Extremadura has the most time-frozen urbex in Spain — Granadilla, the walled medieval town on the peninsula formed by the Gabriel y Galán reservoir, emptied in 1964 when the Franco...
The Basque Country has the most politically charged urbex in Spain — the Lemoiz nuclear plant that never produced a kilowatt of electricity because ETA killed its engineers and the...
Valladolid has the most melancholic urbex in Castilla — the city that was the capital of the Spanish Empire when Charles I established his court here and that preserves in...
La Rioja has the most mysterious urbex in depopulated Spain — Turruncún in the Préjano mountains, an abandoned mining village since 1975 where the church holds human remains beneath the...
Cádiz has the most Atlantic urbex in Spain — a province where the Strait wind erodes abandoned buildings at a speed no Mediterranean abandonment can match, where the almadraba fishing...
Córdoba has the most unexpected urbex in Andalusia — a province where the Sierra Morena hides 19th-century manor farmhouses with chapels and abandoned oil presses among the holm oaks, foundries...
Navarra has the most politically charged urbex in Spain — the San Cristóbal Fort on Mount Ezkaba above Pamplona, where on May 22, 1938, the largest prison escape in Spanish...
The Victorian era built more psychiatric institutions than any other period in British history — a network of county asylums, borough lunatic hospitals and specialist institutions whose ambition was to...
The British grand hotel was a Victorian and Edwardian invention of extraordinary ambition — palatial sea-front buildings, Highland hydros, spa hotels and resort pavilions whose construction expressed the full confidence...
Britain invented the railway — and Britain has abandoned more railway infrastructure than any other country on earth. The Beeching cuts of 1963-1965 closed 5,000 miles of track and 2,000...
Britain's Victorian hospital network was the most ambitious public health infrastructure programme in history — general infirmaries, fever hospitals, tuberculosis sanatoria, cottage hospitals and specialist institutions whose red-brick ward architecture...
The British Isles contains the greatest concentration of ruined medieval ecclesiastical architecture in the world — a consequence of Henry VIII's dissolution of the monasteries between 1536 and 1541, the...
