30 Places Which Used To Be Full Of Life, Yet Are No Less Amazing After Being Abandoned, As Shared By This X Page
You know what - I recently rewatched the first season of The Last of Us series and thought that humanity experiences a rather weird, not always understandable pleasure from contemplating spectacular scenes of desolation. That is, the places where people once lived where life was in full swing - and now only ivy covers the remains of old brick walls, and only the wind howls in the ruins at night...
Forgive me for being too poetic, but, damn it, how popular the theme of the abandoned remnants of civilization is! Suffice it to recall the old TV series Life After People, where over the course of twenty episodes, all that happens is the gradual destruction of outstanding (and not so) monuments of human activity. In general, it is not surprising that there are many popular resources on the internet that collect photographs of abandoned places - such as this page on X, a selection of the best postings of which we’ll present to you today.
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Dunalistair Estate, Scotland
Recently, some attempts have been made to restore the building, but for now it is still in ruins.
Apparently there have been some revitalization efforts and it is now in use as a retreat, "offering visitors a unique blend of old-world elegance and contemporary comfort." https://beyondvisit.com/abandoned/exploring-the-enchanting-history-of-dunalastair-castle-in-scotland/
An Abandoned House In Portugal
It must have been magnificent in its time, because it's still gorgeous.
Abandoned Tunnel In France
In fact, there are many reasons why once prosperous towns, villages or individual buildings fall into disrepair. This could be the consequences of a military conflict, a devastating natural or human-made disaster, or simply due to changes in economic conditions. Just remember how many towns or settlements in the West of the United States that owed their heyday to the gold rush were abandoned when nearby gold deposits exhausted their potential.
An Abandoned Mansion In The Irish Forests
The old house is Moore Hall in County Mayo that was burned down during the Irish Civil War. https://www.irishmirror.ie/lifestyle/homes-and-property/mystery-abandoned-mansion-irish-forest-27115845
Abandoned Chateau In The Forest
Possibly the owners let it go because of taxes. Those old chateaux are money pits to keep up.
Stock Exchange, Antwerp, Surely Too Beautiful To Be Abandoned
After a long and intensive renovation, it was reopened in October 2019 as an events venue (Antwerp Trade Fair) with restaurant, hotel and public passage.
We must also not forget the destructive consequences of human activity - for example, one of the northern districts of the city of Famagusta in Cyprus has been abandoned since 1974 as a result of a military conflict, and only in 2020 were civilians able to visit it again. Or the site of perhaps the most notorious human-made disaster in the world - the so-called ‘Exclusion Zone’ around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, which arose in 1986 after the accident.
And people who have been there bring dozens, hundreds of photographs, frightening with their lifeless, eerie aesthetics, the terrible beauty of nature, desperately trying to heal the wounds left by humankind...
Abandoned Cruise Ship
Cruise ship companies should be liable for removing wrecks and not just dumping them. I bet they still claimed on their insurance for this.
They were liable, they tried to remove it but the salvage crew were shot at multiple times by locals who were insistent upon looting the wreck instead.
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This is weird. On the one hand it looks big (which it is). On the other hand, compare it to the cruise ships of today and it looks so tiny. This appears to be from back when cruise ships still looked like boats instead of looking like a chunk of New York city broke off and is floating through the ocean.
According to Reddit, MS World Discoverer was a German expedition cruise ship. It hit an uncharted reef in the sandfly passage, Solomon Islands 29. April 2000. https://www.reddit.com/r/Shipwrecks/comments/emwga8/ms_world_discoverer_was_a_german_expedition/
That would be a weird way to end a cruise. I was on a ship that ran aground. USS Enterprise (aircraft carrier). We were pulling into San Francisco after a long cruise - anxious to get ashore and see family. We feel a kind of 'jerk' and the carrier is sitting a tiny bit tilted. And there we were - stuck - but close enough we could see the people waiting on the pier maybe 1/4 mile farther. They tried a lot of things to get us unstuck but in the end we just had to wait six hours or so for the incoming tide to rise us up. AFAIK no real damage - just a major embarrassment. PS - I found a short video about it. I never knew George Takei was on board. Video gets it wrong about the tug boats (it was the tide that got us off) but other stuff is essentially correct. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rf8PQ6FFcBw
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I'd go on a haunted cruise. The Only way you'd get me on a cruise.
