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.
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Alexandra Road Estate (Rowley Way)
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.
TWA Hotel (Flight Center)
Eero Saarinen’s 1962 TWA terminal at JFK, restored as a hotel: blood red carpets, stark white tube corridors, a sunken lounge, and the feeling of a departure hall that never fully emptied.
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.
Sanatorium Ingul
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.
Campbell Arcade (Degraves Street Underpass)
An underground 1950s pedestrian arcade of salmon-pink tiles, black granite columns and art-deco shopfronts that runs beneath Flinders Street, creating one of Melbourne’s most distinctive liminal and time-warp spaces.
Windows XP “Bliss” Hill
The famous rolling green hill and blue sky that served as the default wallpaper for Windows XP. Photographed in 1996, it became one of the most viewed images in history and remains a perfect example of the optimistic, clean, nature-meets-technology feeling that later evolved into Frutiger Aero.
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.
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.
