We can think that we're leaving our mark on the Earth as much as we want, but it's only temporary. With time, Mother Nature reclaims its lost territories and there's not much we can do about it. Bored Panda has compiled a list of photos of abandoned places, cars and even entire towns that are losing their battles against disappearing because of the force of nature, and you don't have to be an urban explorer to be moved by them. "By the sweat of your brow, you will eat your food until you return to the ground since from it, you were taken; for dust, you are and to dust, you will return."
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Amazing Abandoned 13th Century Château Located In France
In 1932 a fire broke out and caused devastating damage to the building and its contents. It has since been left to the elements.
You're talking literally millions to rebuild it. If I ever win the lottery.......
Load More Replies...This castle is called château de la Motte-Chandeniers, located in the Vienne french department. Thousands anonymous on internet launched a community financing campaign to buy it, targeting 500 K euros.. The website in charged of the campaign is called Dartagnan's.fr. Here is the website of the chateau : https://mothe-chandeniers.com/fr/
Wish someone would invest and rebuild. This would make a fantastic luxury hotel
If you wish to know, see my 1st comment below. It's being restored at the moment.
Load More Replies...If you're into these cool photos, you should consider watching shows like History Channel's The Life After People which have comprehensive timelines of collapses detailing what would happen if humans suddenly disappeared from the face of the earth.
Someone Added Googley Eyes To This Tree Consuming A Bridge
labirynth (1986) movie and in the movie the door knockers?
Load More Replies...we have a neighbor here who parked his bike against a tree about 40 years ago, and the tree grew around it, makes it look like the bike way 'shot' into the tree! super cool
The BBC (with scientific advice from Dr. Philip Wheeler, OU.) has entertained the thought about natural forces as well. Within just days, the electricity grid fails as supplies run out. There's nobody to override the power stations' failsafe mechanisms, too.
Abandoned House, Norway Style
Within a week, the subways built under the water table flood. To put things into perspective, the 47 million liters ( 12.4M gallons) of water that was pumped out of the London Underground every day inundates tunnels. Without heating and air conditioning, mold takes over surfaces in homes and offices. Other plants begin taking over abandoned homes as different species compete for space.
An Abandoned Church In France
Would be a stunning place for a wedding cleaned up a little leave all the nature just remove rubbish and rubble, a few fairy lights, chairs and some flowers, where I would love to get married some day
This building must have been beautiful before, its so sad that wasn't restored.
I so want to divorce my husband so I can marry him all over again here! This would be a glorious wedding site!
You don’t have to divorce—just renew your vows on a major anniversary and then throw a big party for family and close friends who’ve known you both for the entire time (or 10 years, or whatever parameters works for you).
Load More Replies...Eventually, the lines between city and countryside get blurred. Windows fall out of rotten frames and nature's reclaiming of towns and cities would more and more evident. Meanwhile, farmland gets covered by scrub and trees.
But scattered on the surface, some things will never degrade. Metals corrode, plastics start breaking down and dispersing, but stainless steel pans, stranded granite worktops, and billions of car tires remain.
Statue Of Buddha Being Reclaimed By Mangrove Forest
Imagine seeing this physically at night, scary and darkly formidable
Nuclear facilities fail. Some explode, unleashing an enormous amount of radiation onto the local ecosystem causing many animals to die. The radiation makes others mutate, creating new evolutionary lines. In a way, it's kind of soothing to know that the universe would carry on even without us, isn't it?
Trees Sprouted On Top Of Abandoned Chimneys
The Desert Reclaiming Territories In Namibia. Now A Ghost Town, Kolmanskop Was Once An Oasis Where Miners Lived
Actually, this is no good. It's another proof that the desert is expanding. Scientists are worried that in less than half a century, there may be more deserts than anything else on land. It's at least partly due to human activity.
Well, we start getting what we deserve for destroying the planet.
Load More Replies...I Saw A Tree Eating A Stop Sign
The sign even already say 'STOP' and 'NO' but the tree is just haven't enough.. Beware of it..
Abandoned Apartment Building Being Claimed By The Sea In The Former Fishing Village Of Kirovsky, Russia
Why don’t they just knock it down and clear up the mess afterwards, it’s a monstrosity
Scola Tower, Liguria, Italy
Looks like we are all going to have to play rock paper scissors for this.
