Thank you! Part of that came from this book called The World Without Us by Alan Weisman. It's about a vision of what would happen to the world after the potential collapse of humanity, but he describes this amazing ghost town in Cyprus called Varosha. It was once a rather high-class beach resort town, but was abandoned in 1974 to the Turks and it's been empty ever since. Trees and vines are growing through these once-posh hotels and the streets are taken over by plant life. It was really amazing and made me think about what would happen in a magical world.

Sorry, you probably didn't really care about all that.