Kieron Connolly’s new book of photographs of more than 100 once-busy and often elegant buildings gives an idea of how the world might look if humankind disappeared. Here: Bodie, Mono County, California. Gold was discovered at Bodie in 1859 (just after the initial California gold rush) and it went from mining camp to boomtown. Its decline began in 1880, when word spread of new boomtowns elsewhere. The Standard Consolidated Mine closed in 1913, and four years later the Bodie Railway was abandoned. By 1940 the population was down to 40. Today, Bodie is maintained in a state of arrested decay as a visitor attraction. (Photo by Alamy Stock Photo)

People line up to pay inside a Makro supermarket in Caracas, January 9, 2015. Venezuela's socialist government decreed an “economic emergency” on Friday that will expand its powers and published the first data in a year that shows the depth of a recession fueled by low oil prices and a sputtering state-led model. (Photo by Jorge Silva/Reuters)

A woman toes a tube carrying a man during the Ice and snow carnival at Taoranting park in Beijing, China, January 25, 2016. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)

A boy uses a mobile phone as he sits inside his father's snacks shop along a road in Kolkata, India, February 22, 2016. (Photo by Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters)

A woman watches rescue operations after a bus and a truck crashed on the road that links the Honduran capital with the south of the country, near Germania, 11 km south of Tegucigalpa on February 5, 2017. At least 12 people were killed and 35 injured of some 70 who were on board the bus. (Photo by Orlando Sierra/AFP Photo)

A child dressed as a Roman centurion poses during a parade to mark the anniversary of the foundation of Rome in 753 BC, on April 23, 2017 in Rome. (Photo by Alberto Pizzoli/AFP Photo)

People take part in the in the 41st annual Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras parade in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 02 March 2019. The 41st parade features almost 200 floats. (Photo by Steven Saphore/EPA/EFE)

Over 30 Douglas C-47 Skytrains (Dakotas) making final preparations for flight formation practice before the 75th D-Day Anniversary flight to Normandy in Duxford, England on June 4, 2019. (Photo by UK Air Force Images)