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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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#1
Dunalistair Estate, Scotland
Recently, some attempts have been made to restore the building, but for now it is still in ruins.
bigoldthor 2 years ago
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/
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#2
An Abandoned House In Portugal
Stephanie Did It 2 years ago
It must have been magnificent in its time, because it's still gorgeous.
Xitxarel•lo Panda 2 years ago
I totally agree, but I have a question.....what Stephanie did? :)
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LokisLilButterknife 2 years ago
Eerily beautiful. I'm waiting for a ghostly specter to float down the stairs.
Ozymandias73 2 years ago
My lord! I can only imagine how gorgeous this must have been when it was still new.
#3
Abandoned Tunnel In France
OneHappyPuppy 2 years ago (edited)
This place gives me such a strong feeling of déjà vu, like I've been there. Not from above, down there on the tracks looking up. I've never set foot 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.
#4
An Abandoned Mansion In The Irish Forests
bigoldthor 2 years ago
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
DarkGlassSphere 2 years ago
I thought the same! Lots of work to clean it, though.
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Ashley Brown 2 years ago
Who builds a mansion in the middle of the woods? Lol me that's who (well if I was a millionaire lol)
#5
Abandoned Chateau In The Forest
Robert Trebor 2 years ago
Possibly the owners let it go because of taxes. Those old chateaux are money pits to keep up.
Ondřej Nehyba 2 years ago
It was a chateau of Lobkowitz noble family, on of the oldest in Czechoslovakia, it was taken from them by communists in 1948.
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Captain McSmoot 2 years ago
I bet the original owners would have "chateaued" themselves to see what it's become now.
Marcos Valencia 2 years ago
I better shut up... last time I said that not every French chateau is actually a castle, I was banned for a few days.
Ondřej Nehyba 2 years ago
Hořín, Czechia. The destruction by 40 years of communist rule. https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ho%C5%99%C3%ADn_(z%C3%A1mek)
Jane Thorne 2 years ago
My husband worked with Fred Lobkiwtiz.( they are both physicists). His family has been working for 20 years trying to reclaim this and other properties stolen from them during WW2! They still haven't been able to do so!
Azure Adams 2 years ago
You have to turn those into a multi family working co-op. Otherwise they turn into this
#6
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.
David 2 years ago
The venue's web site has a number of photos of it after restoration. == https://handelsbeursantwerpen.be/en/
Fora Nakit 2 years ago
https://slowtravelantwerp.com/en/stock-exchange-antwerp-schadde/ It got renovated and this is how it looks like today.
Kathleen McGann 2 years ago
When "stock exchange" referred to the buying and selling of cattle not shares. 😎
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...
#7
Abandoned Cruise Ship
L H 2 years ago
Cruise ship companies should be liable for removing wrecks and not just dumping them. I bet they still claimed on their insurance for this.
M O'Connell 2 years ago
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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David 2 years ago
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.
bigoldthor 2 years ago
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/
David 2 years ago (edited)
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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Bored something 2 years ago (edited)
I'd go on a haunted cruise. The Only way you'd get me on a cruise.
Karri Berkowitz 2 years ago
I like how this is abandoned instead of "sunken ship now new ocean habitat".
#8
Lighthouse Staircase
Xitxarel•lo Panda 2 years ago
Nautilus, a clear example of Fibonacci's theorem
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Just-4-2day 2 years ago
Started scrolling from the top of the image and could not determine if they stairway was going up... or down. It wasn't until I saw the bottom 1/3 of the picture that the illusion went away. Still it's beautiful.
#9
Abandoned Swimming Pool
Griffy 2 years ago
I am going to guess somewhere in the UK? I have seen other pools similar to this there.
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“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.
#10
Abandoned Castle In Ireland
The Dog Lover (She/her) 2 years ago
If I could abandon society and live there forever, I would!
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Vermonta 2 years ago
i was curious about the castle and found that some sombrero de culo photo shopped that in. It was abandoned because it was attacked in the 1500s. No roof or floors and a couple of walls
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Riley Quinn 2 years ago
Not impressed with the front lawn. Can't play croquet with a huge hole in the ground.
