Even the one-time homes of the rich and royal can fall into decay. Here's a closer look at what 14 abandoned palaces around the world look like now.

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Photographers Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre have photographed abandoned theaters throughout the US for more than a decade. Their images show the decline of movie-going in American cities, though ...

From there, he discovered abandoned schools, factories, hotels and movie palaces. “Before you knew it, I was obsessed with it,” he said. An abandoned theater in an undisclosed location.

One of the grandest of the old palaces was Detroit's United Artists Theatre, a 2,000-seat, Spanish Gothic–style venue that showed movies from 1928 until the 1970s.

What is lost typically is not the location of a city so much as its story, its life in the world. Ancient cities and towns held in their crowded streets entire cultures: rulers and workers, foods ...

From Detroit to French Polynesia, these former bustling hotels are abandoned – now home to decay and dust and echoes of the past. But they still light up the imaginations of curious travelers.

Since the Tunisian revolution and the 2015 attacks that targeted holiday-goers, tourism has been severely hit. Though Beylical heritage could help boost the tourism sector, some of these palaces ...

Utopia, Abandoned The Italian town Ivrea was once a model for workers’ rights and progressive design. Now, it’s both a cautionary tale and evidence of a grand experiment in making labor humane.