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Friday, 9 October 2026
Directory of the emptied-out settlements of the American West, one short paragraph and one faded photograph at a time.
Filed under Liminal Spaces · Nostalgic, Unsettling
Photographic essays on ruined institutions that are far more interested in why the places closed than in the broken glass.
Guided write-ups of the city's empty hospitals, airfields and amusement parks, complete with directions and a note on the fence situation.
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.
Answer vocabulary questions and the ad revenue goes to the UN World Food Programme. Running since 2007 and still counting grains.
Obsessively detailed database going down to individual episode credits and file hashes. Built for cataloguers, not for browsing.
Miniclip's pool game, still the default way to lose imaginary money to a stranger in another country at half past two.
Centuries of natural history books scanned page by page, including illustrations nobody has looked at in decades.
Canadian satire that assumes you follow Canadian politics, and rewards you handsomely if you happen to.
Faithful browser rebuild of the Roland TR-808, down to the orange buttons and the cowbell nobody can leave alone.
Clickable map quizzes for every region on Earth, unfashionable in design and better than everything that has replaced it.
The pick is derived from the date itself, so everybody sees the same site on the same day and yesterday's is always recoverable.