t advertis...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/10/08/10-Haunting-Forgotten-Stations-Served-by-Britains-Ghost-Trains/An urban explorer named AD found and photographed... ...ed to encourage others to trespass. It’s an urbex ethic. However, we are treated to a collection of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/06/02/Tour-a-Creepy-Abandoned-Wax-Museum/A couple of weeks ago, we learned about cemeteries that go out of business. That’s what happened to New Jersey’s oldest cemetery, the Historic Jersey City and Harsimus Cemetery, founded in 1831. It had been f...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/04/28/The-New-Jersey-Cemetery-Trapped-in-the-19th-Century/