Ghost Towns / Abandoned places

[Bearded_Menace]

I love visiting places like these. It always gives me this haunting nostalgic and surreal feeling. Combine that with the swirling mass of questions that go about in my head, and you get one memorable afternoon.

 

[domshooter]

try looking up the town of Bodie in the Sierra Nevada mountains, CA.

it was a silver mining town back in the day. eventually the silver ran out, and people just up and left. if you go there, you can see place settings on dinner tables, items still on the shelves in the general store and a bunch of stuff just like that.

kinda creepy

 

[vodkazvictim]

MockBa? Lolski.

 

[Baill Inneraora]

I thought this thread was about Northeast Ohio.

 

[Mr_A]

Centralia, Pennsylvania
http://www.xydexx.com/modernruins/img/centralia10.jpg
http://www.squidoo.com/real-life-horror-story

Humberstone and Santa Laura, Chile
http://www.worldofstock.com/slides/TCH1023.jpg

Hashima Island, Japan
http://technoccult.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/abandoned-city-5.jpg

Central Michigan Depot in Detroit
http://www.infrastructurist.com/wp-...hall-michigan-central-depot-by-radiospike.png

*don't mix abandoned places with lost cities and empires*, as I have read in here

 

[The Paulinator]

MockBa Metro
Stepnogorsk
Abandoned "campus" tho' to me it looks like a gulag
Bannerman's Island (a former weapons dealer's island)

 

[Lost999.]

Ive been to a Ghosttown called Thurmond located in Southern West Virginia. It wasnt creepy or anything but neat to look at. Pretty much everything is still there all the houses, the church, bank ect.

 

[The Paulinator]

For WWII History enthusiasts, Wake Island is nearly uninhabited too....few permanent residents and some contractors rolling in and out

 

[The Paulinator]

WebUrbanist
Quite a few galleries here

 

[GodsEmbryo]

WebEcoist - Places abandoned due to disasters :
http://webecoist.com/2010/04/15/ghost-towns-places-abandoned-due-to-disasters-pics/

A journey through Bodie Ghost Town by Ray Soemarsono :
http://www.pbase.com/zeroscan/bodie

Fotosearch - Ghost Town Stock photo's :
http://www.fotosearch.com/photos-images/ghost-town.html

TIME - Ordos, China, a modern ghost town :
http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1975397,00.html

FuckyeahGhostTowns :
http://fuckyeahghosttowns.tumblr.com/