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The Haunting Beauty Of Abandoned Places By Photographer, Kim Zier (94 Pics)
Although they look unsightly or scary in some ways, abandoned places tend to have a beauty unique to them that has been polished over time. To truly stop and appreciate small things means to understand what might have happened there and the reasons why the place was set aside. Mansions, cinemas, castles, theaters, pieces of incredible architecture design, and even abandoned ships in the seas are part of an endless photo series, taken by visual artist Kim Zier.
Based in Monroe Township, New Jersey, Kim is not only a wedding photographer, but she also devotes much of her time to urban exploration and photographing abandoned houses and places completely forgotten by the world.
Below you will find a selection of her stunning pictures!
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Susann Campbell 6 years ago
The procrastinators meeting will not come to order because of the lack of attendance, maybe next week?
Angela-Jayne Linford 4 years ago
That's exactly what I thought as soon as I saw it!
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Mary Rose Kent 6 years ago
Wow, this place must have been really something in its heyday! I’d love to know where it is.
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Agent K 6 years ago
Formerly a privately owned civil war era munitions warehouse, until it blew up... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollepel_Island#Bannerman's_Castle
Angela-Jayne Linford 4 years ago
Thank you for the information, I was wondering where this was
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Daniela-Iulia Balaciu 6 years ago
this has to be restored, if it'll be included in UNESCO patrimony maybe there will be founds and benevolence
sharron lynn parsons 6 years ago
Very interesting design, sure to have been incredible inside, would love to see inside !!!
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Inflatable Lunchbox 6 years ago
some of those could be restored, if not, at least detailed and put on desplay. bugs are by far one of the most prettiest cars in the world
SBW71 6 years ago
Especially since Volkswagon is going to no longer be making the :(
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Sergio Bicerra Descalzi 6 years ago
My dad had to "put down" his 63 bug (lack of parts here in Perú) and he was devastated for some days. Really loved that car.
sharron lynn parsons 6 years ago
Extremely popular in their day, I think the first small car, to use less gas !!!
OffKeySinger 6 years ago
This is a VW lover's dream. I sold a shell of a VW bus once for thousands that was in worse shape than these seem to be
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Mary Rose Kent 6 years ago
It’s a combination of The Fall of the House of Usher and The Haunting of Hill House.
Susann Campbell 6 years ago
Keep the outside just as it is with a coat of preservative and then do the whole inside bright and beautiful, then I would live there .
Sherri Steinert-Brown 6 years ago
The actual picture is beautiful. The way the clouds and sun make it seem even spookier..beautiful photography
sharron lynn parsons 6 years ago
This looks like a wooden castle, it has many fire places, I think !!!
Tracy Potter 6 years ago
This reminds me of some of the buildings from the video game The Last of Us. I expect to see a "clicker".
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sharron lynn parsons 6 years ago
Appears to have been a lovely small theater,love to see old buildings,antiques, of what was before my time, architecture was an interest for me, not of today, but the incredible beauty',made without our modern technology, today mostly box style buildings, shameful !!!
Mary Rose Kent 6 years ago
This theater was built in the late teens/early twenties of the previous century. I worked at a glorious cousin to this for many years that shares many of these features.
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sharron lynn parsons 6 years ago
OH my, breathtaking, incredible detail likely done with handmade tools, it puts our architecture to shame,amazing to think of the work and time, and dedication to construct !!!
Sara Seifert 6 years ago
I'm thinking an old synagogue or what? Where was this taken? Mesmerizing in the offset symmetry. What is, or was , this?
Aria Whitaker 6 years ago
This is the most beautiful abandoned....well, anything...that I have seen!! I really hope it is restored!
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sharron lynn parsons 6 years ago
If they were sunk, it would be great for the artificial reefs !!!
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Logan Slaughter 6 years ago
I bet this is in Detroit; a lot of beautiful architecture there, left to decay.
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Angela-Jayne Linford 4 years ago
What I wouldn't give to do a paranormal investigation there...looks like there are plenty of stories to be told!
sharron lynn parsons 6 years ago
Lovely detail and antiques, staged with the dress, nice added touch !!!
fernando garcia fragoso 6 years ago
The damn dress make me feel really uncomfortable... It's like, someone's there --- again.. NOPE... NOPE... NOPE...
