Haunting pics of abandoned cities around the world

Ive searched & cant find treads on this , sorry if there is one or its in the wrong place, I just wanted to share

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I find these pics haunting, yet beautiful. It is proof that Earth will reclaim when we ( humans are gone). The Pripyat, Ukraine ( Chernobyl) most haunting by far for me due to the nature of why its abandoned. Yet earth & nature reclaiming the land & nursing it back to health. I hope we dont see any repeat of this incident, sadly I think we will and maybe not that far off. Nothing is permanent in this forever changing world, if only we could do a better job of looking after what we have.

Coming next, small town USA....
Nice read S&F

The silence is so powerful in these photos. Life will carry on, and nature will do its thing. Some of these are excellent inspiration for paintings.

Thanks for posting.

I find them to be extremely peaceful and beautiful.

Imagine if the entire world was like this if we somehow got wiped out like the dinosaurs before us.

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About that town in France? How it got that way.

Oradour-sur-glane

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Thanks for the link, another horrid day in human existence . Very sad.

Great Pic's OP . Thanks for sharing.

I once visited the town of Famagusta , Cyprus . Now that place is eerie .
People literally dropped what they were doing to flee an impending Turkish invasion .
Once the playground of the rich and famous , Famagusta is now a ghost town , a shell of it's former self .

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Thank you for sharing....Beautiful and eerie at the same time...I love how nature comes in after man's destruction

Wittenoom, Australia (Images by Whinging Pom, CC-SA-2.0 and Five Years, CC-SA-3.0) During the 1950s, Wittenoom was the biggest town in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. But that ended when the town was abandoned in 1966 following health concerns due to asbestos mining. A ghost town today, Wittenoom’s eight remaining residents receive no government services. In June 2007 its townsite status was removed, and its name deleted from maps and road signs. Roads to contaminated areas have been closed, bringing a whole new meaning to the term “ghost town”, with Wittenoom’s residents and their town essentially wiped from existence.


I find this one interesting as the government has has wiped this town off the maps, high profile story over here. Ive seen many a story covering this place & victims of asbestos illness. Find it odd though that you wouldnt find it on maps.

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Haunting pictures.
Nice thread, shame about the cities though.
Personally I like the one in Italy.
There's many towns like that in Spain also.
Thank's.

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Niceone for that link.
Haunting pics aswell.
Straight out of a horror movie.

Very cool. The pics kind of look like what's going to happen to Toykyo while all the citizens keep burying their heads in the sand.

Can we get a radiation check over there that's not funded by the government?


Oops....The radiation is blowing south to Korea. Who cares then. Right?

We're doomed.

Cheers!

detroit might end up in one of these photo sets at some point here. and likely a few others.
great photo ops though! that would be a fun vacation - shooting abandoned towns, buildings.
thx for sharing.

Great Post, magnificent photos.

Next one for the memory:
- Detroit City, formerly known as Motown!!!

absolutely beautiful...I love how people can capture images already seen by some to give a whole new perspective..I have seen chernobyl in a view documentaries but the still images have far more of an impact...Nice job OP..

I often wonder if a day will come that the headline in some alien newspaper is going to read "Planet Earth Found Abandoned"

Very nice, I love these forgotten places.

in the same vein: abandoned japanese amusement park called dreamland (disneyland rip off) www.lovethesepics.com...

another japanese park based on gullivers travels weburbanist.com...

six flags of new orleans (ruined by hurricane katrina) www.lovethesepics.com...

the gullivers travels pic are really creepy. someone started a thread about the abandoned six flags with pics and some really haunting music a while back.

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I hope we dont see any repeat of this incident, sadly I think we will and maybe not that far off.

We already have seen it.

Fukushima.

You know, when I first saw your title, I thought these pictures would actually be of hauntings and other ghostly things, not just pictures of random, abandoned places that really aren't that creepy.

Sorry OP, but no S&F for you. *shrugs* I was hoping for something even just a little interesting.