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50 Of The Most Breathtaking Forgotten Places, Shared In The ‘Abandoned Beauties’ Facebook Group
There aren’t too many opportunities to feel like an adventurer in modern times. However, exploring abandoned places and finding unexpected treasures can give you that deep thrill. You might not bring anything physical back to show for your efforts, but the photos you take and the first-hand experiences make for even better souvenirs.
The ‘Abandoned Beauties’ Facebook page is dedicated to urban exploration (aka Urbex or UE) and showcasing gorgeous images of abandoned places and objects. Both past and present. We’ve got a beautiful selection of photos from them to share with you today, Pandas, so go on and have a scroll down into the mysterious, uncharted wilds of Urbex. Upvote your fave photos and, if you’ve ever gone exploring like this yourselves, tell us all about it in the comments.
A very strong note of warning, dear Pandas: your safety is of paramount importance. If you plan on exploring any abandoned places, you need to take the necessary precautions and be extremely careful. I know that you’re all very capable, but you can’t go adventuring without the proper preparations if you want to stay safe. More on that below.
I reached out to photographer Dominic Sberna for some advice about how to keep our photography gear safe while exploring new areas, how to get the right lighting for photos in dark settings, and to understand just how vital camera angles are.
Dominic told Bored Panda that camera angles are important when it comes to showing off the scope of a large building. "A lower angle is going to intensify the view, just as a high vantage point would. The vantage point really matters as well. Depending on what you're going for in your shot, you'll want to have a nice showcase of the scene in front of you when exploring any abandoned property," the photographer explained. You'll find the full interview below.
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Mcdermott's Castle, Abandoned Fairytale Irish Castle In The Middle Of A Lake, County Roscommon, Ireland
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Abandoned House In The Swamp
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A Very Little Key Will Open A Very Heavy Door. Charles Dickens
#4
The Garden Of Ninfa Is A Landscape Garden In The Territory Of Cisterna Di Latina, In The Province Of Latina, Central Italy
The garden includes the ruins of the ancient settlement of Ninfa, whose name seems to derive from a classical era nymphaeum, a temple dedicated to nymphs, located on an island in the small lake.
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Abandoned Castle In Italy
Debbie Barnes 5 years ago
Can you imagine how beautiful this once was.. The winding staircase, the balls that took place there... So sad that it can't be restored...
#6
Abandoned Casino In Romania
Cristian Alexandru Damian 5 years ago
restoration works are in progress. in 1-2 years will be reopen.
#7
The Stairway Of An Abandoned Button Factory
Rabbit Carrot 5 years ago
Looks like someone raided the place and dropped the stash as they were escaping.
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A Perfect Place For Peaceful Thoughts And Meditation
#9
Abandoned 19th Century Greenhouse, France
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Abandoned Glasshouse
Rabbit Carrot 5 years ago
We have one of these in my town park. It’s really beautiful. I wanted to restore it and turn it into a cafe, the council planning department said no and it’s still rotting away with more and more windows being smashed by yobs each passing year. Sigh.
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Abandoned Mansion, Belgium
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Abandoned Chapel In France
#13
The Ruins Of Bannerman’s Castle, An Abandoned Military Surplus Warehouse, Still Stand In The Middle Of The Hudson River
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Fairy Tale House
#15
I Don't Understand Why People Abandoned Beautiful Properties Like This
#16
A Library Inside An Abandoned 19th Century Victorian Mansion. Who Wants To Explore??
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Italy
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Ballysaggartmore Towers Are Two Ornate Entrance Lodges (One Also Acts As A Bridge)
They are situated on the former Ballysaggartmore Demesne approx 2.5 kilometres from the town of Lismore in County Waterford, Ireland. The structures are were constructed for an Anglo Irish Landlord, Arthur Keily-Ussher no later than 1834.
