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Although they look unsightly or scary in some ways, abandoned places tend to have a beauty unique to them that has been polished over time. To truly stop and appreciate small things means to understand what might have happened there and the reasons why the place was set aside. Mansions, cinemas, castles, theaters, pieces of incredible architecture design, and even abandoned ships in the seas are part of an endless photo series, taken by visual artist Kim Zier.

Based in Monroe Township, New Jersey, Kim is not only a wedding photographer, but she also devotes much of her time to urban exploration and photographing abandoned houses and places completely forgotten by the world.

Below you will find a selection of her stunning pictures!

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Susann Campbell
Community Member
7 years ago

The procrastinators meeting will not come to order because of the lack of attendance, maybe next week?

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    Anna Salord
    Community Member
    7 years ago

    WOW. Just WOW

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    Inflatable Lunchbox
    Community Member
    7 years ago

    some of those could be restored, if not, at least detailed and put on desplay. bugs are by far one of the most prettiest cars in the world

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    CookieNeerrrrd
    Community Member
    7 years ago

    Think of the spiders living in there...

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    Nupraptor
    Community Member
    7 years ago

    Fallout has taught me that this is 100% a trap.

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    反社会的
    Community Member
    7 years ago

    This architecture is amazing.

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    CookieNeerrrrd
    Community Member
    7 years ago (edited)

    What pretty pink ships! Artificial reefs, maybe?

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    Mary Rose Kent
    Community Member
    7 years ago

    This one has it all.

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    CookieNeerrrrd
    Community Member
    7 years ago

    Im concerned about the 'ghost' sitting on the sofa

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    F. H.
    Community Member
    7 years ago

    Meh, too heavily edited for my taste. There's no way to take a picture like that, so it has to be composed of at least to different ones.

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    Manni Hughes
    Community Member
    7 years ago

    This is beautiful, I wish I knew where all these abandoned cinemas are!

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    Daniela-Iulia Balaciu
    Community Member
    7 years ago

    what shall we change into? an indoor amusement park? into some spaces like: find the clue game ? into an Olympic gym? or there is no community left to be interested in that space anymore.

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    CookieNeerrrrd
    Community Member
    7 years ago

    Its weird how the cutlery and glasses havent been touched and gone dusty yet they still look amazing!

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    Donna Reynolds
    Community Member
    7 years ago

    Even the ceiling fan is sad.

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    fernando garcia fragoso
    Community Member
    7 years ago

    It looks like the abandoned factory on the "last of us" almost at the end of the game. When you reach to the fortress where Joel, finds out his brother is alive.

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    Anna Salord
    Community Member
    7 years ago

    I would 100% live here 😍

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    Susann Campbell
    Community Member
    7 years ago

    Rapunzel let down they hair so I can trim the split ends.

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    Susann Campbell
    Community Member
    7 years ago

    Girl what happen to you, you look like a train wreck!

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    Bob Mumby
    Community Member
    7 years ago

    People who abandon buildings like this need their heads looking at there is heaps of things this building can be used for

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    Daniela-Iulia Balaciu
    Community Member
    7 years ago

    this doesn't look abandoned, and if so, certainly can be transformed to suit other purposes

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    Deborah Hillary
    Community Member
    7 years ago

    Again not dusty, just staged

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    Mary Rose Kent
    Community Member
    7 years ago

    Even though this appears to be unsalvagable, it still pains me to see graffiti in places like this.

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    Alex
    Community Member
    7 years ago

    I would love to see someone restore that instrument so it can create music again!

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    Mary Rose Kent
    Community Member
    7 years ago

    Spectacular!

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    CR82
    Community Member
    7 years ago

    I hope someone saves those windows!

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    fernando garcia fragoso
    Community Member
    7 years ago

    It looks like the entrance to madness.. Good material for silent hill followers like me :)

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    Angela-Jayne Linford
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    Another beautiful theatre with just the whisper of ghosts to fill it. So sad to see places like this abandoned and empty. Seems that this could be happening in more places around the world due to the pandemic ☹

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    Daria B
    Community Member
    7 years ago

    The fall of bright ideas.

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    Kristi Lindley
    Community Member
    7 years ago

    If someone paid you $1,000 would you open that tiny door and sleep in there overnight?

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    反社会的
    Community Member
    7 years ago

    I wonder if any of the records still work.

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    Tambot
    Community Member
    7 years ago

    Someone re-used the space... boxing!

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    Misterscooter
    Community Member
    7 years ago

    Rapture chute.

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    Mary Rose Kent
    Community Member
    7 years ago

    Interesting ark-like building style. The portal windows are really lovely.

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    CR82
    Community Member
    7 years ago

    spectacular!

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    Mary Rose Kent
    Community Member
    7 years ago

    INSANE ASYLUM

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    Paul Chang
    Community Member
    7 years ago

    Still usable.

