I’ve always had a fascination for abandoned buildings, and have just spent an idle afternoon on the web, searching for some that I’d torn from magazines, but kept not details of. The art deco hotel filled to the door frames with sand, from World of Interiors was one I tried, and failed to find, as well as my own pictures of an empty Croatian hotel.

Instead, I found this, an hotel in Taiwan, the victim of an 80s property boom and bust. And this, the Rubjerg Knude Lighthouse, buried by shifting sand dunes.

And on the whole sand thing, these pictures by Richard Erlich of Kolmansko in Nambibia, a town built on diamond mining, abandoned after the First World War.

Lastly, for now, here is a set of pictures which, though not quite the Croatian hotel I was originally thinking of, shows some amazing Modernist architecture in Bosnia, of a war memorial I think, from the quite incredible Was Abandoned blog.