North Brother Island has a long history that's checkered with disease, death, and decay.

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An Indian policewoman is being praised for breastfeeding an abandoned newborn and possibly saving his life in the southern Indian state of Karnataka. "I just couldn't bear it," she said. "I felt like my child was crying and I had to feed the baby." Authorities said they received a call from a local shopkeeper, who spotted the newborn near a construction site in the capital city of Bangalore.

An abandoned Toys R Us store in London got an unusual makeover last month. Five people are accused of turning the once-popular toy retailer into a nightclub-like venue to host an enormous rave in late March. The Hounslow Police of West London busted the “massive Easter Weekend rave," which was dubbed “Raves R Us,” making light of the toy superstore’s iconic logo.

Ross Island, an abandoned British settlement in the remote Andaman archipelago, is being taken over by its rightful owner: nature.

Photographer Vladimir Migutin travelled to Pripyat - a city in the Ukraine that once housed the families of thousands of men and women who worked at the nearby Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant.

My Jungle adventure in an abandoned village, Cheung Uk, in Hong Kong

The Tiki Palace party mansion was built in Chattanooga, Tennessee  in 1972 by strip-club tycoon Bully Hull. A Playboy bunny shaped swimming pool just off the main entrance is the focus of the 5,600 sq foot 3-bedroom mansion. The mansion has been ravaged by vandals who have smashed its interior which had remained almost intact since Tiki Palace would host parties in the 70's and 80's.

A ‘ghost building’ isn’t a haunted mansion or a spooky house.. in fact it isn’t a building at all. But rather, ghost buildings are the outlines of a demolished building that is no more, but you can still see their imprints preserved on a shared party wall.

Graffiti artists had begun covering the empty warehouse in elaborate murals, and in 2016, a partial vacate order was placed on the buildings next door for illegal dumping of asbestos and other hazardous waste. Several other major violations were also cited in 2016 at the property’s southernmost warehouses, which had become a canvas for large-scale graffiti works. None of these violations appear to have been resolved, and the entire campus is currently being left wide open to the elements.

Seemed abandoned, but it had electricity and ventilation, so... While walking through the territory of a factory, located in the industrial area of the city, I noticed a weird concrete block with a metal gate on the side of it. I opened it and a latter climb later I was in a dark, small tunnel leading to an underground bomb shelter/safe house.

For almost 100 years, Coíba was inhabited only by criminals and political prisoners. Now it's one of the most biodiverse regions on the planet. By Sarah Gibbens.

On April 26, 1986, a nuclear meltdown at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in northern Ukraine caused radioactive material to be spewed into the atmosphere, exposing hundreds of thousands—if not millions—of people in Ukraine, Belarus, Russia, and elsewhere in Eastern Europe to extremely high doses of radiation. The effects of the nuclear fallout are still being felt: more than 500,000 people in Belarus, the country most affected by the disaster, have thyroid problems stemming from Chernobyl radiation, and more than 2 million people live in areas of the country that put them at high risk of contamination.

A photographer travels the globe visiting defunct cold war sites. By Kenneth Dickerman and Matt Slaby. (Nov. 30, 2016)

Disco ducks and dancing queens can no longer shake their booties since these dozen decrepit abandoned discotheques took down their mirror balls.

An abandoned chateau in France by Le Luxographe

Explore the ghosts of mental-health history.

China's once-celebrated Traffic Elevated Bus (TEB) has been left abandoned in the middle of a Hebei city road, not having moved once in over two months. Originally touted as the futuristic solution to urban traffic jams, the "straddling bus" is currently causing them.

[...] they note that NASA has other priorities, too – including the space flights managed in the large, active building where the control room is located. Preservationists and former flight controllers complain that, under JSC's watch, the room suffers unnecessary wear and tear while serving as a photo backdrop for things such as mannequin challenges or a visit by Texas A&M's collie mascot, Reveille. In November, Gene Kranz, a flight director during NASA's Gemini and Apollo missions, spoke to a group of preservationists touring the room. Sandra J. Tetley, NASA's historic preservation officer, would like to see MOCR2 treated as a cultural...

A photographer travels the globe visiting defunct cold war sites. By Kenneth Dickerman. Photos By Matt Slaby