#19
The Magnificence Of An Abandoned Place
#20
A Roman Bathhouse Still In Use After 2,000 Years In Khenchela, Algeria
#21
An Old Castle That’s Been Left Behind In England
Rich Walker 5 years ago
It's not an abandoned castle, it's King Alfred's tower, a folly built in the1760s to commemorate the end of the Seven Years' War against France and the accession of King George III near the location of Egbert's Stone, where it is believed that Alfred the Great, King of Wessex, rallied the Anglo-Saxons in 878 before the Battle of Edington.
#22
Abandoned Beach House Slowly Being Reclaimed By The Sea, North Carolina
#23
Shengsi Islands
There are few reminders of the power of nature as beautiful and stark as the scenes at the abandoned village of Houtouwan, on the Shengsi archipelago just off the Chinese mainland.
This small fishing village was only deserted in the early 1990s, but since then nearly every building has been enveloped by some of the densest greenery you will ever see.
#24
Abandoned Hotel Del Salto, Colombia. Explore Or Ignore?
#25
Beautiful Abandoned Miners' Cottages In A Disused Slate Quarry In Snowdonia, North Wales
The quarry closed in 1969 due to industry decline and because 170-years of working the site had reaulted in waste tips sliding into the main pit workings.
Suzy McKee Charnas 5 years ago
I can't help but imagine the misery of living in one of those stone cells and trudging off every day in that dank, dim air to work in the mines.
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Strasbourg, France
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Abandoned Hotel In Northern Italy (San Pellegrino)
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Hidden In The Forest
#29
Abandoned Spa Town In The Czech Republic
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Abandoned Villa In Italy
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Ghost Cloud Temple
The Cute Cat 5 years ago
I think this is the pi bedugul hotel in Bali. Abandoned because the building against local rule for not build anything higher then local Pura, so considered to having bad luck.
#32
Aniva Lighthouse In Sakhalin, North Of Japan
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French Castle
#34
A Sanatorium, In Poland. Explore Or Ignore?
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Sintra
André Tiago Almeida 5 years ago
This is not abandoned, it is called "Poço Iniciático" (or Well of Initiation), and it belongs to the complex of Quinta da Regaleira in Sintra, Portugal. It can be visited.
#36
Skola Tower. Italia
Janice Blaufox 5 years ago
Is that the real name? There was no letter K in the Italian language.
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Abandoned Beauty
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Abandoned Train In Siberia
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Abandoned Guitar Factory
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Awesome Staircase In Europe
#41
Who’s Interested In Escaping Civilization And Buying Their Own Private Island In Wales? This Fixer Upper Sea Fort With Epic Views Is Now For Sale, It Was Last Upgraded In 1859!
#42
An Overgrown Pool At An Abandoned Mansion. Location Unknown
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Atmosphere In Russia
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Abandoned Library
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Volkswagen Graveyard
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Abandoned Hotel - 2019
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Smirnykh, Sakhalinskaya Oblast', Russia
Originally, the airfield on this place was built in the early 20th century for the Imperial Japanese Army and was called Keton. It consisted of a 1200 m long concrete runway, gravel taxiways and about 20 equipped aircraft parking lots.
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After the Soviet Union regained control over Sakhalin in 1945, the Smirnykh airfield (both the village and airfield were renamed in 1946 after the battalion commander who died in the battles for the liberation of the island in this area) became home to the 528th Fighter Aviation Regiment, which performed the tasks of air defense of Sakhalin Island and its marine zone.
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In 1966, the airfield was reconstructed. A new runway with a length of 2,000 m was built, which was later extended to 2,500 m, as well as reinforced concrete shelters for aircrafts with fan exit to taxiways.
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In 1994 the fighter aviation regiment was disbanded. The aircrafts were moved to Komsomolsk-on-Amur, where a storage base was equipped, but later all of them were disposed off. But two MiG-23s, one combat aircraft and one combat trainer, were left in hangars at the Smirnykh, where they remain to this day...
#49
If Walls Could Talk...
