Where the most beautiful and scary abandoned pearls are hidden. Abandoned places - a world without people
Abandoned and flooded barn near Great Bend, Cottonwood County, Minnesota, USA.
The tree grows at the very top of the chimney. The photo was taken in an abandoned factory yard in Luca, on the outskirts of the city of Asuncion, Paraguay.
Swings frozen in tall grass at a playground in the US town of Scenic, State South Dakota. The picture was taken on the territory of the school that closed in the late 1990s.
Dinosaurs and fiberglass swans in Berlin's abandoned Spreepark amusement park.
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Empty Central Train Station in Detroit, Michigan.
abandoned by all Catholic Church Martyrs of Uganda, in Detroit (a city in the northern United States, in the state of Michigan).
Unfinished apartment buildings in Toledo Provence near Madrid, Spain. The economic crisis has turned this heavenly place, which was supposed to be a home for young couples and their children, into one of the most visible on this Earth.
Flagpoles (racks on which the flag is raised) near the pool filled with water and various garbage, empty since the XXVIII summer, held in the capital of Greece, Athens, from August 13 to 29, 2004. A little later (in November), Greece calculated the cost of hosting the Olympics, which amounted to 8.954 billion euros (about $ 11.2 billion).
Abandoned Olympic sports complex(OAKA) in Greece. For the first time, representatives of 201 countries participated in the Games, including East Timor (a state in South-East Asia) and Kiribati (a Pacific state located in Micronesia and Polynesia). Also, having missed the Olympics in Sydney, representatives of
Hallway of the Pennhurst Psychiatric Hospital in Spring City, Pennsylvania. This place has been deserted for over 20 years.
A lone boat on the cracked, shallow land of Xieshan, which is part of Poyang Lake in Jiangxi Province, east China.
Asphalt road surrounded by weeds. The photo was taken in the unfinished settlement of Coolidge, Arizona, USA as a result of the crisis.
A neglected monument to Vladimir Ilyich Lenin against the backdrop of an abandoned Soviet factory in Tbilisi, Georgia.
A deserted farmhouse can be seen in the Osoyoos Valley, British Columbia(province in western Canada).
Abandoned and rusting Packard Motor plant in Detroit, Michigan.
A lonely gangway on the road near the airport in the city of Sirte, Libya.
Jamesburg Science Station, in the Colchagua Valley (Cachagua), located near the town of Carmel, California. The station from which Apollo 11 launched (July 16-24, 1969). Residents then landed on the surface of the moon for the first time, taking several photographs.
Las Vegas Strip, Nevada.
The Royal Navy ship Belfast was lost in thick fog on the River Thames. The photo was taken early in the morning.
Abandoned police station in Memphis, Tennessee, vacant for 30 years.
Houses buried in the sand on the beach in Atafona. Located in a delta in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro, the sandy city of Atafona is slowly sinking into the ocean as rising temperatures speed up the erosion process.
Homes in Gary, Indiana.
The sun sets behind an empty beachhead at Camp Adder, which was the starting point for the last US military convoy to leave the country near Nasiriyah, Iraq.
homeless dog running around main square Villa Sant'Angelo in Abruzzo. The photo was taken in one of the regions of Italy, where a catastrophic earthquake occurred in April 2009.
Empty for 80 years, an Indian colonial mansion at McCluskieganj, about 40 miles northwest of Ranchi.
Destroyed buildings on a Tripoli street in central Misrata, Libya.
Abandoned construction of the New Benghazi project, Libya. Hundreds of concrete mixers, cranes and forklifts sit silently on a huge construction site among the gray buildings that were left unfinished due to the outbreak of hostilities.
The central railway station in Sofia is empty during the strike of railway workers in Bulgaria.
The main gate of an abandoned collective farm in the village of Komoshtitsa (Komoshchitsa), located a hundred kilometers north of Sofia (the capital of Bulgaria).
Kitten on a deserted street in Pelléas de Abajo, northwestern Spain.
Abandoned buildings and islands, ghost towns and ruins of haunted castles - all these places have an interesting and sometimes sad story that tells how nature and the elements transform everything that man created, but could not save.
