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From your local abandoned manufacturing plant to Chornobyl, certain locations are mesmerizing precisely because time and decay have set in. Eerie, fascinating, spooky or beautiful, man-made things that have been left untouched for years have a certain appeal to them. 

The “Deserted Places” Instagram page shares interesting and haunted images of locations that humans have abandoned. So get comfortable as you scroll through, upvote your favorites and be sure to share your thoughts in the comments section below. 

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“Deserted Places”: 30 Cool And Fascinating Posts From This IG Page

Abandoned chateau in the forest

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    An abandoned amusement park left behind in Japan

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    For some, old and abandoned locations are sort of like driving past a car crash, most of us will at least look, but for some, it’s a fascination. Generally, the things we see are representations of when everything goes right. Abandoned and broken things are the fail state, something less commonly found out there. 

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    It’s a unique opportunity to see the effects of time, from peeling and decaying paint, to the impact of nature on man-made structures. Some folks are fascinated by the eeriness of the structures, or perhaps like documenting the signs of human day-to-day life before the entire place was left alone. 

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    “Deserted Places”: 30 Cool And Fascinating Posts From This IG Page

    An abandoned estate left behind in Poland

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    “Deserted Places”: 30 Cool And Fascinating Posts From This IG Page

    Fall colors at the old crystal mill in Colorado

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    The enchanting and abandoned castle Sammezzano. A masterpiece of oriental architecture in the heart of Tuscany, Italy

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    After all, when someone says they are into urban exploration, we tend to understand that as investigating old, mostly unused buildings, not just walking around a city. While some part of urban exploration is just a desire for adrenaline, as these locations are generally closed for a reason, it is still very human to want to discover something new and unseen. 

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    “Deserted Places”: 30 Cool And Fascinating Posts From This IG Page

    This beautiful castle somewhere in Italy is abandoned for several years. There are many ghost stories were the local people are talking about but the previous owner lived here happily until he died of old age. This dining room was my favorite room of this amazing castle

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    When nature takes over overgrown railroad track in Taiwan

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    Caerlaverock Castle is a moated triangular castle first built in the 13th century. It is located on the southern coast of Scotland

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    A crumbling theater left behind in Italy

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    An abandoned mansion located in New Jersey!

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    An old villa left behind in Italy

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    War planes left behind in a field

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    An old American diner with everything left behind

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    autumn colors in an abandoned monastery

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    This could have happened in China, but it happened in Turkey. More than five hundred nearly-indentical castles appear to be copied and pasted into this Turkish hillside but not a soul lives there. Developers meant for these uniform villas to be luxury vacation homes for healthy tourists when they began construction in 2014. However, when the company went bankrupt in 2018, investitors pulled out of the deal which put constuction on hold.

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    Abandoned presidents busts that stand 20+ feet tall. These president heads started as an attraction called Presidents Park in Williamsburg, Virginia. The park was an open-air museum where people strolled among the heads, gazing at the enormous size of them. But a lack of visitors caused the park to close just six years after opening in 2004. Instead of allowing the busts to be demolished, Howard Hankins, who helped construct the park, claimed all 42 heads and lugged them back to his private family farm for safekeeping until someone could think of what to do with them. With each bust weighing 22,000 pounds, it took nearly a week to move them all just a few miles to the large field where they now sit, and some of the heads sustained minor damage to the backs of their heads and noses. You’ll find every president here today (excluding Obama, Trump, and Biden) on his farm rotting away exposed to the elements of nature

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    Hashima Island (端島) is an abandoned island of Nagasaki, lying about 15 kilometers (9 miles) from the center of the city. It is one of 505 uninhabited islands in Nagasaki Prefecture. The island's most notable features are its abandoned concrete buildings, undisturbed except by nature, and the surrounding sea wall

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    A foggy morning at an abandoned overgrown amusement park in Japan

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