After a day working hard in a Hampshire laboratory, slouching on the sofa and binge-watching Netflix is insufficient entertainment for urban explorer Archie Williams.

Once the largest linen thread mill in the world, Hilden Mill stands on the edge of Lisburn as one of Northern Ireland’s most haunting industrial ruins from Victorian times. Established in the 19th century by the Barbour family (not connected to the modern clothing brand), the vast complex exported thread across the British Empire and beyond. At its height, thousands of workers passed daily…

Long before shopping malls swallowed modern cities whole, Budapest had Otthon Áruház — a grand urban department store where residents once bought everything from carpets and textiles to kitchen appliances beneath elegant balconies and enormous skylights. Today, the building feels less like a former shop and more like a time capsule sealed somewhere between the Austro-Hungarian era and late…

Far-right influencers launched what appeared to be a coordinated campaign to deride Harley-Davidson as “gay” and “woke.” Many of the attacks promoted the same competitor as a supposedly more "based" alternative.

Ironically, the latest round of criticism comes less than two years after Harley-Davidson abandoned its diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives following pressure from far-right…

Most of Ekin Road now stands empty as residents wait for redevelopment work to begin (Picture: James Linsell Clark/SWNS)

Life on one Cambridge estate has become increasingly bleak for the small number of residents still living there as they are left to wait for a long-promised redevelopment to begin.

Most of Ekin Road now sits empty and unloved after households moved out in their droves ahead…

When the United States entered the Second World War, Alaska became an important strategic hub for military operations in the Pacific, and for the transport of U.S.-built war planes to the Soviet Union for use on the eastern front. This required a considerable amount of petroleum that had to be shipped from the U.S. West Coast to Alaska, and the U.S. Army was concerned this shipping route was…

A filmmaker flew his drone and discovered an eerie village which was mysteriously abandoned over a decade ago.

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Smelting of metal ores requires carbon and high temperature to produce molten metal. Traditional smelting used charcoal, a carbon product made from widely available wood. Unsurprisingly, therefore, charcoal was used widely for smelting in the early days of mining in the American West, because transportation was primitive while scrub vegetation and forests were abundant.

Because of this charcoal…

Most people come to French Leave Beach for the water, which is an entirely reasonable decision. The 1.2-mile crescent of pink sand on Eleuthera's Atlantic coast is the kind of place that makes people question all their other vacation choices. But walk up off the beach and into the scrub, and things get interesting fast.

Tucked behind the dunes are the crumbling remains of a Club Med resort that…

The Colorado Boy Mine sits high on a steep hillside, visible from the Million Dollar Highway far below, but almost no one hikes up to see it close-up.

It features one of only three intact wooden vertical shaft houses left standing from the 1880s silver and gold rush era out of dozens that once stood. This rare survivor is a powerful symbol of the frontier mining life that once filled these…

We wouldn’t be surprised if you’d never seen the Spira before. The lightweight three-wheel vehicle is closer to a go-kart than a traditional car, and that’s before you even get …read more

A philosopher argues that Donald Trump’s falsehoods are not lies intended to deceive but expressions of contempt, which are now alienating his base as they feel the effects.

There’s not much left of the Melchoir Brewery in the Village of Trempealeau, Wisconsin. It’s a ruin, with only one corner of the original building standing. There’s no roof and the windows are long gone. Sandstone bluffs perch behind the ruin. Caves were cut into these bluffs to store the beer that was once brewed here.

The brewery was built in 1857 by Jacob Melchoir, a Prussian immigrant.…

High above Jaipur’s northern hills lies Bann Ki Ghati, a little-known ridge lookout hidden in the rugged folds of the Aravalli range. At the summit sits the crumbling base of an old watch post—arched stone fortifications that once overlooked the valleys surrounding the city and the waters of Man Sagar Lake.

Today the structure stands in quiet ruin, far removed from the crowds of nearby Nahargarh…

In a small community of Geneva, Florida stand the remains of a city bank vault. The city long gone.

This 1900 town known as Osceola. This was named after an Indian warrior from the Seminole tribe. This town built near the St. John’s River near the north side of Lake Harney.

This area was built up based around a company called “Osceola Cypress Company. A lumber company employed many of the local…

Seemingly forgotten in the ever-changing and bustling city of Singapore, the forts of Sentosa stand as remnants of a bygone era. Despite having played pivotal and strategic roles in most of Singapore’s conflicts, the forts are the last of their kind in this small country. Fort Seranpong, Fort Connaught and Mount Imbiah Battery deserve just as much recognition as their larger counterpart: Fort…

Hidden away in woods of the old Cally Estate is a little gothic tower, simply known as "The Temple".

The Temple was built as a folly in 1779, as a decorative feature to be seen from Cally House across the parklands. The Temple is now surrounded by trees but these are the result of the Forestry Commission who purchased the land in 1933 and would never have previous blocked the views.

The Cally…

Hultanäs railway station in Vetlanda municipality is a historic station on the Växjö-Åseda-Hultsfred narrow-gauge railway. It is no longer in regular service and is primarily used for tourist trains, such as the narrow-gauge steam trains of the museum railway.

The platform lies silent, as if time has decided to halt here. The gravel between the rails is overgrown with weeds and grass. The signs,…

A large, rusted spherical pressure vessel set in the woods behind an old, closed down schoolhouse built to store liquefied gas or other materials under high pressure.

A "Horton Sphere" (or Hortonsphere) is a relic from Connecticut's industrial past, looking something like a vintage lunar lander from the golden age of science fiction.

The sphere sits in a fenced off lot (with some breaches in…

Many of the figures have starred in TV and film after being rescued from landfill sites

The 2025 wildfire season in northern Manitoba was the worst on record, burning over 1.5...

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For over 75 years, the United States has been a global leader in climate change research. In the 1950s, scientists at the University of California showed that carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere were increasing and established the first long-term CO2 monitoring system, while Norman Phillips at the Institute for Advanced Studies developed the first computer model of the global climate.…

Tucked away in a copse of scrub oak in the Greenland Open Space is a solitary gravesite, surrounded by an imposing wrought-iron fence, sitting right off the side of Kipps Loop, a trail wandered by hikers and cyclists alike.

This is what remains of the old Palmer Lake Cemetery, also known as Greenmont Cemetery - the final resting place for residents of the town of Palmer Lake, a couple of miles…

While Donald Trump’s bid to grab control over Greenland from Denmark has been attracting all the headlines, the focus on the Arctic is also making Norway anxious. Its northern territory Svalbard could become another bone of geopolitical contention.

Norway’s crown prince, Haakon, speaks at the monument at Skjarringa as he visits Svalbard on August 14, 2025, marking the one-hundredth…

*'Come on boy, come down now. It’s time to go. We are getting late!!', Ram hollered at the tree without a pause and walked towards and through the clearing.

Manu looked at him going out and started climbing down the tree. He didn’t like being left behind and Ram's going to the clearing meant the longer he took getting down from that tree, the longer the distance he'll have to cover to catch up…