“Evil Buildings”: 50 Of The Strangest And Most Unique Constructions From Around The World
Welcome to “Evil Buildings”, an Instagram page dedicated to showcasing the captivating allure of strange and uncanny constructions spotted around the world. With more than 77 thousand followers, this community celebrates architectural marvels that seem straight out of a superhero movie, fit for a supervillain or an evil corporation. Sounds exciting, right?
So without further ado, we invite you to scroll down to dive into the captivating world of “Evil buildings”, and don't worry if you come face-to-face with the devil itself, the shivers down your spine only enhance the experience. As you explore the images, make sure to upvote your favorite ones and let us know in the comments which of these extraordinary places you would love to visit or perhaps even call home!
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The "Times Square Building". They laid the cornerstone the day the stock market crashed in 1929 and it still turned out to be a marvel.
Load More Replies...Looks like this is the National Bank of Hell, located in, you guessed it!…
The Times Square building in Rochester, NY - a fabulous Art Deco building. Love how the light makes it look so ominous! The interior is AMAZING and there is footage from the construction in 1930 - check out their website: https://www.timessquarebuilding.com
Thank you. Great info on link! So not where Times Sq New Years ball drops? Confusing... just named Times Square building. Is Rochester a subarb not on Manhattan Island?
Load More Replies...I'm laughing that someone downvoted your comment. Some of these do appear to be PS or maybe AI generated.
Load More Replies...Me too, makes me want hot chocolate & a cozy sweater. But then, I grew up in Western Washington so this is really just Springtime to me.
Load More Replies...I never thought of that. I’ll print one off now. What time are you coming over?
Load More Replies...I could see this being advertised. “The House of Doomed Souls, owned by the Grim Reaper, managed by your hometown undertaker, and to absolutely die for! Call this number, area code 666..”
The number of the great beast shall be the number of a man. And that number is 666. Who knew it was a phone number in England?
Load More Replies...I've seen something like this before. It's definitely creepy and the area was just thousands of acres of ranch lands with no lights except for stars.
Guys, stop taking pictures of my house. Yes, that's a real human, no, they aren't alive.
It could be a practical thing for bugs? maybe. "Yellow and amber LED lights will attract the fewest number of insects and bugs. White and blue LED lights attract the most amount of bugs, with ultraviolet and green LED lights also attracting bugs. Red LED lights are the least appealing to bugs—but unfortunately can be less useful for human use."
Architecture has the ability to evoke a range of emotions. While some architectural features captivate us with their beauty and elegance, others have a strange ability to make us feel uncomfortable and uneasy. These eerie structures, often called "creepy," have a special way of making people react strongly when they see them. But what makes them so spooky? Why do certain architectural features have the uncanny ability to make us feel afraid, worried, or uneasy? We reached out to Francis McAndrew, Ph.D., the Cornelia H. Dudley Professor of Psychology at Knox College, to learn more about that.
According to the professor, as a result of evolution, our brains are naturally programmed to be cautious in places that could potentially be risky or dangerous. “Thus, we get creeped out by places that lack what psychologists call ‘legibility.’ Legible environments are easy for us to navigate in. We feel as if we can wander around and not get lost. Creepy places lack legibility. There are a lot of hiding places for bad things that may be out to get you and escape might be difficult because it would be easy to get lost in such a place. Architectural features that make a place seem confusing or unsafe may give us the creeps.”
I was thinking it looked like Batman with a bright idea.
Load More Replies...Really? I git Prince vibes, probably from the purple lighting. 🤣
Load More Replies..."No, we are NOT paying for a specialist to come in and retrofit for earthquake 'JuSt iN CaSe'" said the CEO in the safely designed building out of the country.
Load More Replies...Unlike other photos on this thread, which are merely optical illusions, the building really IS menacing. As a civil engineer, my advice is "run".
The woman holding the child seems to be running away
Load More Replies...How are you supposed to stop your furniture sliding to one side of the living-room?
While fear and creepiness may evoke discomfort and unease, McAndrew shared that getting creeped out places us on our guard and prepares us for threats that we may suddenly have to deal with. So, there are benefits to experiencing fear.
