The Ruined Factories and Industrial Buildings of Motor City

Motor City Detroit is famous for its decaying but fascinating industrial buildings. To me the ruined grant halls and caved-in factory ceilings that create a dark...

Ksar of Ait Ben Haddou, an Ancient Fortified City of Morocco

Aït Ben Haddou (Berber: Ath Benhadu, Arabic: آيت بن حدّو‎) is a fortified city, or ksar, along the former caravan route between the Sahara and Marrakech in the...

Living in the Sahara Desert, Morocco

Erg Chebbi (Arabic: عرق الشبي‎) is really a sea of sand – lots of intensely red and orange sand that reminded me of the sand dunes of Star Wars. To the east you will...

Colors of Boipepa Island & Morro de São Paulo, Brazil

Brazil is vast and there are beautifully lonely spots such as Boipeba Island (Ilha de Boipeba) and, less lonely, at least in 2012, Morro de São Paulo. You get to Morro...

No Vacancies here, at 6° 28′ 33.5″ S 39° 29′ 44.0″ E on Zanzibar

There is always something unexpected and fascinating to discover. When we were on Zanzibar, I heard from an abandoned beach resort at the very South of the island, not...

Detroit’s Terribly but Beautifully Derelict High Schools

Detroit, the derelict city of abandonment, has undergone a dramatic population loss like no other city in the United States. The result is that almost 50% of Detroit's...

Decaying Churches of Detroit

You enter the dark church through the sacristy. When you stand in its former sanctuary, you immediately notice the churches badly vandalized state, broken wooden...

Belize’s Fantastic Bioluminescence

In Belize, there's a river called the Sittee River. It is a body of brackish water that is surrounded by giant mangroves and, at night, total darkness. I mean total...

Night Plane over Detroit

Who hasn’t sat at the window of an airliner at night, staring into the distance, lost in thoughts, wondering what you might see? Well, here you see a close encounter of...

Sands of the Sahara Desert, Morocco

Erg Chebbi (Arabic: عرق الشبي‎) is one of Morocco’s two Saharan Ergs, which are sand or dune seas – a large sea of dunes formed by wind-blown sand. The dunes of Erg...

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