Meltdown: 10 Semi-Sweet Abandoned Chocolate Factories
Chocolate factories were once fragrant masters of their delicious domains but many have fallen victim to high costs, cocoa shortages and changing market tastes. Read More at Web Urbanist…
View ArticleThe Bucks Stop Here: 9 Closed & Abandoned Dollar Stores
Dollar Stores may be the new face of retail in post-9/11 America but when they close or are abandoned, that’s change we don’t want to believe in. Read More at Web Urbanist…
View ArticleBoom To Bust: 10 Abandoned Fireworks Stores & Stands
Fireworks sales are “fly by night” on several levels, and when boom turns to bust the colors fade faster than the aftermath of a bombshell in a moon-washed Read More at Web Urbanist…
View ArticleBig Miss Steak: 10 Eerie Abandoned Meat Packing Plants
As the disconnect between the meat we eat and the places it’s processed grows, so does the number of urban and suburban abandoned meat packing plants. Read More at Web Urbanist…
View ArticleThe Desertron: World’s Largest Super Collider Lies Abandoned
Designed to break records held by the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, the Superconducting Super Collider built (and abandoned) in Texas features fourteen miles Read More at Web Urbanist…
View ArticleAll Washed Up: 11 Abandoned Coin Laundries & Laundromats
Abandoned coin laundries, laundromats and washaterias (for you Texans) have proliferated as utility costs rise and prices for domestic machines fall. Read More at Web Urbanist…
View ArticleEmpty Chambers: 10 Closed & Abandoned Gun Stores & Shops
If your business involves getting fired, going off half cocked or triggering bankruptcy, you just might be one of these 10 closed and/or abandoned gun shops. Read More at Web Urbanist…
View ArticlePunched Cards: 12 Closed & Abandoned Bingo Halls
These 12 closed and abandoned bingo halls couldn’t compete with an increasing variety of online gaming options and the gradual spread of gambling casinos. Read More at Web Urbanist…
View ArticleLost Soles: 10 Abandoned & De-Feeted Shoe Repair Stores
Abandoned shoe repair stores, once ubiquitous elements of the urban tapestry, epitomize small Mom & Pop stores that “progress” has kicked to the curb. Read More at Web Urbanist…
View ArticleLooking Grave: 12 Spooky & Scary Abandoned Funeral Homes
Funeral homes are mortal, much like their clients. When funeral homes are abandoned, however, they’re left to decay, deteriorate and decompose in public. Read More at Web Urbanist…
View ArticleBlocked Out: 10 Closed & Abandoned Hat-Making Factories
The golden age of hats – what George Costanza called a “bald paradise” – has long passed and along with it, so have hundreds of huge hat-making factories. Read More at Web Urbanist…
View ArticleDeserted Space: Photos Document NASA’s Abandoned Launch Pads
The race for space has shifted gears in recent years with the rise of private programs, leaving a series of amazing space-related graveyards around the United Read More at Web Urbanist…
View ArticleWax Off: 12 More Abandoned & Closed Car Washes
Abandoned car washes are oddly abundant – you’d think they invented the self-cleaning car! Here are 12 more car-less washes left high, dry and brushed-off. Read More at Web Urbanist…
View ArticleOutcast Checkpoints: 8 Abandoned Border Crossings of Europe
Nearly two decades ago even short trips across Europe could involve multiple stations, guards, lines and stamps, but the open-border policies in effect today Read More at Web Urbanist…
View ArticleRacked: 10 Abandoned Pool, Billiard & Snooker Parlors
No doubt these abandoned billiard parlors & snooker halls are in trouble… trouble with a capital “T” and that rhymes with “P” and that stands for pool! Read More at Web Urbanist…
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