Human Interest

It’s a wonder some of these places are still occupied.

They were devised by Hollywood set designers, assembled like stage props and "inhabited" by actors, but entertainment was far from the agenda. Photographed

Take a look at the historic streets of Detroit's Brush Park neighborhood and its late 1800's victorian mansions, both restored and vacant.

The media project Mundo Villa chronicles life good and bad in the informal settlements of Buenos Aires.

The haunting images, taken in the Outer Hebrides in Scotland by Buzzcocks drummer John Maher, show the properties untouched and unchanged since the day their owners died.

In and around Cleveland, nearly 6,000 foreclosed and abandoned homes are being destroyed in an effort to save neighborhoods from blight, crime and sinking home prices.

Ray and Michele Blundell built their Elizabethan-style home near Lichfield in Staffordshire from scratch teaching themselves plumbing, electrical wiring and medieval carpentry.

Once it was part of an unbroken chain, a row of 30 brick walk-ups along the east side of Lowell Street from Causeway to Minot, a matching row behind it, another across the street. There were hundreds like it back then, crammed into the immigrant neighborhood known as Boston’s West End.

WESTERN -- Michael Witt and his buddies set out from Johnson County in February 1861 and walked west, looking for land and a better life for their families.

From painted caves to 3-D printed houses.

In the Scottish Highlands and Islands stories abound of the dreaded Clearances and many abandoned crofts, farms and cottages dot the mysterious landscape.

How the narrative of documentary films portraying urban failure changed since the 1930s and shaped architectural and urban thinking.

Its proper name is the Don Mariano Ledesma Lacson Mansion, but locals just call it “the ruins.” Built on a sugar plantation in the Negros Occidental province of the Philippines circa 1920, this...