As a child, these questions horrified me, but as an artist I have learned that there is power in finding the fascination that lurks in that feeling.
Moreover, these places are finding a new fascination as part of an aesthetic of re-use.
And the travel industry is finding that this fascination extends to their families, fueling a surge in multigenerational travel.
Morris continued on his path of hybrid documentary, always finding sources of fascination and import: the inventor of the "humane" electric chair (and a Holocaust denier), the world's foremost physicist (and a quadraplegic), and on and on.
As the French president François Hollande is finding out, our enduring fascination with a man and his mistress is as strong as ever.
Arcangel says that his fascination with finding artistic inspiration in unlikely machines can be traced to a composition class he took at Oberlin with Pauline Oliveros, the electronic-music pioneer, who is now seventy-eight.
But an older series Origin of the Beginning is about finding out where certain fascinations and ideas came from.
Since her graduation from Central Saint Martins in 2008, Beijing-based fashion designer Vega Wang has drawn on her fascination with light, finding captivating and unconventional ways to incorporate it into her designs.
I confess to finding Caviar Houses a perennial sources of fascination when in a terminal.
Her knowledge of the square's history started to merge with a longtime fascination with old typewriters, which she was finding all over Berlin.