1. Christ of the Abyss at San Fruttuoso, Italy
Christ from the Abyss - the name of the bronze statue of Jesus Christ, installed on seabed mediterranean sea, in the bay of San Fruttuoso, between the communes of Camogli and Portofino in the Italian Riviera. The monument was installed in the water on August 22, 1954 at a depth of approximately 17 meters, the height of the statue itself is 2.5 meters in height. Similar statues, both copies of this one and its variations, are installed in other parts of the world: under water, in museums and churches, also bearing the name "Christ from the Abyss".
The sculptor Guido Galletti, having created the statue, brought to life the idea of the Italian diver Duilio Marchante. In addition to religious aspects, "Christ from the Abyss" is intended to perpetuate the memory of the first Italian scuba diver Dario Gonzatti, who died at this place in 1947. The sculpture represents Christ, whose eyes and hands are directed upwards, to the surface of the sea and the sky above it.
The statue "Christ from the Abyss" is very popular among divers. Over the 49 years of its existence, the statue managed to become thoroughly overgrown with algae, and as a result of an unsuccessfully thrown anchor, it lost one arm. In 2003, it was decided to remove the sculpture from the water, clean it and restore it. A new pedestal was installed at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea, and on July 17, 2004, "Christ from the Abyss" was successfully installed in its original place.
There are many places on Earth whose beauty could not save them from inevitable "death". Some Amazing places have been abandoned by people for several reasons, be it health hazards, conflicts, unpleasant neighborhoods, or lack of economic gain. Be that as it may, today these abandoned parks, castles and cities attract us with a different kind of beauty - the attraction of forgotten and abandoned places in which history has frozen.
Kingdom of Gulliver, Japan
Gulliver's Kingdom was an amusement park inspired by the classic story Gulliver's Travels. Unfortunately, Gulliver's Kingdom had its own set of insurmountable obstacles. Not only was the park built next to Japan's infamous "suicide forest," but it was too close to the headquarters of the Aum Shinrikyo cult responsible for terrorist act 1995. The park was opened in 1998. Due to low attendance, he was forced to close in 2001.
Mirnaya Diamond Mine, Russia
This mine is a former diamond mine located in the city of Mirny, in Eastern Siberia. At the time of its closure in 2004, the shaft was 525 meters deep and 1,200 meters in diameter, making it the second largest excavated hole in the world. The mine hole is so huge that air space above it is closed to helicopters due to several incidents in which helicopters were "sucked in" by the downward airflow.
Vila Itororo building, Brazil
Created by the architect Francisco de Castro, this building was intended to become a monument to the history of the city of São Paulo, since Castro built it from parts of the destroyed historical buildings. Vila Itororo was built in the first decades of the 20th century, but remained unused. Today they are talking about the transformation of the building.
Chateau Miranda, Belgium
This once grandiose Neo-Gothic castle is also known as Château de Noisy. Built in the 19th century, Chateau Miranda has remained empty and completely abandoned since 1991, because the costs of its repair and maintenance turned out to be unbearable for the owners. Despite this, the owners did not want to give the castle to the municipality and left it empty and crumbling brick by brick.
Abandoned windmill in Sorrento, Italy
In the city of Sorrento near Naples there is deep canyon, also known as the "Valley of the Mills". There, among the dense vegetation, an old mill, which has been grinding grain since the beginning of the 10th century, is almost completely hidden. The mill had to be abandoned due to dam problems around 1866. Today, this verdant, abandoned site is a popular attraction in the city of Sorrento.
Hashima, Japan
This concrete abandoned island an hour from the port of Nagasaki is also known by the nickname "cruiser" or "warship".
Mitsubishi bought the island in 1890 to use it as a base for underwater coal mining. Japan's first 9-story reinforced concrete building was built on the island back in 1917. These architectural innovations were needed to accommodate the huge number of workers as Hashima Island became the most densely populated place on earth.
The island was deserted in 1974 due to a decline in coal production and the decline of the coal industry in general.
Underwater statue "Christ from the Abyss", Italy
If you dive 18 meters deep in the waters Italian Riviera off the coast of San Fruttuoso, you will find a submerged bronze statue of Jesus Christ with his eyes looking up.
