Buenos Aires is a city that accumulated extraordinary wealth in the Belle Époque, poured it into palaces, theatres and civic monuments — then watched successive economic crises strip away the...

Argentina is one of the most underexplored urbex destinations in the world — a country the size of Western Europe where a spa resort submerged for 25 years has re-emerged...

Brazil's ghost towns tell the story of the country's great economic cycles — the rubber boom that built magnificent cities in the Amazon and then collapsed, the diamond rush that...

Salvador da Bahia was the first capital of Brazil — founded by Portuguese colonizers in 1549, it was the wealthiest city in the Americas for much of the colonial period,...

The most complete urbex map of Brazil available — 500+ verified GPS locations spanning Fordlândia's Amazon ghost town, the derelict textile workers' villages of São Paulo's eastern districts, the colonial ruins...

Brazil is the largest country in South America and one of the most urbex-rich in the world — a place where Henry Ford built an entire American city deep in...

Brazil built one of the world's largest industrial economies in the 20th century — São Paulo's eastern belt of textile mills, metalworks and food processing plants employed millions of Italian,...

Brazil built extraordinary villa wealth in the 20th century — São Paulo's industrialists, Rio de Janeiro's media personalities and the banking elite of the 1980s and 90s created mansions of...

Brazil's military heritage left a specific and layered physical legacy — the colonial Portuguese fortifications that defended the Atlantic coast from French and Dutch incursions, the Juquery psychiatric asylum complex...

Brazil's derelict hotel landscape spans a century of resort ambition — the grand Nordeste beach hotels of the 1970s development boom abandoned when the economic miracle ended, the Faxinal do...

Brazil's deserted places span the full range of human ambition and natural force — a rubber baron's Amazon city drowned by its own jungle, a Santa Claus theme park abandoned...

São Paulo is simultaneously the largest city in the Southern Hemisphere and one of its most urbex-rich — a megacity where the 1920s jute factory worker village of Vila Maria...