What happens to structures when they are left to the elements? Alan Weisman, the author of the bestselling nonfiction book “The World Without Us,” described in an interview with what would happen if humans no longer existed. In a house without people, "suddenly no one is there in fighting off mold, keeping the insects out, keeping the mice out, keeping the woodpeckers out, keeping the water out," Weisman said. Nature takes over.

In a city in Taiwan called Tainan, we see what happens when nature slowly reclaims a building left to rot for 70 years. A massive banyan tree has eerily swallowed up an abandoned warehouse, now called the Anping Tree House.

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The ., according to mymodernmet. The company was one of the first foreign trading companies in Taiwan, but after a decline in the salt industry, the brick building was abandoned and left to the elements.

Taiwanese folklore describes banyan aerial roots as having negative energy, so locals considered the tree house as haunted. However, the Anping Tree House has become a popular tourist attraction.