The Life and Death of the American Mall

Photo caption: A nearly gutted department store escalator in Owings Mills Mall in Owings Mills, Maryland. Photo credit: Matthew Christopher, Abandoned America. Article by Matthew Christopher. Atlas Obscura – January 10, 2024.

The indoor suburban shopping center is a special kind of abandoned place.

I’ve visited hundreds of abandoned places in my life—factories to asylums, schools to churches—but suburban malls might be the most surreal and striking. They captivate the imagination in a way few other types of environments can: with an almost […]

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