This canceled nuclear power station features two partially completed cooling towers, as well as two reactor buildings one of which is outstanding due to its near-complete state.
Read MoreThe mystery behind this house in the middle of the road.
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A few houses prominently stand in the way of the completion of a highway interchange. As countryside space is consumed by urban development, encounters with opposition of some form is unavoidable. The nail house has become an emblematic characteristic, intricately connected to rapid urbanization.
Read MoreAn Intro to Factory Town Demolitions in Under 3 Minutes
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These photos capture the brief mid-demolition period of a factory town, which itself is a product of a quickly changing man-altered urban-landscape, dismantled to make way for yet another redefining of that landscape.
Read MoreScenes of nighttime container loading that you have never seen before.
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Views of day and night container loading on a massive container ship via ship-to-shore gantry cranes at the port of Yantian.
Read MoreThe 5 Best Pictures of Beitang Container City on the Internet
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Surrealistic photos of a disused shipping container city part of Beitang Residential District in the Binhai New Area.
Read MoreThe No.3 Blast Furnace at Shougang Iron and Steel, 2011.
A Fascinating In-Depth Look at Shougang Iron and Steel Before the Olympics
A decade before Shougang Iron and Steel hosted Olympic sporting events, it was an immense decaying complex of blast furnaces, coke ovens, pipes and coal conveyors. While the 2008 Olympics brought the end of the manufacturing operations of Shougang Steel, the 2022 Olympics catalyzed its rebirth.
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13 Moody Refinery Pictures That Will Change Your Mind About Petroleum Processing
Local authorities identified this petroleum refinery as a major cause of poor air quality in the region. In its later years it was fined for environmental violations and slated for relocation
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Resort developers don’t know about this one weird trick to abort construction projects
Directly on a beach in Vietnam is an entire village presumably made up of Rông Houses manifested from the Central Highland of the country. Upon closer scrutiny, these are actually the villas of a failed beach resort.
Read More15 claustrophobic images from the most densely populated city
Macau is a real cyberpunk city due to it’s population density.
Read More7 Incredible Photos of This Landlocked Pirate Ship: Number 3 Will Shock You
Far inland in South Korea, this ship called the Phoenix was destroyed by fire but never rose again from the ashes.
Read MoreTwo of the larger water slide attractions
You won’t believe what happened when this Chinese water park didn’t pay it's migrant workers.
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Business was operating normally toward the end of summer when a group of ruffians barged into the park, demanding money. They kicked out the staff and blocked the entrances. Staff called the police, but they refused to intervene. What was the story behind this abandoned water park?
Read MoreWhy is this abandoned school so popular in Kpop music videos?
This school never opened, but why are there so many books inside, and why does it show up in so many K-pop videos?
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Vietnam's abandoned water park is so famous it has it’s own hostel
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At one time Thuy Tien Lake was a bit more mysterious and sensational. Accounts claimed the only way to find the park was by directions passed from one backpacker to another and tales spoke of starving crocodiles left to fend for themselves inside the park’s aquarium. Today the crumbling water park is listed clearly on Google Maps.
Read MoreThe Wild Great Wall
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The most authentic sections of the Great Wall stand slowly decaying since their original construction hundreds of years before. These are far off the tourist routes and not serviced by roads, cable cars or tourist infrastructure.
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How "Cancel Culture" Ruined this Steel Mill Cafeteria
As major Chinese urban centers develop and environmental protection standards improve, tolerance for polluting industries. After 60 years of operation, this cafeteria was one of the few structures in the sprawling factory compound that had not yet been razed.
Read MoreHD Scans of Okpo Land's Promotional Brochure
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Okpo Land’s charming promotional brochure is a small element of fascination from the park. It provides the only glimpse as to what the theme park was like in the 1990’s.
Read MoreOkpo Land: The Surprising Truth Behind the Mystery
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There are no photos from this theme park when it was open, and images seen today show rides with eerie cartoon faces. Okpo Land’s lore tells of deaths of children on rides at the park. But did this shoddy park really have homicidal amusement rides? And why is this scrappy park so famous?
Read MoreHow This Abandoned Mansion Avoided Demolition in Portland
This stately Neoclassical house in the middle of Portland was not only vacant but abandoned. Inside, the house was clean and well-preserved with little damage…
Read MoreInside the base of the cooling tower.
Alien Carapace
On first look, the collection of structures assembled at a few hundred meters from a creek inlet are mystifying. A massive, reinforced concrete wall would seem to be a single section of the ramparts to some kind of futuristic castle...
Read MoreThe Jungle in Concrete
Canceled before it could reach 50% completion, this nuclear power plant features an unfinished reactor containment vessel. The turbine hall is like a jump puzzle setpiece in a video game with openings in the floor leading to dark flooded cellars of imperceptible depth. With more than 30 years of unconstrained intrusion, nature has completely infiltrated all the structures chambers and alcoves.
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