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    Daniela-Iulia Balaciu
    Community Member
    7 years ago

    beautiful desk, and chair, and windows, with a bit touch can be placed on the market immediately

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    Mary Rose Kent
    Community Member
    7 years ago

    Perfect setting for a whodunnit

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    anonymous person
    Community Member
    7 years ago

    Imagine how beautifully ornate the original paint job would have been

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    F. H.
    Community Member
    7 years ago

    I really don't like how the photographer rearranges the items in those pictures. You shouldn't do that in an abandoned place. It looks strange and kind of fake.

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    Elle Sourit
    Community Member
    7 years ago

    The reflection in the tv creeps me out...

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    Mary Rose Kent
    Community Member
    7 years ago

    The windows and bannisters are deluxe!

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    Pretty Pangolin
    Community Member
    7 years ago

    This one's a little too staged - it looks like an album cover.

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    Mary Rose Kent
    Community Member
    7 years ago

    Oh, wow—this is the above the dome! I went up into this area at The Castro Theatre in San Francisco after the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake.

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    Mary Rose Kent
    Community Member
    7 years ago

    100-year-old movie theater

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    Mary Rose Kent
    Community Member
    7 years ago

    We had an old couch similar to this when I was young. It was the *most* perfect place for an afternoon nap.

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    CookieNeerrrrd
    Community Member
    7 years ago

    60 years later, still not made the bed. Just like me... ;-;

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    PandaPiñata
    Community Member
    7 years ago

    Reminds me of the game "We happy few"

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    Karin Gibson
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    7 years ago

    They brought the clothes and the picture with them I saw the JC picture in a previous picture....... to much staging of things that do not belong.

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    Rohit Sastry
    Community Member
    7 years ago

    woah

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    CR82
    Community Member
    7 years ago

    very neat perspective

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    Mary Rose Kent
    Community Member
    7 years ago

    This appears to still be in quite good shape.

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    Kenny Kulbiski
    Community Member
    7 years ago

    I remember those upstairs bedrooms. Hotter than the hubs of hell in the summer.

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    Angela-Jayne Linford
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    So frustrating that there isnt any info on all of these places

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    anonymous person
    Community Member
    7 years ago

    Poor lonely piano

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    Mary Rose Kent
    Community Member
    7 years ago

    A priory?

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    Paul Chang
    Community Member
    7 years ago

    Bates bnb

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    Jane Alexander
    Community Member
    7 years ago

    How 'bout that. someone just abandoned that girl, just standin' there.

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    Mary Rose Kent
    Community Member
    7 years ago

    Fascinating!

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    Deborah Coyte
    Community Member
    7 years ago

    SUN beaming down on the Mother ship!!! :P The lighting and colors as usual are perfect.

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    Mary Rose Kent
    Community Member
    7 years ago

    Finally, something not moldy

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    Karin Gibson
    Community Member
    7 years ago

    JC is a bit better than the EXIT sign earlier

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    Mary Rose Kent
    Community Member
    7 years ago

    Absolutely gorgeous!

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    Paul Chang
    Community Member
    7 years ago

    Quite majestic

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    F. H.
    Community Member
    7 years ago

    Does the photographer bring his own China? The tea pot is in another picture too!

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    Mary Rose Kent
    Community Member
    7 years ago

    Hunting lodge

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    Linda Something
    Community Member
    7 years ago

    Wow! I wonder where this is taken!

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    Joyce Dalton
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    These old theaters was have been awsome in the day.

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    F. H.
    Community Member
    7 years ago

    That exit sign likes to travel, as it seems.

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    反社会的
    Community Member
    7 years ago

    sugar babies?

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    Mary Rose Kent
    Community Member
    7 years ago

    Gorgeous

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    Mary Rose Kent
    Community Member
    7 years ago

    Plantation-esque, but with the wrong trees

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    Jaime Stevens
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    7 years ago

    The same suitcase that says sugar babies is in this picture in the middle, on the floor

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    Restless
    Community Member
    7 years ago

    This Exit sign travels too much

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    Daniela-Iulia Balaciu
    Community Member
    7 years ago

    not only abandoned, but probably dangerous to enter and try to salvage something

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    Karin Gibson
    Community Member
    7 years ago

    The magical moving case......Spooky NOT.

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    Karin Gibson
    Community Member
    7 years ago

    OOOH another Exit sign.

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    CR82
    Community Member
    7 years ago

    looks like they left yesterday

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    Daniela-Iulia Balaciu
    Community Member
    7 years ago

    that is a sad imagine, but sad probably is what have cause it

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    Daniela-Iulia Balaciu
    Community Member
    7 years ago

    this is quite nice, they should make a treasure hunt place

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    Mary Rose Kent
    Community Member
    7 years ago

    The graffiti hurts so much!

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    Karin Gibson
    Community Member
    7 years ago

    The same JC statue again...It is spot the Photographer's own stuff

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    Daniela-Iulia Balaciu
    Community Member
    7 years ago

    they used to salvage the head and the hands of the saint statues, and try to place them on other ones when finding the right size or saint (I saw on TV)

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    Daniela-Iulia Balaciu
    Community Member
    7 years ago

    look, the second one is bright red. probably was a very nice theater in its time. probably it is salvageable with a non-profit organisation, they will not have profit any time soon after the restoration

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    Agent K
    Community Member
    7 years ago

    too much effort

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