I like how this is abandoned instead of "sunken ship now new ocean habitat".
Lighthouse Staircase
Abandoned Swimming Pool
“I also had the opportunity to visit the Exclusion Zone - where the level of radiation allows a person to stay for a short time,” says Ivan Strahov, a photographer from Odessa, Ukraine, whom Bored Panda asked for a comment here. “This is an incredible, incomparable impression. The evacuation of the inhabitants was carried out on an emergency basis, so the state of things in towns and villages has hardly changed for almost forty years. A lifeless kingdom of decay, rust, trees and silence...”
“I photographed many other abandoned objects - houses, sunken ships, abandoned cars and carriages - and I can say that these photographs still evoke some strange, subtle, poignant feeling. As if we, people, created them, endowed them with a peculiar semblance of life - and then they were left to live out their lives alone. In the end, anyone who looks at such a photo can invent stories about the times when there was life there. And this, probably, is the main charm,” Ivan ponders.
Abandoned Castle In Ireland
Mysterious Abandoned ‘Chicken Church’ Built In The Indonesian Jungle By A Man Who Had A Vision From God
As of today, partial restoration work is being carried out in the building, and it is already welcoming tourists.
Again not abandoned, still a place of worship with cafe and souvenir shop.
This Casino In Romania
And now let’s just scroll this list to the very end, mentally walk through these dilapidated rooms and corridors, imagine that the blind gaps of the windows are filled with light and life, try to imagine who lived here and when... and then our own lives will probably seem even more valuable for us all. Or just simply look and enjoy this wild beauty of oblivion, because it is really worth your time and attention!
Abandoned Train
Library Inside An Abandoned 19th Century Victorian Mansion
Ticino, Switzerland
A Mental Health Hospital In Scotland
This is Lennox Castle Hospital in Scotland. It closed in 2002. A really sad place... "In more recent years, comparisons have been drawn between Lennox and cult TV series, American Horror Story: Asylum, thanks to the allegations of abuse, neglect and terrible conditions. Those who attempted to run away would be caught and locked up in isolation for up to six weeks, drugged with heavy doses of medication, and refused contact with visitors." https://www.scotsman.com/whats-on/arts-and-entertainment/the-sad-secrets-of-glasgows-abandoned-mental-hospital-1439724
Faded Glory, Italy
Abandoned Theater
Abandoned Restaurant In Victorville, California
Abandoned Mill, Sorrento, Italy
Abandoned Chateau, France
Currently, restoration work is being carried out on the castle, with the aim of turning it into a tourist attraction.
not anymore, https://www.mothe-chandeniers.com/ (in french ) fast traduction : "On October 6, 2017, the start-up Dartagnans launches a crazy idea: collectively buy the castle of the Mothe Chandeniers. The goal? To save and offer the world a new unique model of heritage preservation. In just a few months, the collective purchase campaign went around the world and the castle seduced women and men from 115 countries, of all ages and cultures. Today, they are the guardians of this castle with absolute romanticism."
The Largest 'Telephone Box Graveyard' Is Located Near Merstham
Abandoned Water Park, Vietnam
The Great Synagogue Of Constanta, Romania
The Abandoned Salto Hotel, Columbia
Abandoned Hotel On The Edge Of A Lake In Italy
Bethlehem Steel, The Factory That Built NYC
Abandoned Filmtheater, Dresden Germany
Abandoned Snack Machine
Graveyard Of Disused Ships
Note: this post originally had 46 images. It’s been shortened to the top 30 images based on user votes.
These photos are so interesting and utterly depressing. I think I'll go and weep by myself.
How interesting and utterly depressing to see these abandoned relics. I think I'll go away and weep.
I don't know about anyone else but I'd love to go exploring pretty much all of these places
These photos are so interesting and utterly depressing. I think I'll go and weep by myself.
How interesting and utterly depressing to see these abandoned relics. I think I'll go away and weep.
I don't know about anyone else but I'd love to go exploring pretty much all of these places
