Abandoned buildings thread - Cities are better without people in them

[The News Crews]

Just going to dump all the images I currently have

 

[Fishnumm]

the taiwanese pod citys are cool

 

[The Cringe Connoisseur]

I used to do urbex all the time when I was younger, there's just something about being surrounded by urban decay and the musty smell of nature reclaiming a structure that's so relaxing and peaceful to me. Like it makes my problems seem less serious as in the end everything we do is forgotten and reclaimed. I'd love to get back into it.

 

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Wet-Dry World (Super Mario 64)

 

[oldTireWater]

Very cool pictures. Sadly, they all look AI generated to me now. Nothing can be believed.

 

[REGENDarySumanai]

Ghost towns are ripe for this, alongside Chernobyl.

 

[The News Crews]

Very cool pictures. Sadly, they all look AI generated to me now. Nothing can be believed.

For what it's worth, I remember saving those before the AI boom, plus some of the filenames have the location

Ghost towns are ripe for this, alongside Chernobyl.

I will never forgive Putin for invading. Now I will never visit Chernobyl

 

[TheLostMarxBrotherFucko]

I love this subject but it saddens me also. So much wasted effort and potential. People like me will never be able to afford a house of my own. So it sucks seeing beautiful rot away.

 

[Sexy Senior Citizen]

The jungle always waits beyond the walls. Civilization can beat it back time and again, but it will always be there, ready to reclaim what civilization has taken.

 

[The News Crews]

 

[DickMain]

Do some street view along the highways of Montana. You'll find a ton of abandoned farmsteads dotting the fields and roads.

 

[TakeSoma]

This website has a ton of them.

A sample from my country:



Original link: https://www.obsidianurbexphotography.com/residential/dictatorship-palace-portugal/

 

[jeanblunt]

The jungle always waits beyond the walls. Civilization can beat it back time and again, but it will always be there, ready to reclaim what civilization has taken.

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is the 4th image that billy woods album cover?

 

[El Gordo Ramsay Sex Dwarf]

Great thread OP. I visited that I.M. Cooling Tower a few years ago, along with the blast furnace in Liege before that got destroyed. Had to walk along an active rail track to get to it, but got some lovely sunset photos at the top of the furnace tower. Apparently some weeks before, Albanian scrap thieves had a gun fight with Belgian police there.

The cooling tower is in Charleroi, the Belgian version of Detroit and the power station on the other side of the river to it had been almost completely stripped by gyppos, but made for good photos and the only way to get to the control room was parkour. All part of an "Urbex Safari" you can book.

Heading to Poland in May for the Riese complex, landing pad for "Die Glocke" and abandoned bunkers and hospitals.

 

[Crypt Kicker]

Oh my those.. those spaces! They're... They're LIMINAL!!! AHHH SAVE ME NIGGERMAN!

 

[We Are The Witches]

"The Deadest Mall in America Part 2 When There's No More Room in Hell..." by Silent Rob.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swQrOSNHHg8

 

[Antony_the_spin_god21]

Few years ago I went to Cyprus with some of my friends had a really good time there, one of the places we visited was Varosha, Famagusta in the northern part of Cyprus which looks like something out of dying light

These photos are from google, I wish I could share some of the photos I have taken but the phone that I was using at that time is now broken with no way of accessing them

 

[Sexy Senior Citizen]

is the 4th image that billy woods album cover?

No. All of these are from Detroit.

 

[Chongqing]

I think the second to the last one is Assad's coastal house in Latakia.

 

[The News Crews]

Oh my those.. those spaces! They're... They're LIMINAL!!! AHHH SAVE ME NIGGERMAN!

Completely different things.
These are "Liminal spaces"

The whole point of them is to be dreamlike and strange. Meanwhile abandon buildings are just that. It's cool to see how nature retakes what is available
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I'd highly recommend anyone interested in Urban exploration to check out the Chinese ghost cities. Long story short, because of how the economy is in China, real estate is one of the safest and most profitable investments you can make. This has caused several companies to just pump out hollow buildings for people to buy and just sit on.