Matador editor Eileen Smith finds beauty in the ruins of public architecture , as do the photographers whose work she’s curated here.

SOME ARE EYESORES, drawing vandalism and their share of vermin. Others are shut up tight, weathering years of neglect. Either way, I’m drawn in. I romanticize train travel the way people my parents’ age romanticize trolleys, or paying 5 cents to go to the movies.

And I’m not the only one who stops to look at abandoned train stations. Below are 21 examples from other photographers from around the world who also found them photo-worthy.