Picturing ruins: More than just a morbid fascination
Click on hashtag #abandoned on Instagram and you’ll find more than 9 million posts. For hashtag #urbex, there are more than 11 million. It’s a seemingly endless supply of haunting photographs of ruins—abandoned houses in the middle of nowhere, crumbling industrial complexes overrun with weeds, ancient graveyards submerged under water.
source: Phys.org