Guided write-ups of the city's empty hospitals, airfields and amusement parks, complete with directions and a note on the fence situation.
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Abandoned Berlin sits in Liminal Spaces under Weird, filed as coffee break.
About this category: Photographs of places with nobody in them: dead malls, empty pools, corridors at 3am. An aesthetic that has no right to be this affecting.
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Yes. Abandoned Berlin works on phones as well as desktop browsers.
Yes, we file it as safe for work. It also works muted.
We file it as "Coffee break": Five to fifteen minutes of proper attention.
Field reports and photographs of American shopping centres in decline, written by people who cared about this long before it was an aesthetic.
Photographs of the city's abandoned schools and factories, paired with the records of the people who taught and worked in them.
Street-level archaeology of the city — old lamp posts, painted signs and vanished railways, walked and documented since 1999.
Long-form expeditions into Japan's abandoned mines, hotels and theme parks, written by somebody who actually climbed in.
A famously unforgiving airline simulation that keeps running in real time whether or not you are logged in to watch.
Fingerprints your browser and compares it against a research dataset of hundreds of thousands of others. The verdict is usually: unique.
Drop an asteroid of your chosen size on any address and read back the fireball, wind speed and earthquake radius it makes.
Streams clips uploaded straight from phones with default filenames and no audience, drifting past like a broadcast from nobody.
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