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The city is a fantastic source of beauty and inspiration, with all the glitz and glamour glistening beneath the city lights. But there is another side of the city altogether, one rife with its own kind of allure. Across the tracks, away from the dazzle of downtown, lies a darker imagination, this one looking to grunge-ridden, dilapidated architecture for inspiration. There is a beauty that pervades this kind of urban decay and captured wonderfully through a photographer's well-trained eye. These industrial city scenes are wonderfully dark and offer a glimpse of the weathered face beneath the city facade.

Photographs of abandoned cities, architecture, amusement parks, etc.

Black and white photographs by Saiga Yui of the abandoned island of Gunkanjima - or - Hashima off the coast of Japan.

Photographs of the Maunsell Sea Forts on the Thames Estuary.  Some black and white some color.

Photographs by Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre of abandoned locations in Detroit.