But for 32-year-old photographer Olivia Broome the austere geometric buildings that dominated European architecture in the 1950s and 60s ... structures until it was abandoned in 1996.

In 1950, a dam project merged two lakes ... its crumbling buildings and eerie silence make it one of Japan's most infamous abandoned places. Visitors can tour the island, which has gained ...

That changed drastically in the 1950s when an exodus began in remote ... says Faustino Calderón in Madrid, who documents abandoned places on his website. “They saw that life in the cities ...