Charlie Flahive 6 years ago
I scrolled past and saw the dress out of the corner of my eye I had to come back
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F. H. 6 years ago
Meh, too heavily edited for my taste. There's no way to take a picture like that, so it has to be composed of at least to different ones.
Susann Campbell 6 years ago
As I scrolled down I see and moon and a church type window and then stopped and thought kind of Gothic and then the organ and said to my self, "Of course, why not"?
Mary Rose Kent 6 years ago
“When you’re in a dream, the time passes so slowly.”
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Amna Khan Durrani 6 years ago
Imagine going up there slowly and slowly and hearing the piano play a beautiful song would it be peaceful or frightening?
Kenny Kulbiski 6 years ago
I can't help myself, I know this picture is a melodramatic cliche but I still really, really like it.
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Manni Hughes 6 years ago
This is beautiful, I wish I knew where all these abandoned cinemas are!
Jane Alexander 6 years ago
I so agree. No info, no locations, no history of any kind except occasionally in the comments.
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Daniela-Iulia Balaciu 6 years ago
what shall we change into? an indoor amusement park? into some spaces like: find the clue game ? into an Olympic gym? or there is no community left to be interested in that space anymore.
Angela-Jayne Linford 4 years ago
You can just imagine this alive with people excited to see the latest show. What a thrill for the actors as well playing in such a beautiful place!
Jane Alexander 6 years ago
Is this the same place as the other shot of a round stained glass ceiling window?
Mary Rose Kent 6 years ago
The raking on the bottom floor is odd, but the photograph is magnificent!
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CookieNeerrrrd 6 years ago
Its weird how the cutlery and glasses havent been touched and gone dusty yet they still look amazing!
Biljana Malesevic 6 years ago
It's easy to imagine someone living here. If you ignore rotten floor and ceiling.
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CookieNeerrrrd 6 years ago
I honestly cant tell is this is inside or outside? Tell me please someone!
Bree Calatrava 6 years ago
so many houses gone like this........... and so many homeless people out there.
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fernando garcia fragoso 6 years ago
It looks like the abandoned factory on the "last of us" almost at the end of the game. When you reach to the fortress where Joel, finds out his brother is alive.
Angela-Jayne Linford 4 years ago
You can imagine those ceiling works in a train station, I would love to know where this is and what it was?
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Pretty Pangolin 6 years ago
The family with the chainsaw needs to move out first...
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anonymous person 6 years ago
Looks like something directly out of a horror movie. Creepy old abandoned Victorian house: check
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Biljana Malesevic 6 years ago
It could be restored into nice building but it has only 3 windows.
Logan Slaughter 6 years ago
Oh, I remember this one! This is where those Orc Hunters live, right?
Mary Rose Kent 6 years ago
This is magnificent!!! I love the hint of green washed into the door.
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Bob Mumby 6 years ago
People who abandon buildings like this need their heads looking at there is heaps of things this building can be used for
M O'Connell 6 years ago
Loads of large theaters were abandoned during the early/mid 20th Century (at least in my area). The cost to keep them in good-repair is enormous, and the rise of film over performance art meant that theaters which could not be converted into movie-houses were simply not used anymore. Many were torn down. A few have survived merely because of the revenue from the rest of the commercial space in the building. I lived near the Genesee Theater, it managed to survive into the 1980s. Getting it back to being a working theater again took 120 unpaid volunteers 5 years and $23 million.
Load More Replies... Daniela-Iulia Balaciu 6 years ago
quite strange hall, I presume the acoustics was an issue with that hole in the ceiling
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Daniela-Iulia Balaciu 6 years ago
this doesn't look abandoned, and if so, certainly can be transformed to suit other purposes
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Koalamonster 6 years ago
Brings up something that I've heard people talk about in Urban Exploration- can you actually touch/ move anything and still have the images be authentic? Some people seem to think so, but by and large people don't take kindly to staging/adjustments of any kind. Watched a video where a bed frame had been knocked over, looked like by vandals. Argument was can you move it back to how it would've been before the vandalism or is that just how it is now? There are many people with quite strong feelings on it.
Load More Replies... Karin Gibson 6 years ago
That looks like the dress from a previous picture....These pics sometimes look wrong, not abandoned just staged like the previous person said.