That looks like a big ol nope. I know the story of Headless Horseman and you won't trick me.
But there's candy in his pumpkin head- that's the part of the story they always leave out.
Load More Replies...Or the bridge in then "NOS4A2" by Joe Hill, son of Stephen King.
Load More Replies...Apart from the light reflecting off the two pairs of eye in the rafters, there is nothing wrong with this image.
You're safe if you make it across the bridge because the horseman can't cross. But he can still throw his flaming pumpkin head so be careful how close you get! :)
I'd go in there. During the day. Maybe. I'd at least get closer to it.
I'd take this in a heartbeat. Clear the brush and take the picture in daylight, it would be lovely!
There is a lot of potential here, but you have it wrong. Put mini speakers in the grass to make rhythmic stick cracking noises and put lights long the path with Passive infra-red sensor but rigged to turn the lights off when someone gets close to the lights. Cosy
Load More Replies...You'd better look at the Amityville house. This is nothing like that.
Load More Replies...Wow I like this....would be described as having ”good bones" by a realator.
I feel like if this was bright it’d be really pretty
Load More Replies...Remember creepshow ? What have you done Jordy Verrall ? Now you done it ! You went and got that meteor shite all over you !!! Lol
HAD TO GO HITTING THE HIGH-BEAMS, DIDN'T 'CHA? WHAT IF WE SAW SOMETHING REALLY REALLY SCARY? LIKE AN OLD DUDE NEKED IN THE WINDOW. HEART. ATTACK!
My grandmother made it very clear to me what it meant to have a red light in your window.Hmmmm, is this a church?
Fear and creepiness, those mysterious feelings that send shivers down our spines, often come from the way our imagination and the unknown interact. Our minds have an amazing ability to create detailed pictures in our heads and try to make sense of things we don't fully understand. According to McAndrew, creepiness is all about uncertainty and ambiguity. “We do not know for sure if there are scary things lurking in dark basements and attics, but imagining that they might be keeping us vigilant and wary in the uncertain environment.”
That's some Soviet-era Chernobyl-level horror story right there, kids.
In case you ever wondered where all the evil in the universe is kept, here ya go. Pretty sure it also doubles as Skeletor's summer house.
Because we cannot see certain things. It’s not necessarily the dark that’s scary… it’s about what it can conceal
Load More Replies...Cooling towers don't bother me. That's just steam you are looking at. It's whatever comes out smaller stacks that is to worry about.
“So we’ll march day and night by the big cooling tower. They have the plant but we have the power.”
Load More Replies...Those were built among factories at first. Than earth became valuable, and factories are forsaken or replaced behind the cities borders. So that's the picture. I like them, didn't know what it is as a child, so it still gives me space fantasy vibes. But not this one, these are creepy.
I've seen this hotel in another post where they took a photo of it for advertising the place at a specific angle that the hotel hid the power station behind it
Nothing says "Tourism & Hospitality" like the constant threat of nuclear destruction! Woot!
Mother Abagails house after she is forced to abandon it
Load More Replies...ever since they had died in 1845, little mary, emma, and connie haunt this establishment for fun and have a job as a professional ghost
Have you ever wondered why some people seem more susceptible to fear or being creeped out than others? McAndrew explained that people who prefer things to be clear and feel uneasy when faced with ambiguity and uncertainty are more likely to be easily creeped out compared to those who are more comfortable with uncertain situations. Which one are you? Let us know in the comments!
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Load More Replies...EVIL bikes is located in my area. It's a kind of corporate looking type office building with tinted windows and no indication it is about bikes. And the brushed SS letters on the building just say EVIL.
I’m trying to come up with possible missing letters that would clear up everything frightening about this- Fearless? Feared? Fear… please help
Maybe there's a "no" cut off from the pic? Like a "no fear" tattoo :-)
Load More Replies...🎶 Spent my whole life in the city where junk is king and the air smells shîtty... 🎵
Nah, not scary. Just some farmer expressing his faith. A light up cross (or Jewish star - whatever) in the middle of a farmer's field is nothing really. It's the nut jobs screaming at women outside a clinic WBC screaming at gays about how God hates them. That's the scary stuff IMO. And unfortunately every religion seems to have some.