Load More Replies...And paddle. Belongs to the guy in the red swim suit on the top walkway.
Load More Replies...I saw that in September. Was wondering what the story was. Now I know....sort of.
Trees Grow Inside The Hull Of A Sunken Ship
This is a chance the trees would not have got otherwise.Finally, humans helping nature!!
Not this pic, but related... They have been purposely sinking ships to recreate reefs in part of the world:-) Gives barnacles, etc something to build off of!
Load More Replies...I dare say that the ship before sinking tried wrapping itself around the trees to stay afloat. Trees 1 and sunken ship 0
Abandoned Bike Reclaimed By Ivy
As this is in The Netherlands it's probably an art project. Your bike would have been stolen before ivy had a chance to take hold.
Not to mention the fact that the authorities would put a label on it after a short while, and remove the bike if the label is still there after two weeks. XD Nothing ever gets the chance to age here. My dad calls this country Legoland. He is right.
Load More Replies...Here in New Orleans bikes don't even have to be abandoned to be reclaimed by nature. You look away for a couple minutes and the ivy attacks.
Destined To Be Green. Abandoned Escalator
If there really were a stairway to heaven, this is what it would look like.
Holy cow. Am I the only one who'd love to go there and walk up the escalator and feel like a Disney princess exploring?
Mother Nature Is Calling. Somewhere In China
This would be an amazing picture if it wasn't for the "look at me being dramatic" Instagram girl... Too bad.
ill go anywhere if your with me just wont go where are bugs and insects and snakes
Load More Replies...People have reclaimed old RR cars like this and made them into tiny homes. Looks like someone may have made a home here at some point in the past. Oh, the stories in my head.
This Tree Grew Over A Grave Stone And Took The Cross With It
It's like a visual representation of how when we die, we decompose, and become one with nature and the god(s) up above (if you believe in god[s])
Load More Replies...my aunt would love if a tree did this to her grave someday! She LOVES trees and has even considered being cremated and then planted with a tree somewhere amazing.
Shrine In Japan
This picture doesn't give it justice!! It's much more beautiful from other angles!!
I bet this one remains because people touch it daily and that keeps the moss from consuming it.
All that effort to create this was wasted on religion when it could have gone to the well-being of the people. Love and care for your gods more than your children, family, and neighbors...that's the definition of being devout for many people.
Abandoned Asylum In Italy That Has Been Touched By Bob Ross
For a moment I thought it was a painting. It would certainly make a great one (minus the blots on the left)
Oh dear, hope you were introduced to him in the two years since you made this comment. He's a legend in the art world. An artist and art instructor with one of the gentlest souls there ever was. He would have called this a "happy accident".
Load More Replies...Should read, “Abandoned Asylum In Italy That Has Been Touched UP By Bob Ross”
Abandoned Stone Cottage. Sneem/Kenmare, Ireland
You find these all over Ireland. Most are famine era. Either the people died, left for the cities or left the country. Ireland can feel crowded, tourists everywhere and better roads connecting the whole country and hundreds of thousands me people with the recent immigration but there still less people living here that there was before the famine.
No I wouldn't say it was abandon. The tree's look pretty much at home there! Probably their space to begin with.
Think of the hands that built this little cottage— stone by stone by stone.
I live in the Sligo countryside here in Ireland and there are many cottages like that where I live. A lot of them were abandoned after the famine or by families who immigrated to find work. Here is one I took a photo of one summer morning. SAM_1171-5...c80286.jpg
Unfortunately, there are hundreds like this here in the north of Spain. They are beautiful, but they mean that the rural areas are being abandoned and the little villages are disappearing.
Earth Slowly Reclaiming An Abandoned Boat - SS City Of Adelaide, Wrecked Off The Coast Of Magnetic Island, Australia
I would guess all kinds of Nope creatures, since it is Australia
Load More Replies...The ones that grow out of water like that kill me. It’s odd because they are land trees, not the kind of plant that would grow in the ocean.
Boats are sometimes deliberately sunk in order to create new reefs in the ocean, because they provide shelter for lots of small fish, corals and other creatures. As long as no oil or fuels remain, these are actually a good thing for the environment.