#11
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.
Pedantic Panda 2 years ago
Again not abandoned, still a place of worship with cafe and souvenir shop.
LooseSeal's $10 Banana 2 years ago
Just like all proper places of worship.
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Lila Whatsoever 2 years ago
If the altair is under the tower/chicken head then the entrance is through the chicken's a**e, I guess?
#12
This Casino In Romania
Sergio Bicerra 2 years ago
My first thought was this is where Cruella was filmed, but 2 minutes of google proved me wrong.
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!
#13
Abandoned Train
bigoldthor 2 years ago
Abandoned steam train in Schumkowo, Russia. According to one Reddit poster, "The steam train graveyard is part of a reserve base near Shumkovo railway station in Perm Krai, in the Ural region of Russia. Several dozen steam locomotives and wagons are rotting away here under the sky. The base was established in 1967, transferred here from the town of Kungur."
#14
Library Inside An Abandoned 19th Century Victorian Mansion
GhostlySnail (she/her) 2 years ago
I know! I want to go there and rescue all the books, imagine how cool it would be to read them.
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David 2 years ago
Wow. Some days I realize having a librarian grandmother affected me. All these abandoned buildings and I feel interested / tiny bit sad. But then I come to this picture of all these rotting books and this wave of sadness washed over me. They might not even be good books but it still seems very sad. I wonder what happened that (apparently) they just walked away from the building, contents intact.
AuntKaren12 2 years ago
someone please get those books to a collector or somewhere to be preserved
#15
Ticino, Switzerland
Mike Fitzpatrick 2 years ago
Someone has to be caring for this place, it's not overgrown in the least.
#16
A Mental Health Hospital In Scotland
Jan Wilhelm 2 years ago
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
Ashley Brown 2 years ago
So disturbing. I live in Massachusetts and thought the old Danvers state hospital was creepy enough. It's apartments now but a lot of bad s**t took place there. Sad to think some of the most vulnerable of us, those with mental illness, were so misunderstood and mistreated. I'm glad that it's better now, but the entire world has a long way to go
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#17
Faded Glory, Italy
Lloyd Johnson 2 years ago
Looks almost like The Grand Budapest Hotel. Wonder if the same architect was involved.
Patricia Smith 2 years ago
I hope that this is restored in the near future. Its bones are simply beautiful!
#18
Abandoned Theater
David 2 years ago (edited)
Sad. I can kind of picture this fixed up because we have a local theater that looks somewhat similar. It was not abandoned but it has been remodeled with an eye for keeping the historical aspects like the ceilings in the lobby have paintings and stuff. No banana for scale but the chandelier you see at the top will fit a king size bed inside it (according to the theater). Not shown in photo but has a large balcony area above where the photographer would have been standing. EDIT: I realized the photo was taken FROM the balcony. == 20220223-1...0Vines.jpg 
Mark Waugaman 2 years ago
And so my friends we say goodnight for time has claimed her prize. But tonight will always last as long as we keep alive the memories of Paradise...
Andy Frobig 2 years ago
The wide (probably ultra wide) lens distorts the image
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Rob Chapman 2 years ago (edited)
Any time I see pictures of abandoned theaters like this, the Styx album "Paradise Theatre" starts playing in my head.
#19
Abandoned Restaurant In Victorville, California
Riley Quinn 2 years ago
Ah, nah, I'm not hungry. I'll just breathe deeply until the next stop.
#20
Abandoned Mill, Sorrento, Italy
Peter Shannon 2 years ago (edited)
The valley of the mills. Il Vallone dei Mulini.
Has been ‘restored’ to improve it as a tourist attraction and unfortunately imho lost all its attraction… ZW5pcy5qcGc.jpg 
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/valley-of-the-mills-renovation
#21
Abandoned Chateau, France
Currently, restoration work is being carried out on the castle, with the aim of turning it into a tourist attraction.
Mimi La Souris 2 years ago
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."
