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The Aérotrain is a fascinating idea that was never fully realised. Designed by engineer Jean Bertin and developed in France from 1965 to 1977, this decidedly retrofuture (from today’s perspective)...

If staying in a cable car 9,000 feet in the air above the French Alps is something you would consider to be a relaxing holiday, Airbnb's latest marketing stunt will have you covered. The company has recently...

16 shipwrecks on a sandbar in Bermuda   Bagger 288, the largest land vehicle in the world   Hitler rehearsing a speech in front of a mirror   The end of the Great Wall of...

Urban exploring has really taken off in South Korea, (no pun intended with this particular story). And here we have an abandoned location of unique sort.  It is actually a disused Boeing 747, that was...

Dotted all over the landscape of the U.K are memorials to Britain's wartime dead. From stone plaques in the centre of villages naming those that lost the lives in the Great War, to striking limestone statues...

Image Credits: © Artcurial The idea of one day discovering something extremely valuable that had been hidden away for years, is enough to capture the imagination of us all. However, that is...

It reads like something you might see in an episode of the Twilight Zone. In 2013, the Lyubov Orlova, a Russian Cruise ship weighing over 4,251 tons broke free from its towing line as it was being delivered...

Architecture from behind the Iron Curtain is fascinating.  Their often stark brutal presence offering a dark romance indicative of the design from that era. Combine that with the often atomic space age...

The ever advancing technology of the 3D-Printer has reached new heights with this: The World's Tallest 3D-Printed Building from Shanghai-based construction firm WinSun Decoration Design Engineering. The...

We like to embrace all kinds of architecture here on Sobify, but none come more fun than this unusual selection. With this series of buildings you are witnessing scenarios where the designing architects have...

On August 6th and 9th of 1945, the United States dropped atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, causing unparalleled death and destruction. To this day, the bombings remain...

The  S.S Baychimo while in use by the Hudson's Bay Trading Company Although the coast of Alaska is remote, and the region of the high arctic remoter still, you would not think that an abandoned ship could...

Moving from New York to Florida over 40 years ago, Howard Solomon took the saying, ‘a man’s home is his castle’, and made it into a 12,000 square foot reality made out of scrapped metal and used car...

At first it may look like an environmental travesty. The photographs below show 40 year old NYC subway cars being dumped with reckless abandon into the Atlantic Ocean. On closer inspection, (and after a...

An historic 18th century English mansion that was once sold for a mere £1 has recently gone onto the market with an asking price of £2.3 million. The Grade-I listed Barlaston Hall in Staffordshire England...