"Christ from the Abyss" is a two and a half meter high statue that was created by sculptor Guido Galetti and deliberately sunk in the Mediterranean Sea on August 22, 1954. In 2003, Christ was taken out of the abyss for repairs, cleared of sediment, erected on a new pedestal and lowered into the sea again.
Village of Villa Epecuen, Argentina
Villa Epecuen was a popular tourist village in Argentina, built on the shores of Lago Epecuen, a lake whose salt levels are 10 times higher than those of the ocean. Thanks to the lake and its therapeutic effect, the village has become very densely populated.
However, on November 10, 1985, high humidity and continuous rainfall caused the volume of water to rise and the dam to burst. By 1993, the entire tourist town was flooded under 10 meters of water. Today the water has receded, but the village has remained abandoned.
City Hall Subway Station, New York, USA
This station was called one of the most beautiful metro stations in the world, but today it is a ghost. City Hall station was opened in 1904. It was designed by the architect Rafael Gustavino. The abandoned station is unusually elegant and is on the list of the first New York subway stations. City Hall was closed on December 31, 1945 due to the impossibility of expanding its platform.
Abandoned amusement park, Berlin, Germany
Headless dinosaurs, rusty roller coaster and a Ferris wheel frozen in time, all this is the Spreepark, an abandoned amusement park in Berlin. Between 1969 and 2001, this place was the only theme park of its kind in all of Berlin, as well as in all of East Germany. During the communist era, the park flourished, attracting up to one and a half million visitors a year.
Abandoned residential complex, Taiwan
This unfinished and abandoned building complex was to become a residential area of the city of Keelung in northeastern Taiwan. Unfinished residential buildings stood for a long time as gaping abysses of concrete and were left to absorb the ubiquitous greenery. According to some reports, the unfinished residential complex was going to be completely demolished.
Abandoned railway depot, Poland
The Polish city of Czestochowa entered the 20th century as one of the leading industrial centers Poland. He owes his success to the opening in 1846 of the Warsaw-Vienna railway, which connected the city with the rest of Europe. Nowadays Częstochowa is popular tourist place attracting millions of visitors.
Many of them also want to see this weedy train graveyard and abandoned depot. It is very reminiscent of a post-apocalyptic work of art. But this is actually quite a real place.
City of Pripyat, Ukraine
When the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant occurred in 1986, a vast area turned out to be radioactively dangerous. The Soviet government carried out the evacuation of almost a hundred thousand people living near the disaster zone. The now abandoned city of Pripyat became the center of this zone.
After the Chernobyl disaster, residents had two days to leave the city. They were allowed to take with them only documents, a minimum of necessary personal items and some food. Everything else was abandoned and left to lie in complete oblivion.
Mesen Castle, Belgium
Mesen Castle was built near the village of Led in Belgium, it is surrounded by seven hectares of forested area. The castle was destroyed and rebuilt several times. After 1796, it passed from the hands of the Bette family to other owners and became first a distillery, then a sugar refinery, a tobacco processing plant, and subsequently a closed boarding school for girls from high society.
Buzludzha, Bulgaria
From a distance, this building looks like an abandoned flying saucer that has landed on top of a hill. Buzludzha is the name of not only the top of the mountain, but also the building of the Communist Party of Bulgaria, built in 1981. After the fall of communism, the Bulgarian government left this building abandoned and it became popular with tourists.
Naraland, Japan
The Naraland theme park was built in 1961. The creators of the park were inspired by Disneyland in California and they sought to recreate the same atmosphere, even copying the main attractions.
The park had to close on 31 August 2006 due to a lack of visitors. All entertainment, constructions and restaurants were left in the park, without disassembling, they stand there to this day, which gives the impression of an eerie surreal landscape.
Ryugen Hotel, North Korea
The Ryugen Hotel is built in the shape of a pyramid in the center of Pyongyang. This is perhaps one of the strangest landmarks in the world and the most notorious failure among modern construction projects.
