A photographer from the Ural city of Yekaterinburg, Anastasia Popelskaya, and her husband Dmitry chanced upon an abandoned house giving off steam – so they investigated.

The remnants of a small colonial community, built roughly 270 years ago before the Revolutionary War, can be found crumbling and rusting on a country road and covered bridge in Alamance County.

"With snow still falling and windchill temperatures below zero, Hoaks looks like a scene out of Frozen. Please stay home, stay warm, and stay safe, New York," tweeted Governor Kathy Hochul.

In the spring of 2016, film student Victor Galusca was exploring a sleepy village in his native Moldova when the 23-year-old noticed some photographic negatives in the rubble of an abandoned house.