Fourteen Deserted Wonders Of The Modern World
I know that ghost towns exist, and there's some abandoned amusements parks in - China, I want to say? - but I didn't realize that there were this many abandoned urban areas that date within the last thirty or forty years. Check out the first seven, and the recently posted second list.Photo by tranism
Thanks to the Web Urbanist blog for these cool links!
Labels: abandoned, article, city, derelict, town, urban exploration, web urbanist
posted by Jeff Pidgeon at
7:15 AM
4 Comments:
Amazing stuff! The video of Prypiat is actually pretty creepy.
I like the one in Taiwan where there were several "accidents" and now they won't tear it down for fear that the spirits that inhabit the town will get angry. Could make a good premise for a Ring-type movie.
Yeah, that is pretty wild! I think the picture I posted is from that area.
It's too bad it's so far away - I would've loved to live in houses like that when they were new!
Totally! I was thinking the same thing.
Don't know why they don't try stuff like that more often. Maybe they're incredibly hard to decorate. Or the Feng Shui energy is just all wrong ;)
There are some pretty impressive items elsewhere that have been abandoned in place over the years. A few favorites of mine include the machines used to dig the English Channel tunnels (just pushed off to one side in a hole the machine dug) and some giant pumps left underground in the mines of the Comstock Lode in Virginia City, Nevada. We're talking water pumps that were four stories or bigger just left underground because it was too expensive to remove them. As a whole, humans are pretty good at leaving stuff when they're done with it.
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