A 64-metre dish on a fully steerable mount, rising out of the trees near a village whose name is Tolstoukhovo, meaning “thick-eared.” Set among ordinary pasture, treelines and a low river town, the instrument is simply too large for the landscape that holds it, like a piece of deep-space hardware dropped into farmland.
A Grade II* listed Camden housing estate: a long crescent of board-marked white concrete, stepped terraces and a pedestrian street in the sky. It feels somewhat apocalyptic on a gloomy day, and the brutalist architecture peaking out from beneath a smattering of foliage gives a unique ‘solarpunk’ aesthetic straight out of a sci-fi movie.
Four massive billboard-like troposcatter antennas, left over from the Cold War, still standing on Anvil Mountain above Nome, Alaska. Known by locals as “Nomehenge”.
Cited as one of the real world inspirations behind Silent Hill, this nearly abandoned mining town sitting above a decades-old underground coal fire, with empty streets, a handful of remaining houses, and the famous graffiti-covered stretch of old highway where smoke rises from the ground.
Massive abandoned theme park left frozen in time after Hurricane Katrina, with rusting roller coasters, empty rides, and overgrown pathways standing in the swampy outskirts of New Orleans.