I think the red is the reason it looks so evil. For some reason humans associate it with scary things
Load More Replies..."They keep tipping my cow's, so Ethel said 'Go out there and show them you're cross' and here we are!"
👆THIS! I don't get why do many comments are focusing on "it's just a symbol of faith" when it's literally a giant glowing lightning rod above what look like grain silos. This is seriously asking for disaster.
Load More Replies...It’s the random person standing in the middle of the cat walk in the middle of the night that’s giving me a oh hell no vibe
oddly... not all that out of place or inappropriately located silos. The dude? Creepy.
I feel like it’s more abandoned than sinister, it looks beautiful but also sort of looks like one of those scenes where the evil figure just walks through the fog and sort of appears
Load More Replies...Reminds me of St. John's Bridge here in Portland on a foggy fall morning.
Looks like the bridge in the pilot episode of Supernatural when the ghost/woman-in-white tries to kill Sam and Dean. :)
The Golden Gate Bridge with snow....the terrifying part is the people attempting to drive in it for the first time.
its feeling a little spicy and hot today. let it have its moments.
Load More Replies.......why do I feel like I could walk in that door and find a gun and a medkit? Maybe some body armor and a gate key.
How about when you go in there is an elevator going down into unknown depths.
hmmm. could be a decent little studio apartment. A little paint Whole different location...
Is this like a reflection on a window and the rest has been edited out?
Again, Silent Hill. I'm not saying the game traumatized me but it did make me cautious
I love the game and the movie. Those nurses are creepy AF.
Load More Replies...Ugh, my brain could make so many good horror stories with these pictures as prompts. “A boy and a girl used to roam these rooms, laughing and playing. One day, the girl was chasing the boy down a set of stairs. She tripped, and fell on top of the boy. They…”
“Began to tumble. They rolled, and they rolled, until both of them were fairly certain that they had rolled for far longer than was possible. After what seemed like an infinity, they came to a screeching halt, sprawled out on a rusty platform with nothing but the slow drip of water accompanying them.”
Load More Replies...And by magic, we obviously mean demonic rituals.
Load More Replies...Idea for Halloween. Replace all your light bulbs with red and scare people who walk by at night. Or advertise your house as a brothel.
Blood! Blood everywhere! Just keep the door shut, we're not heating the street you know!
This is the second one. I'm about to abandon my bug light theory in favor of - weird people
This one could just be halloween mood lighting. I mean this did made me think of Amityville Horror
Load More Replies...Yep probably most for knowing that the lifts will be constantly out of order and one have to walk up and down
Load More Replies...Amber Court apartments in Genting Highlands, Malaysia. Built around 1990. They've done some major maintenance work to the buildings and they're still in use today.
They have a whole shopping area below the hotel if I’m not wrong and it’s still functioning
Load More Replies...Reminds me of DREDD (2012) where all the buildings full of crime and drugs were called things like Peach Trees and Rose Tower
The view at the top ust be incredible. Its not for me though. So urban. I am priviledged to have the choice to live in the country
YKK has no company headquarters. They simply are. Nobody knows who began YKK. The zippers just became and they continue to become. Someday everything will be YKK. EVERYTHING...
Load More Replies...imagine just tryna sleep and you keep rollin off the bed and can barely walk 😭
Dagnabit. There is a huge art installation in my city that was supposed to look like a giant zipper. But it doesn't. This one is a much better design.
Load More Replies...Now if every tiny square on those walls were another shelf holding books, It’d be Heaven.
I... think this is the inside of a decommissioned cooling tower...
Load More Replies...Imagine being trapped down there on your own. Everyone too far away to hear your screams. Seemingly run down so no one would come looking for you. So much empty space, on your own, day after day. until eventually your mind snaps and you're not so alone.
isisde of a concrete tank, looks like a sewage treatment tank waiting for final assembly
10/10 would allow myself to be murdered sneaking into charity hospital.