Praised during its construction as the most high hotel in the world, Rügen has not yet received a single guest, despite the impressive age of the structure. The hotel is still uninhabited and not completed.
Abandoned amusement park, Pennsylvania, USA
American parks are a creepy place when completely abandoned. Their rotting and rusting frames and structures of abandoned rides are oppressively beautiful.
Despite the fact that the amusement park is no longer used and has fallen into disrepair, it cannot be called completely abandoned - a few people still live there.
Planet Earth is rich in places with beautiful natural attractions, where the picturesque landscape is complemented by exotic fauna. There are no less places with architectural, cultural and historical monuments. However, among admirers of exotic tourism there is a certain category of travelers who prefer to visit the most terrible abandoned places, several of which have become objects of a kind of pilgrimage.
Abandoned and dangerous places to visit
Start reviewing attractions that can be considered as the most creepy places in the world , follows from the city of Pripyat , which after the catastrophic accident at the Chernobyl power plant in 1986 turned into dead city. The surrounding thirty-kilometer zone represents real danger for the life of people who wandered into it because of the high concentration of radionuclides.
As you know, "forbidden fruit is always sweet", and today there are many tourists who have made exploring this area their hobby. Despite regularly appearing proposals to visit the exclusion zone in groups, the presence of strangers in it is officially prohibited and dangerous to health. IN popular culture a whole branch of tourism has appeared in Chernobyl zone. This is first of all:
- game Universe "S.T.A.L.K.E.R.";
- a book series with the same name "STALKER";
- series documentaries- "We", "Chernobyl Bell" and "Pripyat";
- feature films "Atomic Zone Ranger" (Belarus), "Forbidden Zone" (USA), "Decay" (USSR);
- comedy-fantasy "Road movie" series "Chernobyl. Exclusion Zone” and the Ukrainian mini-series “Moths”.
No less depressing impression is left located at the foot of fujisan stratovolcano (japanese island Honshu) "Forest of Suicides" - Aokigahara. This forest area is not visited by pickers of mushrooms and berries, which grow here in large quantities. Aokigahara is a cult place of Japanese suicides. The first self-hanging in the forest occurred in 1950 and, according to psychoanalytic experts, the reason for this was the reading of the book “The Black Sea of Trees” (by Seiko Matsumoto).
In 1970, the Government of Japan recognized the Aokigahara forest, where 50 to 100 people voluntarily die every year, as a national problem, and a special police unit was created to clear the array from uninvited guests.
Located in the Avar basin in northern Ethiopia, which has a second name - "Hell on Earth", can rightfully be categorized as the most terrible abandoned places in the world. The habitat of the Sahara will seem paradise compared to the landscape and atmosphere of the Danakil desert. Travelers in this area face the following risks:
- thermal shock from ambient temperature exceeding +50.0°;
- the probability of stepping on a smoking bump and waking up a volcano,
- inhale sulfur fumes;
- stumble and swim in an oil lake or a puddle of sulfuric acid.
Despite the high danger, there are many lovers extreme tourism wishing to visit this eerie corner. True, only one visit to the Danakil Desert and staying on its territory for a day can shorten the traveler's stay on Earth by ten years. Tour operators, describing all the "charms" of this terrible place, forget to mention the eternally hungry semi-wild tribes "Afar", the purpose of which is the armed struggle for food and water. Accompanying guides cannot exclude a meeting with them.
Beautiful abandoned places of our planet
In addition to scary and dangerous territories, there are also magnificent parks, on the territory of which the foot of a person rarely steps. These locations were once inhabited and attracted many tourists. Over time by economic reasons or due to natural disasters, they have lost their charm and are now open to the public. However, there is no mass interest of travelers, despite the fact that the areas remained the objects of close attention of lovers of everything unusual.
The category of beautiful, but abandoned places in the world, first of all, should include located in Taiwan city of San Zhi . Developed in the late seventies of the last century, the project resort town, as conceived by investors, was to become one of the most attractive places for tourists. However, after the construction was completed, all potential customers were frightened by living in houses made of glass and plastic, and the residential area turned into a ghost town. Today, its popularity is growing as unusual architecture attracts connoisseurs of the exotic.
