Environmental Graffiti

The Airplane Graveyard of St Augustine

Like something dreamt up by the writers of Lost, it hits all the right switches for those spellbound by remoteness and abandonment. Founded in 1565, the small Floridian city of St. Augustine is the oldest port in the continental US and a fitting location for the secret it holds: an airplane graveyard, where the carcasses and strewn skeletal remains of aircraft lie – the remnants of a forgotten past.

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Where Automobiles Went to Die

The idea of cars being reclaimed by nature might sound a bit strange. When were cars ever owned by nature in the first place? But think about it. Between them, materials like metals, glass and rubber make up the bulk of our precious roadsters. So, when cars are abandoned, moss and lichen move to a new home, and trees decide their leaves and branches need a novel hiding place, our friends from foliagesville are only taking back what’s theirs.

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The Train Boneyard: Where Locomotives Go To Die

It’s like a trainspotter’s sick dream. In southwest Bolivia lies a place where it looks as if all the country’s ailing old locomotives have rolled into the wilderness to chug their last chugs – or been struck dead on the spot at the hand of the evil stationmaster in the Earth's furnace. If the sight of decaying trains doesn’t give you the creeps, take a tour through this South American train cemetery. We dare you.

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