That place is haunted AF I went there on Vacation, took pictures of a dark empty hospital, that came out with several lights, and a figure in a window. There IS NO POWER. Not surprising though so many people died a sweaty, breathless, horrible death there.
Was it a tour? Or do you go solo? If it’s a tour - sign me up!
Load More Replies...You guys, this is the WRONG HOUSE, nothing to see here
Your comment should be at the top 😂
Load More Replies...wooow this is Kolosej cinema in Ljubljana, Slovenia. In the past few years it has become neglected, seats falling apart, ticket machines from 2003...
The "rdery" looks like it should read "The Murdery" ya know, where ya go to get... never mind.
Private eyes, they're watching you. They see your every move
I love the one red cart! This person must exclusively target (ha, punny!) irritated Starbucks moms on their cellphones who have those bumpersticker stick figure families on their S.U.V
Load More Replies...google image searched. WAS the smallest Target or some such but various posts say it got torn down in 2020 due to building unstable.
Where was this?? What did they sell? Seems only possible to walk In and have a kiosk to order a shipment from a normal sized target lol
Load More Replies...So you think there is a marijuana farm here? Ok, let’s start knocking doors, who knows which apartment it’s in
Not abandoned - never finished. Kim wants more money for nukes.
Load More Replies...So basically, using fear, force, and foolery, every single North Koreans citizen in the country... or at least smart enough to pretend to be said pod person.
Load More Replies..."These millennial windmills don't want to work."
Load More Replies...For who's asking: Happened in December 2011 at Ardrossan Wind Farm, Ayrshire. Hurricane Bawbag/Friedhelm brought gales up to 160 mph to the area. The wind turbines went in stand-down mode, with the blades feathered and the brakes engaged. The mechanical lock brake failed and could not stop the turbine from spinning, causing a power surge and failure of the generator. The dynamo separated and was blown by the wind, the smoke plume in the photo is misleading, the motor is actually falling left to right. Damage to the plant was limited to the 2MW, £350.000 Vestas V80/2000 turbine, for a loss of about 6% of rated power of the installation.
RIP KMART You were my amazon and wallmart and mall before any of those existed around here. But TBH you kind of sucked in later years. Old man mutters about remembering when the in store blue light specials actually had really good deals.
loved their sub sammiches.... near the end of the day they would knock em down to fiddy cent.
Load More Replies...I used to love Kmart so much. Then I got teased relentlessly because a boy in my class saw me there and called me poor and made fun of me. I was so humiliated I never went again until I was an adult..and funny I wasn't poor when I was a kid
But, if he saw you there... He was there too, lol!
Load More Replies...Still open for business. Trades in human organs. Step right in. Are you a customer or a supplier?
Church spires burnt down so often being struck by lightning that the architecture changed to the square top design with four spikes.
Really? I didn't know that, but it makes sense. I thought it was another church arson in the southern United States.
Load More Replies...This what happens when you are in church and say things like, "If that's not the truth may lightning strike me down." Be careful what you say.
"Oi! You! What's the answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, The Universe, and Everything?"
It's like watching that one dumb@$$ from every horror movie ever make the same idiot choice but in real time.
Ugh, I might make a song on this. “In the deep blue. Deeper than deep. There’s a secret there, if you’ll just take a peek” Blue isn’t as scary though
Isn't it though? I mean if I wanted to lure someone into a false sense of security then I'd use an unassuming color such as blue. Who wouldn't trust blue? It's cool and calm and soothing; the ocean, blue skys, happy little blue birds. Come into the blue P.C. we'll take care of you here. You'll never have any worries again. Just enter the blue with us
Load More Replies...The light is probably blue so that the guys trying to shoot up in the doorway can't find their veines.
Dying Light, headquarters. You are GRATEFUL to see the blue UV light.
This is Quarry Bay, Hong Kong. But the image is edited. The real building is only about one 10th as tall as this.
You can see the line where the sky would be. Thank you for sharing the name.
Load More Replies...Ready Player One ..too many of these I am associating with fantasy/dystopian future movies
Let me guess Pyongyang? Someone snuck into the fake North Korean city?
Looks like the abandoned Charity Hospital in New Orleans.