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Mary Rose Kent 6 years ago
Even though this appears to be unsalvagable, it still pains me to see graffiti in places like this.
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Pretty Pangolin 6 years ago
Is this the place where the heiress just kept on building? ("Rose Red" is the fictionalized version).
F. H. 6 years ago
No, what you mean is the Winchester mansion, which is a popular tourist attraction and still in very good shape.
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Mary Rose Kent 6 years ago
There’s some beautiful wood that could be salvaged as well.
Load More Replies... Daniela-Iulia Balaciu 6 years ago
every civilization has its ruins, but some can ruin a civilization
fernando garcia fragoso 6 years ago
Is this photo even real? it look like a page of a really dark comic :O
Brinley Cochran 6 years ago
I agree, The Newsboys have a better image than this... Lol.
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fernando garcia fragoso 6 years ago
It looks like the entrance to madness.. Good material for silent hill followers like me :)
F. H. 6 years ago
How can you "follow" Silent Hill? It's been dead for 15 years and not likely to be revived any time soon.
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Angela-Jayne Linford 4 years ago
Another beautiful theatre with just the whisper of ghosts to fill it. So sad to see places like this abandoned and empty. Seems that this could be happening in more places around the world due to the pandemic ☹
Daniela-Iulia Balaciu 6 years ago
that looks too nice to be abandoned. of course money are the issue
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Kristi Lindley 6 years ago
If someone paid you $1,000 would you open that tiny door and sleep in there overnight?
Biljana Malesevic 6 years ago
I think yes, I could. Looks like some great grandmom's attick.
Load More Replies... Mary Rose Kent 6 years ago
I think she’s trying to let us know this space is still in use.
Load More Replies... Daniela-Iulia Balaciu 6 years ago
very nice corp of furniture, maybe a bit clutter, but workable
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Daniela-Iulia Balaciu 6 years ago
the lamp is still working, and it is a good shape, good quality
Pretty Pangolin 6 years ago
Interesting that they still have electricity.
Load More Replies... Mary Rose Kent 6 years ago
Knowing how much dust and mold is in this small portion of the place is making it hard for me to breathe. Psychosomatic asthma...
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Jason Cassidy 6 years ago
It reminds me of a church built into a mountainside in Helsinki Finland. But I’m not 100% sure.
Load More Replies... Daniela-Iulia Balaciu 6 years ago
they can make a swimming pool, and with some colored lights like in a game
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Mary Rose Kent 6 years ago
Interesting ark-like building style. The portal windows are really lovely.
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Jake JakeJake 6 years ago
With you on that one. Corny. Also patriotic and therefore personally disagreeable.
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Pretty Pangolin 6 years ago
Have you seen "Session 9"? Awesome movie. There's a crew doing asbestos cleanup in an abandoned asylum and they run into...things.
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Daniela-Iulia Balaciu 6 years ago
beautiful desk, and chair, and windows, with a bit touch can be placed on the market immediately
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Angela-Jayne Linford 4 years ago
The perfect place for a paranormal investigation 👻
Load More Replies... Daniela-Iulia Balaciu 6 years ago (edited)
they were not interested to preserve, or they were too old. Abandoned people tend to abandon their place too
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anonymous person 6 years ago
Imagine how beautifully ornate the original paint job would have been
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F. H. 6 years ago
I really don't like how the photographer rearranges the items in those pictures. You shouldn't do that in an abandoned place. It looks strange and kind of fake.
Jake JakeJake 6 years ago
Photographically speaking and in consideration of the ethics therein, for documenting a locale truthfully it is fine to arrange items in a location to suit the frame. So long as the photographer is not introducing outside items to create a false or modified environment there is nothing untruthful or "fake" about simply moving something from a spot nearby and positioning it in frame. It's an abandoned space, it's contents are likewise a part of the abandonment, repositioning an item from THAT environment in a way that lends itself to an image could arguably represent the difference between a professional photographer documenting the space and say, some urbex enthusiast just there for a look. If she (I assume Kim being female, sorry if mistaken) were bringing props or say... a bag of "dust" to disguise the fact she moved something in order to make it seem older or untouched, that would be misrepresenting the space. Sorry for long response, I too am a photog and prolly being defensive😅
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Mary Rose Kent 6 years ago
The television and the alarm clock on it are 30-50 years after the other bits, although they do all work well together.
