The journey started at Mount Hopeless, and only got more dire from there. After artist Damien Rudd came across the name of that South Australian landform, his curiosity was piqued. He wondered if there were any other places with depressing identifiers, and his hunt turned up a wellspring of inconsolable physical features.
The resulting project is an Instagram account called @sadtopographies, which collects snapshots from Google Maps of places like Failure Canyon in Utah and Lake Torment in Canada. Some of the entries are melancholy, some are macabre, and others are strange to the point of hilarity. With only 90 posts, the account has garnered a whopping 51k followers (and counting). It seems the #sadtopographies audience was just waiting to be tapped.
via Mental Floss