Load More Replies...Shhhh, we don't talk about her and never make eye contact
Load More Replies...You're going to get screwed in either one. The difference is that in a brothel the objects of sexual desire are of legal age.
Load More Replies...If you hadn't said that, I would have said Switzerland or something
Load More Replies...I saw this on the BP main page and entered the article only to say ♡ Frankfurt!!! ♡
It looks like a birdhouse, but needs one of those little pegs in front to stand on.
It kind of does if let your mind play with the size. BTW, Audubon says no to the pegs. It gives bigger predator birds who can't fit in, a perch to stand on while they stick just their head in and eat the babies. So - no peg is safer for them. According to them anyway. I'm no expert
Load More Replies...Now imagine that there's nothing there in the darkness. It's just space. Endless, endless, space.
Ugh. I hate thinking about nothingness. I really do. One time I went with my family onto this high mountain, and it was foggy. Looking back down on the city, you couldn’t see anything. It was all fog and rain and ugh white nothingness is so much worse and freaky than black nothingness, because you see it so often in shadows while white nothingness is almost unnatural
Load More Replies...If you‘re interested, it‘s the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building, located in Shinjuku
Load More Replies...If you drive on this road in the evenings, you will see one of the windows will have a light on.
Load More Replies...yeah. Beautiful in a ...HOLY F**K! THE BLACKNESS IS ENVELOPING EVERYTHING! RUNNNnn! RUNNN! AAAHHHH! gurgggleelle ...ak. ...kinda way.
Load More Replies...Milan Italy Cathedral. Many years ago Dickens visiting the town wrote that London fog was nothing compared to the Milani one.
If it wasn’t for the fog, this wouldn’t look that creepy. It’s very pretty
Which one is this? It's not like we have only a handful of Gothic cathedrals in Europe.
Duomo of Milan. Possibly the richest late-gothic cathedral, the third largest church in the world by surface.
Load More Replies...Maybe it's not stolen. Maybe it's a sentient predator shopping cart cruising the streets, peering into homes, looking for victims... Or it might just be stolen.
Load More Replies...It looks like a scene from a creepy movie where the shopping cart is somehow stalking and killing people.
To me it looks more like a scene from a very low budget Indy game at alpha stage of development
Load More Replies...Those are UFO lights in the sky aren't they?! They are coming to PROBE us!
10/1 they are in the South and the color is very much intentional.
Load More Replies...Disguise, yep, except why would Jesus really like the cross? It's not like he had an enjoyable experience on it...
Load More Replies...When your apartment is on the gloom side and you wish you had paid a bit more and gotten one on the haze side.
The predator Block stood silently, waiting in the mist of the fallen, for its next tenants to prey upon
I predict that within the next 10 years there will be no difference between real and AI generated photos.
Load More Replies...Flags hanging upside down and are made of planks. Windows scattered all randomly. “Doors” are made of random beach wood finds. Not talk about the weird fence. That’s one bad Ai generator. Or a very good one that catches the bad stuff psychedelic drugs can trick your brain in to se…
Isn't this the set of the battle with the demagorgans in Stranger Things season 4?
No, because its fake. Anything could be highly rated it ai was included.
Load More Replies...CTRL+C then CTRL+V, CTRL+V, CTRL+V, CTRL+V, CTRL+V, CTRL+V, CTRL+V, CTRL+V, CTRL+V, CTRL+V
sort of reminds me of that Stallone movie. He was this future cop guy. Dredd? Judge Dredd?
If I learned anything from video games and comics it's that this is where the bad guy is and it's going to be a bïtch to get to him on the top floor
Did they actually finish it? I think it's an evil building because of poor engineering choices, like leaving the concrete structure abandoned and open to the elements for 30 yrs.
I don't know how I know, but I'm just 100% sure a guy designed this...
My father and his wife have an apartment around there, and when we are there, we call that house "the coffee machine house" ^_^
Load More Replies...I Can see it now: “Malevolent, the world’s current most dangerous villain, is plotting to split the world in two unless we swear to give up our buttered popcorn and dogs.”