#50
Soviet Era Tupolev 104 Jet
#51
Abandoned And Beautiful
#52
Abandoned Church In France Where Nature Has Taken Over
#53
Abandoned 19th Century Greenhouse
#54
They Do Not Make Anything Like They Use To
#55
A Glimpse Of Otagi Nenbutsu-Ji Temple, Arashiyama, Japan
#56
The Gate Keeper At The Abandoned Putzar Castle In Germany
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Brings Back Memories Of Phantom Of The Opera
#58
An Abandoned Carousel
Joey Marlin 5 years ago
Odd. Were the stairs added later? Would prevent it going round otherwise.
#59
This Beautiful Synagogue Has Been Abandoned For Over 20 Years
Alexandru Bucur 5 years ago
That is, sadly, the The Great Synagogue of Constanța, built in 1914 in a Moorish Revival architectural style. It was abandoned in 1996, as most of the Jewish community of Constanța either died off or emigrated to Israel. It has been slowly decaying ever since and there is no money or much public interest to save it.
#60
This Is A Ship Is Stranded On Koh Chang And Used To Be Bookable As Accommodation. Now It's Completely Deserted For Some Years Already And People Call It The 'Ghost Ship'
#61
Old Castle In New Hampshire
Annamagelic 5 years ago
Its actually the staircase of a house built in the 1920's that burned down in the 1960s. https://newengland.com/today/travel/new-hampshire/madame-sherris-castle-ruins/
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Villa In Italy
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Abandoned Somewhere
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Palace
#66
Amazing 19th Century Staircase On An Abandoned Building!
#67
This Sculpture Of Jesus At Abandoned Cemetery In Poland Gets Slowly Absorbed By A Tree
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Abandoned Bank Vault
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Nature Taking Over
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Room With A View
#71
A 14th Century Abandoned Castle In Scotland
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Staircase Inside An Abandoned Hospital
Cheri Aline Sydney 5 years ago
It doesn't seem practical for a hospital... I guess I wasn't the first to come to this conclusion ... Could be a great environment for a museum or gallery, though~
#74
Abandoned Castle In France That Once Employed Over 1,200 People At Its Peak
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The Splendor Still Shines Through
Paul-Wesley Bowen 1 month ago (edited)
RKO Hamilton Theater in Manhattan, NY, Hamilton Heights . The theater opened in January 1913. It hosted live vaudeville shows and later played movies.
#76
On Planet Earth
#77
Overgrown Greenhouse In Illinois, United States
Danish Dynomummy 5 years ago
I dont understand why all of these absolutely stunning greenhouses are just left behind. They wouldnt even take that much effort to restore.
#78
An Overgrown Boat On The River In Europe, Exact Location Unknown
chi-wei shen 5 years ago
This is the MS Heimliche Liebe in Frankfurt and it is a science project.
#79
An Old Sanatorium Where Nature Has Begun To Take Over. Exact Location Unknown
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Derailed
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Sevastopol Shipyard
#82
Abandoned Observation Tower At Coral Island, Bahamas
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Poland
Chris Ramage 5 years ago
Either that was placed there, or someone had a s**t ya pants lucky landing
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What do you think ?
Rose the Cook 5 years ago
Some of these are too grand to be allowed to deteriorate, surely they could have been repurposed.
Martha Meyer 5 years ago
And who is supposed to pay for that? Restoring an historical building easily costs tens of millions.
Load More Replies... Courage the Cowardly Dog 5 years ago
Amazing. You can just feel the layers of history in these places waiting to be unpeeled.
Rose the Cook 5 years ago
Some of these are too grand to be allowed to deteriorate, surely they could have been repurposed.
Martha Meyer 5 years ago
And who is supposed to pay for that? Restoring an historical building easily costs tens of millions.
Load More Replies... Courage the Cowardly Dog 5 years ago
Amazing. You can just feel the layers of history in these places waiting to be unpeeled.
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