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I Found Places Where Nature Takes Over Places Abandoned By Humans
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When nature recovers its rights, the result is simply spectacular.
I have been traveling around Europe for almost 10 years in search of forgotten heritage places. Here you find a series of photographs where nature mixes with human's built environment.
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For me, there’s something transfixing about trees growing in what was once indoors. When I was a child, my parents had friends who lived in the hills of California’s Gold Country and they had a house that had been build around a redwood tree, and the toilet paper hanger was affixed to the tree.
When I was a child, I loved the bumper cars at the Santa Cruz Boardwalk.
I saw this place the other day on Discovery Channels abandoned engineering program. This is an old coal power tower in Belgium, the name is Power Plant IM – Charleroi, Belgium if you'd like to read more on that.
I feel like I've seen this photo before--that is simply one of the most beautiful windows--art nouveau? Is there any chance it will be restored? or saved?
I wish someone with lots of funds would restore all these beauties. I hate to see abandoned homes.
Yet those nylon/polyester drapes are untouched by decay. Take note--they will outlive us
At first I thought that thing on the left was a coffin, but then I realized it was an old gymnasium and that it’s a horse (or at least that’s what it was called when I took gymnastics 50+ years ago).
It would be nice to know the various locations; it’s a mesmerizing collection!
I've heard that explorers keep the locations to themselves to prevent visitors from overwhelming the sites
True fact.
Oh, sure, be all eco-tourism about it! 😁
How can anyone abandon so beautiful places, just wonder...
Economic downturn. There's several abandoned resorts in the Pocono mountains. The invention of air conditioning meant people were less desperate to get out of the city to the mountains. The increase of affordable airfare meant people are able to visit more exotic vacation spots. Most people don't want to hear go hang out in a mountain forest anymore. Hence, the tourism there has struggled and some have failed. For that matter, development of newer & more luxurious resorts in the Poconos also helped kill off the old resorts. I've also seen a lot of amazing "abandoned" photos from the former Soviet Union. Those should be self-explanatory https://traveladdicts.net/abandoned-resorts-poconos/
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Knowing the locations and brief histories of the places shown would have really added a lot to this but still, the pictures are breathtaking.
thank you. It's quite hard to know all the history of the places sorry for that
Wonderful series and I would imagine a lot of physical work to get to some of these locations Romain! Great photography too! Thank you for letting me see through your eyes!
it's not so much the history, although it would be interesting, but the name of the site or town, country.. your photographs are spectacular. thank you
It would be nice to know the various locations; it’s a mesmerizing collection!
I've heard that explorers keep the locations to themselves to prevent visitors from overwhelming the sites
True fact.
Oh, sure, be all eco-tourism about it! 😁
How can anyone abandon so beautiful places, just wonder...
Economic downturn. There's several abandoned resorts in the Pocono mountains. The invention of air conditioning meant people were less desperate to get out of the city to the mountains. The increase of affordable airfare meant people are able to visit more exotic vacation spots. Most people don't want to hear go hang out in a mountain forest anymore. Hence, the tourism there has struggled and some have failed. For that matter, development of newer & more luxurious resorts in the Poconos also helped kill off the old resorts. I've also seen a lot of amazing "abandoned" photos from the former Soviet Union. Those should be self-explanatory https://traveladdicts.net/abandoned-resorts-poconos/
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Knowing the locations and brief histories of the places shown would have really added a lot to this but still, the pictures are breathtaking.
thank you. It's quite hard to know all the history of the places sorry for that
Wonderful series and I would imagine a lot of physical work to get to some of these locations Romain! Great photography too! Thank you for letting me see through your eyes!
it's not so much the history, although it would be interesting, but the name of the site or town, country.. your photographs are spectacular. thank you