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.
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#2 Abandoned Cruise Ship
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#3 An Abandoned Mansion In The Irish Forests
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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 Abandoned Swimming Pool
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#5 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.
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#6 Abandoned Tunnel In France
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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 Train
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#8 Abandoned Chateau In The Forest
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#9 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.
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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 Theater
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#11 Abandoned Restaurant In Victorville, California
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#12 Abandoned Mill, Sorrento, Italy
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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 Faded Glory, Italy
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#14 A Mental Health Hospital In Scotland
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#15 The Largest 'Telephone Box Graveyard' Is Located Near Merstham
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#16 Graveyard Of Disused Ships
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#17 An Abandoned House In Portugal
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#18 Library Inside An Abandoned 19th Century Victorian Mansion
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#19 Lighthouse Staircase
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#20 Abandoned Castle In Ireland
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#21 Abandoned Filmtheater, Dresden Germany
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#22 Abandoned Water Park, Vietnam
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#23 Abandoned Diner
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#24 Ticino, Switzerland
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#25 This Casino In Romania
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#26 The Abandoned Salto Hotel, Columbia
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#27 Abandoned Chateau, France
Currently, restoration work is being carried out on the castle, with the aim of turning it into a tourist attraction.
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#28 The Great Synagogue Of Constanta, Romania
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#29 Abandoned Villa With A Beautiful View
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#30 Abandoned Island In Japan
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#31 Abandoned Hotel On The Edge Of A Lake In Italy
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#32 End Of The Line
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#33 Great Train Graveyard, Bolivia
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#34 An Abandoned Psychiatry
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#35 Abandoned Amusement Park In Japan
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#36 Abandoned Snack Machine
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#37 Bethlehem Steel, The Factory That Built NYC
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#38 Abandoned Stadium
The stadium was demolished by the new owners in 2017 in order to clear space for new development of the territory.
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#39 Autopsy Room Of An Old Hospital
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#40 Frozen In Time Since It Got Abandoned
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#41 An Unusual Subway Station In Chongqing, China
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#42 Abandoned Railroad Tracks In Forest
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#43 Abandoned Theatre
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#44 Nature Takes Over This Abandoned Industrial Building But Adds A Rooftop Pool
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#45 Hotel Belvedere, Furka Pass, Switzerland
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#46 An Abandoned Control Room Of A Coal Fired Power Plant
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