35 Strangest “Liminal Spaces” That Left Us With An Unsettling Feeling This Month (August 2024)

As someone who’s spent decades in design, I’ve learned that some spaces just have a way of making you feel… off.

This month, we’ve stumbled upon some of the most fascinating and unsettling liminal spaces—those eerie in-between places that seem to exist on the edge of reality. These cool, yet haunting, spots challenge everything we know about design, leaving us with a feeling we just can’t shake.

Whether it’s an empty hallway that feels like it’s waiting for something to happen, or a stairway that seems to go nowhere, these odd spaces are as intriguing as they are unsettling. Let’s dive in and explore the liminal worlds that left us all a little bit on edge this month.

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2. I walked into a building and the whole place was like this.

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3. The sky is odd.

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4. My father sent me this image of where he is. Give me a strange feeling.

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6. A flower field at Hitachi, Japan.

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8. Low income neighborhood in Tyumen, Russia

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9. Strange corridor at the place where I work.

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13. These corridors in a subway station felt very liminal to me.

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15. I-90 overpass in Snoqualmie. Picture taken near Denny Creek

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20. I just found the picture I took a few years ago about the local TV station being weird and showing the Windows home screen.

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21. My son asked me to post this here. He took it with a 25 year old disposable camera.

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Stefanie

Stefanie Mustian

Stefanie is an architect with 15+ years of working both independently as well as on teams of some of the top Architectural Firms in the country located in Atlanta, Washington D.C. and New York. She currently runs BoardBatten.com a coastal architecture and design service in Port Aransas, Texas. She is also the wife of the dude who runs Pleated-Jeans.