Monks Mound (Cahokia)
A four-sided earthen platform the size of a pyramid base, rising about 100 ft out of the ground, with a concrete staircase appearing to lead up into the sky – like a real life stairway to heaven.
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Retro Esso Gas Station, Sweden
A small, old, Esso gas station in the snow at twilight: old pumps, picnic table, empty forecourt, surrounded by trees – the kind of roadside still that looks like a paused memory.
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.
The MET Troy *Former Location*
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”.
Primm Valley Resort & Casino
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.
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.
