Wooden Shuttle: Rotting Wind Tunnel Model from the Abandoned Buran Space Programme

(All images by  Aleksander Markin ; abandoned Buran programme’s rotting wind tunnel model) Buran, the Soviet Union’s answer to  NASA’s ... Leer más »

Debunking the Strange Case of the ‘Time Traveling Hipster’

(Image:  virtualmuseum.ca  via  Wikipedia ; so-called ‘Modern Man’ at the 1941 bridge reopening) You’ve probably seen the photo, which ... Leer más »

Dungeness: The Strange Abandoned Tracks of a Forgotten Fishermen’s Railway

(Image:  Loz Pycock ; long-abandoned narrow gauge railway at Dungeness) Writing on urban75,  Mike Slocombe  noted a curious set of aban... Leer más »

Real Tennis: The Quirky, Centuries-Old Forerunner of the Modern Game

(Image:  Horacio Gomes ; real tennis court as Jesmond Dene, Newcastle) The roots of tennis are centuries-old, developing from 12 th  ce... Leer más »

Reassembling ex-TTTE Tornado GR1 ZA361 at New York, Lincolnshire

(Image:  Phantom OCU ; Tornado GR1 ZA361 at New York, Lincolnshire) In addition to its role as a front-line Eurofighter Typhoon base an... Leer más »

This Abandoned Billiard Room Still Houses a Full Size Snooker Table

(Image:  Dan Raven ) While photographing an abandoned manor house, urban explorer  Dan Raven  (who discovered this  abandoned BMW ) cam... Leer más »

Urban Explorer Photographs Abandoned BMW Inside a Decaying Garage

(Image:  Dan Raven ) The  Flickr set  of urbex photographer  Dan Raven  features some truly amazing explorations, from forgotten indust... Leer más »

Codex Gigas: Inside the Mysterious ‘Devil’s Bible’

(Image:  Kungl. biblioteket ; the ‘Devil’s Bible’ displayed in Stockholm) First, what we know. Then the lore. The enigmatic Codex Gig... Leer más »

Urban Apiaries & the Rise of Backyard Beekeeping

(Image:  Pursuitist  via  Untapped Cities ; urban apiary at NYC’s Waldorf Astoria) As  Urban Bees  writes on the homepage of its websit... Leer más »

Former Wellesbourne Mountford Spitfire Replica (N3310) Displayed atop Abingdon Garage

(Image:  Maggie Harnew ; Spitfire N3310 replica at Lodge Hill Garage, Abingdon) A  Supermarine Spitfire  replica built for the 1969 mov... Leer más »