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Mary Rose Kent 6 years ago
Oh, wow—this is the above the dome! I went up into this area at The Castro Theatre in San Francisco after the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake.
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Mary Rose Kent 6 years ago
We had an old couch similar to this when I was young. It was the *most* perfect place for an afternoon nap.
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Karin Gibson 6 years ago
They brought the clothes and the picture with them I saw the JC picture in a previous picture....... to much staging of things that do not belong.
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Mia Granatello 6 years ago
You'd better take care about your hell and leave art spread as it likes
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Kenny Kulbiski 6 years ago
I remember those upstairs bedrooms. Hotter than the hubs of hell in the summer.
F. H. 6 years ago
Every student apartment I ever had. When I sat at my desk, I had to put my feet in a bucket with ice water and wrap a wet towel around my head.
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Angela-Jayne Linford 4 years ago
So frustrating that there isnt any info on all of these places
Daniela-Iulia Balaciu 6 years ago
probably there was a heavy storm, and the roof just fly away. the heirs were so divided that they didn't gathered enough money to sustain the costs. so that, huge buildings are abandoned, and their era pass.
Agent K 6 years ago
It probably was never a house - The architectural style is actually Victorian era institutional. It was likely constructed as a hospital or sanitorium.
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Jane Alexander 6 years ago
How 'bout that. someone just abandoned that girl, just standin' there.
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Deborah Coyte 6 years ago
SUN beaming down on the Mother ship!!! :P The lighting and colors as usual are perfect.
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M O'Connell 6 years ago
This figure was designed with elongated proportions to be viewed from below. His feet probably would have been near eye-level.
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Biljana Malesevic 6 years ago
I see similarity in style and outside view with another photo. Same house?
Karin Gibson 6 years ago
Yes he does I have spotted a lot of stuff they use to supposedly make the pic better. He should have brought some dust.
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Lachlan Steininger 6 years ago
Hardto believe that someone just left these ships to rust and decay
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Jaime Stevens 6 years ago
The same suitcase that says sugar babies is in this picture in the middle, on the floor
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Daniela-Iulia Balaciu 6 years ago
not only abandoned, but probably dangerous to enter and try to salvage something
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Daniela-Iulia Balaciu 6 years ago
this looks a lot times better than the 'place' were I used to go
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Daniela-Iulia Balaciu 6 years ago
that is a sad imagine, but sad probably is what have cause it
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sharron lynn parsons 6 years ago
Karin, you may be right, as on another comment, were asked if things were staged, I wrote that may be, if they wanted to add more interest, or to be more authentic, I agree, as they are not just photos, there is a story within !!!
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Daniela-Iulia Balaciu 6 years ago
they used to salvage the head and the hands of the saint statues, and try to place them on other ones when finding the right size or saint (I saw on TV)
sharron lynn parsons 6 years ago
Wow, that's very interesting, thanks for the info; !!!
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Daniela-Iulia Balaciu 6 years ago
look, the second one is bright red. probably was a very nice theater in its time. probably it is salvageable with a non-profit organisation, they will not have profit any time soon after the restoration
sharron lynn parsons 6 years ago
I think someone brushed off most of the dirt, then to see how pretty it was !!!
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CookieNeerrrrd 6 years ago
Its weird yet also beautiful what time can to do things! These a really amazing!
Angela-Jayne Linford 4 years ago
Such an shame that no info was posted along with these stunning photos. Also a shame that the photographer felt it necessary to add items to their shots, the buildings stood well on their own merits!
Biljana Malesevic 6 years ago
I can't help but to imagine how it all must have looked like some time ago, while it was still used and lived in.
Karin Gibson 6 years ago
Too many props in these pictures....The old buildings are good enough without props and photoshopped ghosts etc.
CookieNeerrrrd 6 years ago
Its weird yet also beautiful what time can to do things! These a really amazing!
Angela-Jayne Linford 4 years ago
Such an shame that no info was posted along with these stunning photos. Also a shame that the photographer felt it necessary to add items to their shots, the buildings stood well on their own merits!
Biljana Malesevic 6 years ago
I can't help but to imagine how it all must have looked like some time ago, while it was still used and lived in.
Karin Gibson 6 years ago
Too many props in these pictures....The old buildings are good enough without props and photoshopped ghosts etc.
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