Stranded on the California–Nevada border, this large casino resort often runs at strikingly low occupancy. Empty parking lots stretch into the desert, and the scale of the public spaces compared with the number of guests creates an unsettling, yet nostalgic sense of a place caught between its intended glamour and quiet decline; like a “forgotten mini-Vegas”, constantly in limbo.
A bookworm fever dream, where guests sleep in cubbies built into bookshelves, that feel halfway between a library and a capsule hotel.
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.
Enormous, nearly empty, y2k mall with vast open corridors, dead escalators, and a sense of recent abandonment that feels especially uncanny.
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.
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.
