The remains of the abandoned Beelitz Sanatorium is a combination of grand architecture and eerie medical artifacts. Built in 1898 in Berlin, it served victims of tuberculosis until it was converted to aid the wounded of...

British children of the '90s may recall the charac...  ...m, posted photographs of the site taken during an urbex expedition. Link -via Everlasting Blort

Abandoned communities exist all over the world, and the reasons they are empty are quite varied. Some were abandoned because of natural disasters, others because of war, disease, or economic decline. Butugichag, Russia,...

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, was used as a college only from 1966 to 1980. It was repurposed as a drug rehab clinic, which closed in 1987. Since then, it's been left empty and abandoned.Designed by...

Back in the 1970s, someone got the great idea to build a four-story igloo as a hotel about 20 miles from Cantwell, Alaska, on the highway between Fairbanks and Anchorage. It was never finished, due to problems with build...

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 Dickens novels are gone, having been replaced with welfare hotels, housing projects, and homeless shelters. The Knox County Poorhouse in Ohio was once such an institution.Cons...

Quite a few subway stations underneath the City of...  ...Metro stations through the photographs of French urbex photographers. See more pictures, and read about...

In the real world, Shell Cottage was a temporary film set erected in the sand dunes of Freshwater West in Pembrokeshire, Wales. In another world, it was something special.Described in the book as a “lonely and beau...