Load More Replies...A Barn Claimed By Kudzu In Tennessee
This is such a common sight in rural Tennessee, that thing grows at lightning speed.
Best keep a moving if you go there or the stuff will gobble you up. Sleep in a different state!
Load More Replies...Plot twist- it's not abandoned, the inhabitants just slept in that morning.
Kudzu? OK. "Kudzu (/ˈkʊdzuː/; also called Japanese arrowroot) They are climbing, coiling, and trailing perennial vines native to much of eastern Asia, Southeast Asia, and some Pacific islands." "Kudzu is an invasive plant species in the United States. Its introduction has produced devastating environmental consequences.[1] This has earned it the nickname, "The vine that ate the South". Kudzu's primary method of reproduction is asexual vegetative spread (cloning) which is aided by the ability to root wherever a stem is exposed to soil.In the 135 years since its introduction, kudzu has spread over three million hectares (ha) of the southern United States, and continues to 'consume' the south at an estimated rate of 50,000 hectares (120,000 acres) per year, destroying power lines, buildings, and native vegetation in its path.[19] This claim, however, was disputed in 2015 with the United States Forest Service estimating an increase of 2,500 acres (1,000 ha) per year." (Wiki) Impressive!
Plot twist... It's not a barn but a tent full of campers that overslept. Kudzu grows that fast
I live in Tennessee and kudzu isn't a native plant that was introduced on interstates to cut down on mowing costs. It's impossible to get rid of now and it's so invasive that it's choking all of the beautiful native flora out. I hate the stuff!! Now, decades later, they spent millions of dollars trying to kill it off. That's cheap bureaucrats for ya!
I was told it was brought in as ground cover to help with erosion. Imagine how much better life would be if it had never been imported. How stupid we were.
Load More Replies...I used to go climbing in Red River Gorge, KY, and the Kudzo is out of control! The only animal, from what I understand, that will eat Kudzu are goats.
They should bring in millions of goats. Kudzu is literally taking over TN, MS, NC.
Load More Replies...Kudzu can grow 2-3 feet a day, which made me laugh at the Walking Dead, Atlanta would be buried in weeks without the crews that work 24/7 to cut this plant back.
My kids used to call these areas "snake lakes", because the way it grows and takes over the other plants and structures is always so oddly smooth and rounded, like water. Also, they knew how much snakes love to hide in kudzu.
Overgrown Roller Coaster
This Building Was Completely Overgrown By Ivy
But the neighboring houses clearly cut away any ivy that grows onto them. Seriously, the other 2 are spotless! Edit: that's my favorite thing about this pic.
Load More Replies...Gross. Think of all the rats, bugs, and other vermin living in that ivy mess.
It must have been abandon for some time. Apparently one on was concerned about it. I'd be some what worried about the critters that would take up residence there.
Wonder where this is? It's surprising that the city would allow this to happen. It looks like a nice community
Abandoned Railway Bridge In Czech Republic
If you're talking about Alaska, I know what trestle you're talking about! It was fun hiking there in the winter lol
Load More Replies...I've seen a similar bridge in Thenmala, Kerala (India). They reinstated the whole thing quite recently.
Just A Little Moss, It Will Buff Out
Part of the Dharma Initiative. I saw Hurley driving it on the other side of the island.
It’d part of the Dharma initiative. Pretty sure I saw Hurley driving this on the other side of the island.
Roger "Work Man" 's final resting place. It was stacked full of beer, for some strange reason...
Load More Replies...This Tree I Found Growing In An Old Silo
Mushrooms Growing Through The Floor!
The boards being loose due to moisture the plants took the path of least resistance.
I Found A Tree Growing Through Speed Limit Sign
The home-owners apparently don't care that taxes will have to pay for this eventually.
Or maybe they don’t feel the need to personally pay for the mobile home park’s infrastructure.
Load More Replies...Lost Road In WA
We have many of those in Oklahoma. Especially where the Corps of Engineers have created reservoirs and swallowed up hundreds of small communities. Roads that disappear into a lake is common place here. There are dozens of small towns in Oklahoma that were relocated because otherwise they would be underwater. Some are just gone.
