Photographer Lori Nix hand-crafted dioramas are fictional scenes of a post-apocalyptic world in which plants and decay reclaim both grand and mundane structures. Each structure is built in Nix's living room and can take over half a year to build. Photo: Library, 2007. Photographer Lori Nix says this is the most popular image she has made for this project that she calls “The City”. (Photo by Lori Nix)

Plants grow on houses in the abandoned fishing village of Houtouwan on the island of Shengshan July 26, 2015. Just a handful of people still live in a village on Shengshan Island east of Shanghai that was once home to more than 2,000 fishermen. Every day hundreds of tourists visit Houtouwan, making their way on narrow footpaths past tumbledown houses overtaken by vegetation. The remote village, on one of more than 400 islands in the Shengsi archipelago, was abandoned in the early 1990s as first wealthy residents then others moved away, aiming to leave problems with education and food delivery behind them. (Photo by Damir Sagolj/Reuters)

The disused bobsled track from the Sarajevo 1984 Winter Olympics is seen on Mount Trebevic, near Sarajevo, September 19, 2013. Abandoned and left to crumble into oblivion, most of the 1984 Winter Olympic venues in Bosnia's capital Sarajevo have been reduced to rubble by neglect as much as the 1990s conflict that tore apart the former Yugoslavia. (Photo by Dado Ruvic/Reuters)

World Champion Trials bike rider Jack Field of Australia poses after performing the highest backflip on a motorcycle ever recorded as he flips his motorbike upside down on the roof of Melbourne's Eureka Tower (297.3 metres) during a AUS-X Open media opportunity at Eureka Tower on May 22, 2019 in Melbourne, Australia. The largest international Supercross and action sports event in the world outside of the USA, the AUS-X Open will be held at Melbourne's Marvel Stadium on November 30 2019. (Photo by Scott Barbour/Getty Images)

Secondary school graduates play in a fountain as they celebrate the last day of school, traditionally called the “last bell” in central Kiev, Ukraine on May 31, 2019. (Photo by Valentyn Ogirenko/Reuters)

Drinking from a helmet at a graduation ceremony held by the Military University of the Russian Defence Ministry at Moscow's Victory Park in Moscow, Russia on June 15, 2019. (Photo by Gavriil Grigorov/TASS)

Guests arrive at the red carpet for the movie “The Truth” (La Verite) presented in competition at the 76th Venice Film Festival, in Venice, Italy, August 28, 2019. (Photo by Yara Nardi/Reuters)

Canada's New Democratic Party (NDP) leader Jagmeet Singh meets with young adults outside Ryerson University during an election campaign stop in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on October 8, 2019. (Photo by Chris Helgren/Reuters)