Abandoned and decaying buildings are part of the modern landscape. Should we rebuild them or let them be? Jonathan Glancey takes a look.

An old paper factory in Taiwan houses a series of "atmospheric" installations.

Some awesome but potentially nauseating drone action from this amazing abandoned hospital in Spain.

An abandoned farm house in the middle of a wheat field. Photo by Jeff Edes.

The dark days of World War Two necessitated the construction of many now abandoned control towers and watch towers on airfields and minefields of the world.

A 2-foot-long metal box is Indiana's attempt to save newborn infants from dangerous abandonment and possible death. The proposed baby box is an answer to the state's problem of unwanted infants who are abandoned in the woods, creeks and dumpsters. Local officials want to put these boxes in local hospitals, fire stations, churches and nonprofits for parents to use as a safe, anonymous last resort.

Once upon a time, over 500 years ago, the island of Maui was circumnavigated by a vital trade route -- the King's Highway. .

Built in the late 1970s, this mining village housed 1,200 people at its peak and was left effectively intact for over twenty years before being sold as a whole for $5,000,000 to an entrepreneur in 2004 who has worked on bring it back to life in the decade since. He has, however, had to adjust his plans to the market along the way – his latest endeavor: to revive it to fit its original purpose once more.

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Just two hours from Whistler is the ghost town of Bradian. It has power lines, phone lines, and the 50 acre site is already zoned rural residential. And it can be yours for under a million dollars.

Like many cities, Buffalo, New York, is facing a glut of abandoned homes and lots. There are roughly 16,000 vacant lots and 4,500 vacant homes throughout the city.

I stand at the junction of several dusty, well-traveled roads. Passersby hurry through, chattering and laughing as they make their way from the city looming in the distance to the north, along the paths to the southeast, which branch out as the land grows less dense, winding through lakes and forests.

There are abandoned mental hospitals across the U.S. and horror took place in all of them. Here are six of the scariest of them all.

Sand dunes spill through the doorway of a reclaimed home in the ghost town of Kolmanskop, Namibia. Kolmanskop, formerly home to a diamond mine, was abandoned in 1954 after the precious mineral was depleted.

Travel writer stumbles upon a deep, dark secret

Crumbling castles, haunted villages, and pickled kittens are hidden in the creepiest corners of the globe. Discover the eeriest spots on earth with 10 Creepy Abandoned Places.

For years, Samantha VanDeman has been finding her way into old abandoned motels and photographing what remains.