Shopping malls are usually hustling and bustling with full of life - particularly around the festive season.
But, on rare occasions, they can slowly fall in popularity with shops disappearing one by one... until there aren't any left at all.
There aren't a great deal of abandoned shopping centres in the UK, but there are some notable malls that were once incredibly busy and now left to rot.
The Wheatsheaf Shopping Centre in Rochdale, St Catherine's Place in Bedminster, and Crossways shopping centre in Paignton are now all derelict.
They've also all creepily been infiltrated by graffiti artists, with spray hidden visible across all three abandoned malls.
Wheatsheaf Shopping Centre, Rochdale
A shopping centre in the North West of England has lay desolate for more than three years, and remains an eerie relic of pre-pandemic life.
Several stores started to leave the Wheatsheaf Shopping Centre from 2017, seeing as the public were spending more time ordering online, and less time browsing in actual shops.
The retail space closed its doors with the rest of the country in March 2020 for the Covid lockdown. But it was later revealed the mall wouldn't reopen; much to the disappointment of shoppers and business owners.
The site was put up for sale shortly after the announcement, and was sold in September 2022.
These days, the shopping centre remains empty and eerily quiet.
Mannequins were left behind in stores, and some have even spilled out onto the desolate concourse.
Graffiti artists clearly used the opportunity to spray paint inside the empty mall, while one joker attached the head of a doll to a traffic cone and left it in the middle of the floor.
The floor remains dirty, with rubbish littering the corridors. Planned building work also appeared to stop halfway through a project, leaving some walls and ceilings strewn across the floor.
St Catherine's Place, Bedminster
St Catherine's Place in Bedminster has slowly declined over the past 20 years, all that remains now is a solitary Farm Foods store.
The future of the shopping centre remains in doubt. There are plans to refurbish it, to build a big block of flats next to it, and to turn it into a bustling thoroughfare from the new Bedminster Green regeneration area to East Street.
All that remains now is empty streets surrounded by boarded-up shop windows and old posters.
Despite the shopping centre having two floors, pedestrians only appeared to use the streets for getting from A to B.
Graffiti appeared on a number of shop windows and boarded-up walls.
Some street art even cropped up on the centre's roof, surrounded by worn paint and dirty walls.
But there remain plans to refurbish, regenerate or even rebuild St Catherine's Place.
Work is already underway on huge student accommodation blocks and a 17-storey block of flats next door.
Crossways, Paignton
Crossways shopping centre once attracted shoppers from across the country, including the likes of actor and filmmaker Sir Richard Attenborough, but has now become a ghost town
The shopping centre saw its last shop - Cancer Research UK - close its doors last year, signalling the end.
Graffiti is now scrawled across the shopping centre's walls and overgrown weeds make their home through the cracks in the paving.
The glass-clad stairwell leads to a deserted car park once full of the cars of busy shoppers.
The view from the Hyde Road entrance paints a similar ghostly picture of the deserted shopping centre.
Once again, weeds and graffiti cement their place amongst the empty shops, including the Crossways Pharmacy and a fabric shop.