Dispatcherqueen 2 years ago
They are still restoring it. I bought a few shares in 2017, and have attended a few fund raisers there. Here is the correct website: https://dartagnans.fr/
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#22
The Largest 'Telephone Box Graveyard' Is Located Near Merstham
Mimi La Souris 2 years ago
"largest" the photo show them all, almost :) Capture-65...a38063.jpg 
David 2 years ago
I wonder if they sell them. I know where one of these is located, in a sort of artsy / bohemian area of town about 20 miles from here. WA state USA so it was never a thing we used, it is just there as a decoration. It appears 'real' rather than something they made so I figure they had to get it from somewhere. If you had a bunch rotting in a field seems like you'd be happy to sell some to Americans who think they look "neat".
Xenon 2 years ago
If they cleaned those up and painted them they could get a fortune for them from Dr. Who fans.
Awesome At Being Autistic 2 years ago
They're phone booths, not police boxes.
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Catharina Geerts 2 years ago
Why don't they recycle the materials? It's not like they are going to be placed back
#23
Abandoned Water Park, Vietnam
Casey Payne 2 years ago
Rescue the Dragon building and put it near the Chicken Church aka Temple of the Mighty Cluck.
#24
The Great Synagogue Of Constanta, Romania
#25
The Abandoned Salto Hotel, Columbia
Andy Frobig 2 years ago
I used to live by 125th and Broadway, if this were in Columbia I would have seen it
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Patricia Smith 2 years ago
Looks pretty abandoned to me. Have the museum peoples still plan to restore the grounds?
#26
Abandoned Hotel On The Edge Of A Lake In Italy
The Fairy Dogmother 2 years ago
My husband and I sat on that balcony in the far right corner years ago… the food was amazing, so sad they closed!
Bill Swallow 2 years ago
Reminds me of the old Ship Hotel in Pennsylvania - Ship-Hotel...39aa35.jpg 
#27
Bethlehem Steel, The Factory That Built NYC
Momo Skarsgård 2 years ago
It's really a nice place to visit, my family live a few mins away from it and it's always cool to walk around there.
Mike Fitzpatrick 2 years ago
I just think of all the thousands of people who worked there in its heyday.
#28
Abandoned Filmtheater, Dresden Germany
Mike Fitzpatrick 2 years ago
Did you get new glasses as well? I can hardly read anything in mine, until I get accustomed.
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#29
Abandoned Snack Machine
Robin DJW 2 years ago
Your comment seems to say that they were ever edible to begin with. I respectfully disagree.
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Mike Fitzpatrick 2 years ago
I love it when we all come together to cut up over things like this rather than quarreling over politics and the like. This is the BP that I love!
M O'Connell 2 years ago
Abandoned some time between 1981 and 1995 as determined by the Cheetos logo. I would put it closer to the end of that span of time based on the machine having an electronic dollar bill acceptor.
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#30
Graveyard Of Disused Ships
Ace 2 years ago
More like scrapyard than graveyard. They'll slowly be dismantled and mostly recycled.
David 2 years ago
Emphasis on slowly. They appear to be backlogged. I saw a video on youtube of slicing out sections of ship with a giant pressure washer. A massive, gigantic pressure washer. I assume it was similar in concept to those parts cutting tables that entrain an abrasive in the water stream.
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its honestly a waste. They should make the two in the middle hotels or smth
The Doom Song 2 years ago
For some odd reason I think you could have an insane game of hide and seek
#31
Abandoned Railroad Tracks In Forest
#32
Abandoned Diner
Xitxarel•lo Panda 2 years ago
Well, we all know you have to reload your weapon before enter there looking for food in your power armor right?
Mike Fitzpatrick 2 years ago
We had one of those relatively near me. It was sold to someone in Missouri who is going to restore it. It sat for years but somebody finally ponied up and the dismantling began this past October.
