Pictures of (mostly) abandoned buildings

[Timberridge]

Interesting site to waste some time on. Pretty creepy pictures of abandoned insane asylums and other places.

http://www.forbidden-places.net/expl...g#.UcNUwdg0XTq

[crashtestdummy]

Interesting site, I love stuff like this.

Here's another one: http://weburbanist.com/2008/10/19/gh...amples-images/
edit, this wasn't the site that I was trying to find, it's got some stuff, but mostly adds

[PassTheDutchie]

This guy does the Detroit area exclusively. I could waste a day perusing...





http://www.jamesgriffioen.net/

[smartyiak]

I think the ones that come out every anniversary or so of the Chernobyl disaster are always creepy:
http://villageofjoy.com/chernobyl-to...d-in-pictures/
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/201...th_annive.html

[BmillsSkier]

This guy does the Detroit area exclusively. I could waste a day perusing...





http://www.jamesgriffioen.net/

I think the ones that come out every anniversary or so of the Chernobyl disaster are always creepy:
http://villageofjoy.com/chernobyl-to...d-in-pictures/
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/201...th_annive.html

Funny, I was just going to say that Detroit is looking a lot like Chernobyl in those pics. Creepy as fuck.

[Buke]

I love this stuff.

In a hotel lobby in Reykjavik I saw a coffee table book about the abandoned farms of iceland (http://www.islandia.is/~nokkvi/page3.htm).

While driving around the island my wife and I saw an abandoned farm down a long desolate gravel road. We drove down, parked the car and wandered around in the old house. It was a barren, windswept area with about a mile of nothingness to the sea. We stood in the old house, looked out at the ocean and felt the bitter wind on our faces while we shivered. I imagined what it would have been like in the winter, trying to survive in that place at a time when you either survived on your own or perished. It really made me appreciate how easy I have things.

[Hugh Conway]

Came across this somewhere:
http://vanishingsouthgeorgia.com/
along the abandoned farm line

[BmillsSkier]

Came across this somewhere:
http://vanishingsouthgeorgia.com/
along the abandoned farm line

That's pretty cool. I love pictures of the old, abandoned south.

Love road tripping via back roads through these kinds of places too. Makes you wonder what happened, where did the people go, and why the fuck did someone think it was appropriate to pick that exact spot in a random field to let their Jalopi rust away?

[Unkajunebug]

Played golf at Grossinger's a few years back. The course is the only thing still going at this once luxury resort. The drive in to the course was something that made me wonder where the fuck am I?

"In 1952, Grossinger’s earned a place in the history of skiing as the first resort in the world to use artificial snow. By the time Jennie died in 1972, the hotel had grown to 35 buildings on 1,200 acres that

served 150,000 guests a year. It had its own airstrip and post office. Eddie Cantor discovered Eddie Fisher here. During his fighting days Rocky Marciano would train at the resort. But in the late 1970s

and 1980s, resorts like Grossinger’s could no longer attract younger guests.

In 1985, the Grossinger descendants sold the property to Hotels International. Ultimately, after aborted renovation attempts, Grossinger’s main hotel and main resort areas closed in 1986. Hotels

International lost the property in foreclosure and currently the property is considered abandoned."

Gubbener Cuomo is pushing to put a Casino here.

[bern43]

Those Detroit pictures are amazing. Reminds me somewhat of Asbury Park, NJ. We'd go over there to ride bikes in the pools at the abandoned hotels.

[the Cock]

Centralia, PA is an interesting walk-around.

Google it if you don't know.

[andrewjesaitis]

Abandoned Island in the Middle of NYC

http://backspac.es/r/62JmCbXLb8/aban...-in-the-middle

[atomicboy]

Thanks for posting. I found the website a year or so ago and went to the abandoned church in Gary Indiana when I had to drive through Indiana. Gary is scary as hell but it was worth it. I love abandoned buildings and factories.

[Timberridge]

keeping with the theme, here's a new one on Detroit--its pretty cool--you can slide over the photo to see before/after.

http://detroiturbex.com/content/ba/feat/industry/2.html