Burnsville Center Mall
A large 1970s regional mall that has become a classic example of a quietly fading American shopping center, with long empty corridors, vacant store fronts and an intense liminal atmosphere.
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Concord Mall
A classic late-1960s shopping mall still in operation, but feels increasingly suspended in time with long quiet corridors, numerous vacant store fronts, residual 90s décor, and the soft echo of a once-busy retail past.
Forest Fair Mall / Cincinnati Mills *Former Location*
Large, multi-level complex with bold and unusual architecture (including flying pigs) that spent years in a semi-abandoned state, with vast empty wings and a distinctive, slightly surreal layout.
Century III Mall *Former Location*
Once one of the largest malls in the world, that operated from October 1979 until its closure in February 2019, became a vast closed complex of empty corridors and atriums that became a landmark of the 2000s American retail decline.
Galleria at Pittsburgh Mills
Enormous, nearly empty, y2k mall with vast open corridors, dead escalators, and a sense of recent abandonment that feels especially uncanny.
Rolling Acres Mall *Former Location*
Iconic Midwestern dead mall famous for its long empty corridors and the backrooms type feeling of a once-busy retail space, left behind.
Borders Bookstore *Former Location*
The former Borders book store in Yorba Linda, California that became famous for it’s liminal interior and ‘THE END’ signage, is now a Sprouts Farmers Market. The viral photo was taken in 2011.
Dallas Pedestrian Network (Downtown Tunnels)
Extensive network of underground pedestrian tunnels beneath downtown Dallas, stretching across roughly three miles and 36 city blocks. A real-world “Backrooms” of long fluorescent corridors, shifting architectural styles, and near-empty walkways.