British children of the '90s may recall the character Mr. Blobby from the BBC series Noel's House Party. A couple of theme parks were constructed around Mr. Blobby, but they didn't operate for long. One, in Cricket St. T...

After housing the lepers of Greece for hundreds of years, the colony on the island of Chios is now a beautiful ruin for explorers.With a history dating back to the 14th century, this now-abandoned health institution was...

St Peter’s Seminary near Cardross, Scotland,...  ...gs like this are often negatively associated with urban decay, the seminary’s geometric, functiona...  ...60s. See plenty of pictures of the facility at Urban

Qingdao, China, may be more familiar to you as Tsingtao, as in Tsingtao beer. The city was a German colony for a couple of decades around the turn of the 20th century, and one of the first things they did was brew beer....

The public poorhouses that you read about in Dicke...  ...red souls who lived and died there. And thanks to urban explorers, you can take a look inside in a series...  ...take a look inside in a series of photographs at Urban

Quite a few subway stations underneath the City of...  ...nd read about the abandoned Paris Metro places at Urban

The compound known as Villa Sbertoli in Pistoia, Italy, has a creepy history. It was a home turned into an asylum by Professor Augustine Sbertoli in 1868, then was used as a political prison under the Fascist government,...

It's been 19 years since Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar was killed in a shootout with police. His property was seized by the government, and while some has been repurposed, many of Escobar's holdings are abandoned and...

It was decommissioned in 1995, but a step inside this Foxtrot B-39 (U 475) Russian submarine is enough to send you back to the Cold War. This Soviet submarine would spend weeks submerged with a full contingent of men cra...

The Kennecott Mine Camp was a booming Alaskan...  ...-via the Presurfer (Image credit: Flickr user urban archaeology)