Pitcher OK. will become another one some day. It's demise was water contamination from old mines.
Load More Replies...Actually, I assumed Western Australia (WA) though likely Washington or anywhere else, really.
Load More Replies...I Grew Up On The Puerto Rico Navy Base Which Closed In 2004. It’s Now Overgrown And Taken Over By Nature
I found a picture of the road I grew up on- this is the part after the hill behind me. It makes me sad, there were lots of good memories there.
Hurricane Maria may have accelerated the process of making it look like no one ever lived there.
This makes me sad. I lived there for a short while when I was a child. Never knew this happened. Have such fond memories.
This was abandoned long before Maria. The Navy used to train on Vieques and Culebra and there was a very unfortunate fatality. Then came the uproar with people like Jesse Jackson and a Kennedy involved. Stop the training! So they did. No training, no need for a Naval Base. Navy closed Roosevelt Roads Naval Station. One of the biggest employers in Puerto Rico was now gone.
Little place I grew up in is a ghost town now. There are maybe a handful of homes in the whole town and many of the streets are completely grown over. The swamp is reclaiming the yard I played in as a kid.
A Tree Eating A Fence
You mean de-fence-less? sorry i'll show myself out
Load More Replies...This Tree Has Almost Completely Overgrown A Large Metal Sign Posted On It
That's because an idiot nailed the sign to the tree. That's the tree's revenge.
I’d like to nail a sign to a tree that says “Ahhhhh!! Noooooo!!” And take regular photos as the tree slowly swallows it...
Nature Winning The Battle Against Civilization In The Exclusion Zone Around Chernobyl
Just watched a thing on Chernobyl last night. It's estimated it won't be safe for humans to return there for another 20 thousand years.
Lol there used to be a wildlife like it existed hundreds of years ago, only disturbed by a few Tourists every now and then, but now theres that effin TV show about Chernobyl and every single Instagram-F*****t thinks its trendy to go into the Zone. Just leave it alone.
Well, then you’ll likely find it heartening to know they’ll likely pay for their folly—it is still radioactive.
Load More Replies...This Street Sign Has Been Covered By This Tree
The best smelling street sign in the neighborhood!
Load More Replies...I think that's wisteria. Love that vine- but only plant it where you want it to disassemble anything it touches!
We use to have a bunch of stop signs in the town I grew up. Many of stop signs were hidden behind tree's and they were dearly beloved by the cops! Lot's of tickets, lot's of revenue until the public got wise and started filing law suits...then all that revenue had to go into removing tree's and lot's of trimming.
Would hope the traffic cop insist it is still a stop sign and give you a ticket.
Abandoned Car In Beijing
I imagined abandoned because hoomans left the area, but to live along side a trash car and let it sit there long enough for this to happen is just lazy and nasty
Nasty and lazy? What do you propose doing about it? Steal it in order to get rid of it? It's not your property. You are welcome to complain to the authorities but if they choose to do nothing, neither should you.
Load More Replies...I would suppose that the vines have been given a helping hand. Fun project actually, and it looks much nicer than a broken-down old car.
It is interesting that the license plate is not covered. Maybe it has a current registration and this is intentional? 🤔
Reminds me a pet waiting for it's dead owner to return. Over sentimental, I know, but just thinking better than the original intent. Long forgotten and left behind.
It looks like shredded rubber—old bicycle tire, maybe?
Load More Replies...Those creeping vines grow crazy fast!! My neighbor clears his pergola of whatever variety of vine it is in the fall. In the spring it takes less than two weeks for it to cover the pergola completely.
I dont know. It's been turned into a lovely natural. Probably better than an old car sitting there.
Colony Of Moss Growing Inside A Bike Seat
It looks like there's a miniature ravine in there, complete with trees and a river at the bottom
This Tree Near My School Track That Absorbed A Fence And Shows The Pattern On The Bark
Tree is totally uninterested in who was there first! Never mind, I'm coming through!!
And I thought a weed growing through the cement of a sidewalk was exciting.
Cactus In A Rain Gutter
And the owner is not very diligent with cleaning the gutters :)
Load More Replies...We have many happy accidental flowers growing in places we didn’t plant them! Especially. A couple oof gladioli in the middle of my lavender!