#33
Abandoned Amusement Park In Japan
#35
Abandoned Villa With A Beautiful View
PeepPeep the duck 2 years ago
This is the one in Japan yeah? With Romanesque statues and things
#36
Frozen In Time Since It Got Abandoned
M O'Connell 2 years ago
Correct. And not abandoned, it is part of "AvtoVAZ Technical Museum" in Tolyatti Russia
Load More Replies... General Anaesthesia 2 years ago (edited)
At first glance it looked like it was powered by galley slaves.
Aleane Schligo 2 years ago (edited)
All I think is that these places are great for the zombie apocalypse
#37
Autopsy Room Of An Old Hospital
Stephanie Did It 2 years ago
The reason they are called operating theaters (theatres) in many places.
Katie Lutesinger 2 years ago
Now here's a perfect location for a scene in a horror movie/game. After trying in vain to escape from the masked maniac, you're knocked unconscious. You awaken from that nightmare into one far worse, as you slowly realise you're bound hand and foot to the autopsy table, the rusted metal giving off a chill like ice against your bare skin. As you struggle in vain you realise the seats all around are occupied by eerily silent masked figures, their empty eyesockets all fixed on you as The Doctor slowly and methodically prepares his tools for tonight's demonstration...
Shark Lady 2 years ago
Yes, it will have been for teaching anatomy to students.
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If you look closely, you can still see the Junior Mint box on the floor.
#38
Great Train Graveyard, Bolivia
Xitxarel•lo Panda 2 years ago
I just asking if someone are Bolivian or went to Bolivia; it's "El salar de Uyuni"?
#39
An Abandoned Psychiatry
#40
Abandoned Theatre
#41
Hotel Belvedere, Furka Pass, Switzerland
Ace 2 years ago
Closed since 2015. Not that far from me, but I've not been that way since before then.
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Alethea Fletcher 2 years ago
My daughter and her BF went there a month ago on a driving holiday from UK to Switzerland...stopped there for photos, and (iirc) lunch. They didn't say if it was picnic or bought there though..🤔
Ace 2 years ago
Plenty of parking, kinda underneath the camera position, There's also an Ice Cave and some other attractions there, IIRC.
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Abandoned Island In Japan
#43
An Abandoned Control Room Of A Coal Fired Power Plant
David 2 years ago
It is, but it's less daunting once you get to know them. I never worked coal but I have operated the control panel in a nuclear power plant. It is kind of like a modern car in that if you have never driven there are lots of buttons and indicators. But if it is your car and you are used to driving it, you don't think about it as much because you are used to using / monitoring the various controls and indicators and so you don't think about it as much. If that makes sense. I assume it is similar for commercial pilots. When I look in a jet's cockpit I think "WHOA!" but they are probably quite used to it.
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An Unusual Subway Station In Chongqing, China
#45
Nature Takes Over This Abandoned Industrial Building But Adds A Rooftop Pool
#46
Abandoned Stadium
The stadium was demolished by the new owners in 2017 in order to clear space for new development of the territory.
Mike Fitzpatrick 2 years ago
That place was awful. Trying to get to a bathroom was, well, you planned ahead.
Load More Replies... Xenon 2 years ago
God what a waste. I'm sure taxpayer money went into building that too. Stuff like this happens a lot at Olympic hosting sites as well, most of the venues just get abandoned.
Xitxarel•lo Panda 2 years ago
Yup, but with exceptions. All the Barcelona 92 stuff is still working for other purposes . ;)
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What do you think ?
Robert F Elliot 2 years ago
These photos are so interesting and utterly depressing. I think I'll go and weep by myself.
Robert F Elliot 2 years ago
How interesting and utterly depressing to see these abandoned relics. I think I'll go away and weep.
The Doom Song 2 years ago
I don't know about anyone else but I'd love to go exploring pretty much all of these places
Robert F Elliot 2 years ago
These photos are so interesting and utterly depressing. I think I'll go and weep by myself.
Robert F Elliot 2 years ago
How interesting and utterly depressing to see these abandoned relics. I think I'll go away and weep.
The Doom Song 2 years ago
I don't know about anyone else but I'd love to go exploring pretty much all of these places
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