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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I wonder why a place with such beauty and history is abandoned in the first place.
Upkeep... most people don’t want to spend the money to keep places like this up. $1000 per month to keep these places looking good.
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It would have been a good idea to put the name and location of these places.
Yes the poster of this should’ve done his research and added the places name at least. Pretty sure they are copy/pasting most of these I’ve seen before on other websites.
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These make my heart hurt. The craftsmanship ... what will the most of the c**p built in the seventies or eighties look like in a one or two hundred years? Even in ruin they have so much to tell us, so many stories and history to be preserved.
Makes me think of the abandoned Chapel at the beginning of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
It’s like the upper floor of Sainte-Chappelle except that the windows aren’t stained and the floor is.
Upkeep... most people don’t want to spend the money to keep places like this up. $1000 per month to keep these places looking good.
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Several of these are so beautiful and it is a shame that they have been left to rot away. It breaks my heart to see these magnificent places abandoned. Some of them, especially the first ones just seem like they should get a second chance. Of course that takes money, lots of money to do something to preserve or repair these beautiful places. Such a shame.
Since they’ve been abandoned for so long, it will take even more money to restore the rot that has happened to most of these places. 💰💰💰💰
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I want to renovate it and live there! Just about enough room for my books!
I love this kind of stuff. If I had unlimited funds, I'd be traveling to abandoned places and exploring! ...After I get tired of living on a boat on a tropical sea.
It's either La Chapelle de l'Ange au violon or La Chapelle du Domaine de Vic
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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
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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
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The ruination of the workmanship of past craftsmen & craftswomen is truly lamentable as they can never be replicated.
In majority of these photos I could imagine a Bride and Groom getting beautiful wedding photos taken
Some of these beautiful yet abandoned places just break my heart. So much craft, so many ressources invested to build something stunning - and then it is all just let go to waste. :-(
I really enjoy photos of abandoned places. So often they are photographed in dark shadows and gloom. These are full of light, color, and life. Absolutely gorgeous work.
Thank you. Such noble and beautiful places that though falling prey to the march of time as we all do are granting a last wave and goodbye. I can make my own story to suit the romance of these inspiring spaces. Let their mystery remain don’t add a story, but then again perhaps some have a story to tell.
beautiful collection...these always give me a feeling of sadness though.
Some of these came from Jewish resorts in upstate NY (This Dirty Dancing). Once Jews were more welcome in other resorts, then many of these were simply abandoned as they could find no buyers for them.
i wonder how these places look when the night comes and the darkness take over
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
Load More Replies... 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/
Load More Replies... 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
Load More Replies... The ruination of the workmanship of past craftsmen & craftswomen is truly lamentable as they can never be replicated.
In majority of these photos I could imagine a Bride and Groom getting beautiful wedding photos taken
Some of these beautiful yet abandoned places just break my heart. So much craft, so many ressources invested to build something stunning - and then it is all just let go to waste. :-(
I really enjoy photos of abandoned places. So often they are photographed in dark shadows and gloom. These are full of light, color, and life. Absolutely gorgeous work.
Thank you. Such noble and beautiful places that though falling prey to the march of time as we all do are granting a last wave and goodbye. I can make my own story to suit the romance of these inspiring spaces. Let their mystery remain don’t add a story, but then again perhaps some have a story to tell.
beautiful collection...these always give me a feeling of sadness though.
Some of these came from Jewish resorts in upstate NY (This Dirty Dancing). Once Jews were more welcome in other resorts, then many of these were simply abandoned as they could find no buyers for them.
i wonder how these places look when the night comes and the darkness take over