A Sacred Tree Reclaiming An Occupied 5 Story Building In An Old Section Of Downtown Kolkata
very creepy. talk about a 'haunted house.' can you imagine what it looks like at night? yikes!
I don't have a picture, but in San Antonio, if you go on the Riverwalk boat tour, they will point out the tree growing out of the office building caused by the great flood in the 1930's. This reminded me of that. Very cool.
Thr r many such buildings in Kolkata. I know cos I'm from around thr.
This Tree Has Nearly Totally Grown Around A Sign
Is the tree eating the sign? In a two hundred years we come back and cut this tree open will there be a sign in there? This is hurting my brain!
Considering I’ve never seen this before, there certainly are a lot of them.
The sign has the look of one of those historical markers that were placed in the 1930s
Abandoned City Akarmara, Abkhazia
Spooky. It became uninhabited in the early 1990s due to the War in Abkhazia (1992-3).
Road washed out by flood, WA state
I've seen this kind of thing happen in New Mexico after heavy rains caused flash flooding.
I would be afraid to even stand there taking the photo.
Load More Replies...This looks like the back way thru marblemount, wa. I swear I heard banjos driving through that town?!
It was probably raining so hard that the road was too flooded to drive on it.
Load More Replies...Found A Shoe In The Woods
An Old Abandoned Road Slowly Healing Over And Being Reclaimed By Nature
This will take centuries. so why ant you tell the difference between deserted, and nature being supreme, This is proof that There is order in the Universe and nothing is by chance, and all the pictures apart from the photo shopped entries, prove there is a supreme creator.
These Plants Growing Out Of Someone’s Car
A similar thing happened to my dad's car when I was a kid. We joked that it was becoming a Chia Car
The smaller leaves and tendrils look like a variety of jasmine. I can’t ID the larger leaves.
Load More Replies...hasnt been washed, dirt an plants being left in the edges, now this happens
Plants? hehehehe... those are trees... they are going to regret letting those little bastards take root
Abandoned Office Found With Lots Of Moss And Mold
Castle Hackett
When Nature Takes Over
Abandoned Bridge Near Manu, Peru Getting Overgrown With Vines
Mossy Phone Booth. Hoh Rainforest, Olympic Peninsula, Washington State
Lost War Tool Taken Over By Beautiful Nature
Kudzu Claims A Bridge
Nature Reclaims! The Trees Grow Where The Tracks Once Were
This Unused Swing Covered In Moss
Rolling Acres Mall In Akron, Ohio
The Old Westinghouse Electric
My Friend Found This In The Woods Behind His House
A Tennis Ball Covered In Moss
A Lantern Overgrown By Vines That Looks Like A Tree
These Bikes That Tenants Left In The Back Yard
wow. I have a story I just made up now! what if a teenager had a bunch of his/her friends over and they had a sleepover? then, the teenager ate their brains after playing video games for hours because he started hallucinating and thought he was a zombie? then, their bikes remained there... sorry, what is wrong with me? where did that thought even come from???
But they stole the bikes from the unpopular kids in the first place so they deserved to have their brains eaten. Perfectly normal thoughts.
Load More Replies...Anyone recall a show many years ago, I think it was either the Discovery Channel or on the History Channel that showed what would happen to our planet if all humans all of the sudden disappeared from existence. If I remember correctly, I think they said it would take approximately 250,000 years for all signs of our civilization to be completely gone.
Everything created on Earth eventually goes back to that earth. As it should.
I would simultaneously love to visit these and also be completely creeped out by some of them
wreck of the Peter Iredale, Oregon coast near Astoria Peter-Ired...688dc0.jpg
Anyone recall a show many years ago, I think it was either the Discovery Channel or on the History Channel that showed what would happen to our planet if all humans all of the sudden disappeared from existence. If I remember correctly, I think they said it would take approximately 250,000 years for all signs of our civilization to be completely gone.
Everything created on Earth eventually goes back to that earth. As it should.
I would simultaneously love to visit these and also be completely creeped out by some of them
wreck of the Peter Iredale, Oregon coast near Astoria Peter-Ired...688dc0.jpg