Load More Replies..."Hi Honey, Satans home! Busy day converting churches into houses of the damned with red crosses on them"
I think it's an ore dock in Michigan's Lake Superior. I could totally be wrong, though.
Load More Replies...The set of the Divergent film trilogy. The set is as awful & depressing as the films were!
The Woodpecker. Learned about this from "Mysteries of the Abandoned" on the Science Channel
This monastery has the monks playing with a big red exercise ball. The high ranked monks hit the ball into the novices with a loud "HA!" and the novices run around protecting the small statues of cherubs shouting back "Ere, watch the kids mate!" It's the church of St Red Orbus, patron saint of child stunning
As opposed to...inhabited? Maybe it's Fraggle Rock!
Load More Replies...It goes around faster and faster and faster until there is a strange white glow and everyone on the roller coaster disappears
That reminds me of a goosebumps story! Some people came to this amusement park, but couldn’t leave. Their car blew up, and… I’m not sure what else happened. Some aliens lived in the park or something? The rides were dangerous?
Load More Replies...Do you know what a tubing flare tool is? This looks like somebody crouched down and held up part of a flaring tool to make it look like another building via forced perspective. Link to flare tools if not clear what I mean. -- https://www.fine2shop.com/?category_id=12591091
Um all I see are kid toys. Oh wait. I might’ve missed some of the link. Edit: no I’m lost
Load More Replies...Reminds me of those glow in the dark bookmarks we got as prizes at Sunday school.
You're right. Those are mammatus clouds by the way. Yes, they are found underneath some cumulonimbus anvil clouds.
Load More Replies...As you stand mesmerized by the tunnel’s geometrical beauty… a white figure appears out of the haze. At first, it’s almost perfectly blended in the white, but as they get closer, you see discernible features on their face. Two pitch black eyes, no mouth, and no nose. Just two black beads looking at you as they walk closer
You should write a story. It was a dark and stormy night…
Load More Replies...Anyone watched Event Horizon? The bit in the corridor to the engine room?
Just no. There's definitely a sheer drop into some fiery abyss at the end
I don't think this one is real. Has anyone seen it before or knows where it is?
Reverb approaching infinity. Good for organ music.
Load More Replies...Someone got a photo during an alien abduction??? How did they pull this off?
It means “Jesus of Nazareth” and is used often with crucifixes. Looked it up once.
Load More Replies...Why include AI/ digital art images? They are obviously fake. Either have all fictional or all real, otherwise it's just a mess with no real context
Sorry. It's real. https://all.accor.com/hotel/B663/index.en.shtml?utm_campaign=seo+maps&utm_medium=seo+maps&utm_source=google+Maps
Load More Replies...This is a roller coaster track. The cart comes off one side at the perfect speed and angle to align itself back onto the track on the other side. /j
I legit thought that was right up against the water. I need new glasses.
Do all those spikes on the sides serve a purpose, like the teeth of a sawfish?
its to ward off the vampires. they havent gotten through. yet.
Load More Replies...I feel like I'm missing something. It's just a grainy photo of the Eiffel tower?
I've heard of this being done intentionally to make way for a roadway or train track but maintaining the facades on the front for the people living across the street from those buildings, so it still looks nice & uniform. I learned it from Sherlock (the BBC one)
Load More Replies...And I'm nauseous. It reminds me of those 3D posters I could never find the hidden image in.
Isn’t this building from a video game? Half Life 2? Just looked it up and yeah, it’s called the citadel.
I was scared when someone wrote "whose the woman In the belltower?" And I could not see her that I was in for a fright
Load More Replies...There's a building in Nashville... we knew we were there when we were kids because someone would yell "Batman Building!!".
Some of these photos are eerie--due often to lack of focus, and therefore, lacking detail--but the buildings themselves? Not so much.
I was scared when someone wrote "whose the woman In the belltower?" And I could not see her that I was in for a fright
Load More Replies...There's a building in Nashville... we knew we were there when we were kids because someone would yell "Batman Building!!".
Some of these photos are eerie--due often to lack of focus, and therefore, lacking detail--but the buildings themselves? Not so much.
