Mexico was the largest silver-producing nation in history — responsible for approximately one-third of all silver mined globally between 1500 and 1900. That extraordinary extraction left a physical legacy of...
Mexico has more ghost towns per square kilometre than almost any country in the Americas — a direct consequence of the silver-mining economy that built entire cities in remote desert...
Mexico attracts explorers from across the world — drawn by Real de Catorce, the Palacio de Lecumberri, Hacienda Yaxcopoil and dozens of derelict silver-mining towns in the northern sierras. But...
The Amazon is the largest and most remote urbex territory on earth — a rainforest the size of Western Europe where the ruins of Henry Ford's American utopia decay on...
Brazil attracts explorers from across the world — drawn by Fordlândia, Igatu, the São Paulo factory belt and Vila Maria Zélia. Brazilian law on unauthorised property access operates through the...
Minas Gerais is the most historically layered state in Brazil — the heartland of the 18th-century gold rush that financed Portugal's empire, the birthplace of Brazilian baroque and the state...
Argentina attracts explorers from across the world — drawn by Villa Epecuén, the Salamone pampas circuit, the Ushuaia prison and the ESMA. Argentine law on unauthorised property access is stricter...
Argentina's estancias represent one of the most architecturally ambitious rural building programmes in the history of the Americas — ranch estates built from the 1820s onwards by the Buenos Aires...
Córdoba is Argentina's second city and one of its oldest — founded by Spanish colonisers in 1573, home to the first university in what would become Argentina and shaped by...
Trabzon — ancient Trebizond, once the capital of the final Byzantine successor state and a trading crossroads of the Black Sea — carries one of the densest concentrations of abandoned...
Turkey has one of the richest castle landscapes in the world — over 3,000 fortifications spanning Roman, Byzantine, Seljuk, Crusader, Armenian, Karamanid and Ottoman military construction, layered across a country...
Turkey's abandoned village landscape is unlike any other in Europe — shaped primarily by a single catastrophic political event: the 1923 Lausanne Convention population exchange that removed approximately 1.5 million...
