A new boulevard of nearly identical two-storey houses in a repetitive color palette, sat upon rolling hills, at the edge of Richmond, Kentucky. Referred to online as ‘Copy-Paste’ and ‘Barbie’ houses, this neighbourhood looks finished and not yet lived-in at the same time.
Made famous by it’s unsettling juxtaposition: an innocent, bubblegum pink children’s play park shrouded in darkness – that seemed to evoke a universal sense of Anemoia.
This appears to be a partially edited image, with the original photo being taken from the top of Boulderbrook Drive, looking down towards Solitude Street, on a relatively new residential neighbourhood in suburban Toronto, Canada.
The original post featuring this liminal neighbourhood street in Nebraska appears to be on Reddit.
A compact outdoor pool with a row of bright blue slides twirling into the water, has become a well-known image amongst liminal location communities. The small water-park sitting empty under a hard, cloudless sky, has generated a common sense of Anemoia, as if triggering a universal core childhood memory.
Original artwork created by gbrltvrst, the house in the image was taken from a streetview screenshot of Drummond Drive, Milford, DE 19963.
A now-defunct mid-century hotel in Troy, Michigan, whose empty corridors, dated décor and institutional atmosphere made it a popular real-world visual stand-in for Backrooms Level 5 “Terror Hotel”.
A labyrinthine house of open courtyards and narrow sheltered spaces set high in Lisbon’s Alfama district, where medieval walls meet contemporary restraint and one patio is filled with water, creating a liminal sequence of outdoor rooms under the open sky.
A classic Soviet-era sanatorium complex on the riverbank in Mykolaiv, best known online for its eerily empty indoor pool with greenish water, cascading features and stark tiled surfaces, yet the entire location carries a deep, nostalgic liminality that extends far beyond the pool itself.