Chapter 1: Nowadays, the urbanization rate is getting higher and higher. When we look up, we see all kinds of steel and concrete forests. If we see too much, we will inevitably get tired of it. In order to seek excitement and satisfy our desire to explore, a group of people were born: ruins explorers.
Abandoned hotels, abandoned schools, and dilapidated factories are all paradises for ruined enthusiasts. Although these places are a bit desolate and even terrifying...but they have a kind of independent beauty. For example, let’s feel the following:
Bali Pi Bedugul Hotel is a hotel with very regional characteristics, but it was unfinished due to insufficient funds. Over time, various urban legends about it have been circulated, and are also called the Ghost Palace Hotel...
Fort Montgomery on the US-Canada border was built in 1816. At that time, due to measurement errors, the Americans were about to finish repairing, and they found that they had built the fortress on the Canadian side, so they had to give up... Therefore, it is also called the "Error Fortress".
Japan Nara Dreamland, a giant amusement park built in the United States, was once crowded, but after their American father's real Disney came, it turned into a huge ruin...
Japan Hachizhao Royal Hotel, a now-destroyed French Baroque style luxury hotel, built in the 1960s tourism boom, was the largest hotel in Japan when it was built, attracting tourists from all over the country. Due to the slump of tourism on the island, the hotel was finally closed in 2006.
The situation inside the hotel, many moss and plants grew on the floor.
Absolute shopping mall, after the roof collapsed, turned into a pool and became a breeding ground for mosquitoes. So the locals put fish in it to eat the larvae of mosquitoes...
Anhui Huainan Zhigao Shenzhou Happy Park, covering an area of 1,200 acres, with an investment of more than 6 billion yuan. Because the project was suspected of illegal land use, it was abandoned after only one day of operation.
Ten sail shipwrecks, a historic shipwreck that occurred on February 8, 1794, ten ships were ships traveling from Jamaican to the United States and Britain, and were wrecked on the reefs around the eastern end of Grand Cayman .
France, an abandoned railway tunnel, nature took over here again, as beautiful as a scene in a fairy tale...
An abandoned warehouse in Taiwan. After the top of the warehouse collapsed, the plants inside became more and more vibrant...
China, an abandoned millionaire villa community, how can there be thousands of houses and poor people in the world be happy?
Russia, an abandoned village, in the middle is a Byzantine-style church, sparsely populated, young people fled their hometowns for work and a better life, many villages face such a fate1.
Fukushima, Japan, a nuclear accident caused by the 311 earthquake has caused many cars to be abandoned on the spot, and are now gradually swallowed up by the green of nature.
This style looks like the scene in a doomsday disaster film...
Student dormitory of Bennett Girls' High School in New York. This school was founded in 1890 and in 1978 It was closed in 2019, and now it has become ragged, and the plants have slowly climbed up to the roof. It is definitely a good place to stage horror movies...
An abandoned car theater in Nevada, USA. After the end of the Cold War , the nearby military supporting facilities cut more than 50% of their employees, and the theater also went bankrupt.
Bahamas A beached Curtis C-46 commando plane near an island and reef. This place is about 300 kilometers away from Florida, USA. It was once a transit station for the Medellin drug cartel in Colombia. It is said that the crashed plane is an aircraft used by Pablo to transport cocaine.
Tianning Island North Field Airport Airport was the busiest airport in the world during World War II . The little boy and fat man took off from here, and it gradually became abandoned after it was closed in 1947.
A monitoring station built by Americans during the Cold War on Mount Rubel, Germany. As many as 1,500 people worked here. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, it was abandoned, leaving only a piece of rubble and ruins. This bad shape...
htt ml1Palau , a Japanese Zero fighter jet from World War II near Pelleliu Airport,
Mexican , a church wrapped in magma after the eruption of a volcano. The nearby town no longer exists, but the church tower still stands around the lava and is also called "The Hand of God" by the locals.
958, a real estate developer planned the next big city in , California , and even named each street, but the plan went bankrupt, leaving only this huge city "map".
Calgary, Canada, 1988 Winter OlympicsSki jumping auditorium, can be said to be a huge amount of disposable goods...
Indonesia , a "chicken church" built by missionaries in the 1990s, but it was never completed due to lack of funds.
On the streets of Tokyo, an abandoned restaurant, under the embellishment of nature, is like a fairy tale, incompatible with the surrounding environment...
Russian Far East An abandoned scientific research station was built in the former Soviet era and has now become the home of polar bear ...
Chicago, USA, An abandoned house was built in 1888... This style gives people the feeling of "Flying House Travels"...
Japan Absolute bridge in the rain and fog, standing proudly at the broken bridgehead...
The roller coaster on King Mason Island, Ohio, USA, is called "Son of the Beast". When the construction was just completed, it was the highest and fastest wooden roller coaster in the world at that time, and was closed indefinitely due to two major non-fatal accidents.
abandoned ground-effect aircraft , also known as Caspian monster , this ship has built a total of 2 ships, but the second ship has not been completed, the only one lies quietly on the beach, becoming the background for tourists to check in...
Russia Vorkuta, because of the industry Single, the economic situation is deteriorating, and is slowly turning into a ghost town, struggling dyingly...
Turkish Mudurnu Town, a super unfinished project, built hundreds of Disney-style castle villas, and now it has become a ghost village...
Icelandic Þrídrangaviti The lighthouse, often described as the world's most isolated lighthouse, is located on a steep boulder in the sea, and with the installation of modern equipment, it has become uninhabited except for occasional maintenance.
The abandoned mill in the Sorento Mill Valley in Italy was built in the 13th century AD and ran until the beginning of the 20th century. The valley was closed and damp, and many rare ferns grew.
Ballymarkahan Castle, an abandoned tower in the parish of Quinn, County Claire, Ireland, due to the Great Famine of the 19th century, there are abandoned castles and church ruins everywhere in Ireland. You can see one almost every 20 minutes by car.
Railway reserve base in the Perm Krai region of Russia, also known as the steam locomotive cemetery.
In the last century, many retired old trains were regarded as strategic material reserves here, and now it seems that this is their terminal...
County of Sui'an County, Zhejiang Province, also known as Shicheng . In 1959, in order to build Xin'an River Hydropower Station , Shicheng and Hecheng , these two ancient cities with a long history "sinked" into Xin'an River Reservoir, which is the well-known Qiandao Lake .
Bath County, Victoria, Australia, in a bankrupt safari , a great white shark lies quietly in a pond full of formalin...
After the zoo went bankrupt, the kangaroo , koalas and other living animals in the park were all moved to other places, but this shark was left behind and submerged in the dark...
For these places, do you yearn for these places, or will you avoid them?