Japan has ghost towns unlike any other country — from an entire island abandoned overnight when a coal mine closed in 1974, to a mountain mining community whose 3,000 residents...
Japan's abandoned theme park landscape is the most extraordinary in the world — a country that built dozens of concept amusement parks during the bubble economy of the 1980s and...
Japan's abandoned hotel landscape is the direct consequence of two seismic economic events: the bubble economy collapse of 1991, which froze hundreds of resort developments mid-construction, and the rise of...
Haikyo (廃墟) — the Japanese word for ruins — is more than a translation of "abandoned places." It describes a specific national aesthetic culture built around the wabi-sabi appreciation of...
Japan draws haikyo explorers from across the world — Hashima Island, Nichitsu ghost town, Matsuo Mine and hundreds of time-capsule hotels, schools and hospitals frozen across the country's demographic collapse....
Japan is unlike any other urbex destination on earth — a country where the specific word haikyo (廃墟, "ruins") reflects a national aesthetic relationship with abandonment rooted in the Buddhist...
Japan is the world's premier haikyo destination — a country where the specific combination of post-war economic growth, brutal demographic decline, industrial legacy and the Buddhist-inflected aesthetic of wabi-sabi (beauty...
Japan has the richest haikyo (廃墟 — "ruins") culture in the world — a country where the specific combination of rapid post-war economic growth, brutal demographic decline (akiya — empty...
Iceland's strategic position between North America and Europe made it one of the most militarised small nations on earth during WWII and the Cold War — despite having no army...
Iceland's ghost town landscape is produced by mechanisms specific to a remote North Atlantic island: herring stock collapse emptying factory villages overnight in the 1950s–60s, agricultural abandonment as Iceland's rural...
Iceland draws explorers from across Europe — the Garðar BA 64 beached ship, the Djúpavík herring factory, the Selatangar lava field ruins and the Keflavík NATO base. Icelandic law on...
Ibiza es mundialmente conocida por sus clubs, sus calas y su turismo de lujo — pero la otra cara de la isla pitiusa esconde uno de los patrimonios de derelicción...
