Abandoned aesthetic

A dusty attic inside an abandoned house in Belgium

When a house has been abandoned, Joyce Carol Oates writes, you can be sure there’s a sad story.

Abandoned places

From your local abandoned manufacturing plant to Chornobyl, certain locations are mesmerizing precisely because time and decay have set in. Eerie, fascinating, spooky or beautiful, man-made things that have been left untouched for years have a certain appeal to them.