Ruins-and-Decay
Ross Island Andaman, India – ruins of erstwhile British colony - Beyonder
Post 1945, the island was neglected and it never recovered from the decay which had set in. The banyan trees started taking roots in the building and engulfed the beautiful structures.
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Read article →Pollepel Island - Wikipedia
On June 28, 2015, the public art ... castle ruins. The work consists of seventeen LEDs mounted on metal poles of varying heights, which when lighted for two hours each night are intended to create the appearance of a new constellation. The island is maintained by The Bannerman Castle Trust, a nonpro…
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Read article →Oradour-sur-Glane: Martyred Village | The National WWII Museum | New Orleans
What makes Oradour so unique in Europe are the ruins of the village that stand today just as they were left in 1944. Oradour now serves as a symbol of national remembrance to the atrocities the French faced under Nazi oppression. Dr. Pierre Masfrand, president of the Remembrance Committee of Oradour…
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Read article →The abandoned city of Ani was once the 'City of 1,001 Churches' | National Geographic
The capital of medieval Armenia, ... Church of St. Gregory the Illuminator in Ani was built in 1215 alongside the Akhuryan River, the modern border between Turkey and Armenia....
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Read article →Amid the ruins of the Kennecott mine, a quiet new look at Alaska’s past - Anchorage Daily News
But time has shown that arrested decay works no better in architecture than it does in dentistry (a fact that may have been obvious to the investors eager to sell to the park, two of whom were Anchorage dentists). "In hindsight, you have to restore things a little bit to keep it going," Gibert told …
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Read article →Abandoned Village of Kayakoy - Kayaköy, Turkey
The polar explorer and Nobel Prize-winning Norwegian scientist Fridtjof Nansen was assigned the task of organizing the exchange. In Kayakoy, approximately 350 homes now sit empty and mostly roofless, along with two Greek Orthodox churches and ...
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Read article →Humberstone and Santa Laura Saltpeter Works - Wikipedia
The company attempted to produce ... saltpeter works by 1940. Both works were abandoned in 1960 after rapid decline caused COSATAN to disappear in 1958. At their peak, they housed approximately 4,000 people, with Santa Laura reaching 426 inhabitants and Humberstone exceeding 3,700. In 1970, after be…
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Read article →Henry Ford built 'Fordlandia,' a utopian city inside Brazil's Amazon rainforest that's now abandoned — take a look around
A tire service manager in the US in 1942 compares a tire made of synthetic rubber (left) with one made of latex. AP ... Fordlandia today. Wikimedia Commons ... Ford died in 1947, two years after selling Fordlandia back to Brazil.
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Read article →Wittenoom: The deadliest asbestos filled ghost town in Australia that's been wiped of the map - Abandoned Spaces
Wittenoom has been removed from road signs and maps. Author: Five Years. CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wittenoon continued to prosper and expand. All throughout the 1950s and early 1960s, it was Australia’s only supplier of asbestos.
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Read article →Maunsell Army Sea Forts in England
Rising from the water like rusty invaders out of H.G. Wells, the Maunsell Army Forts in the Thames Estuary are decaying reminders of the darkest days of World War II.
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Read article →Houtouwan: The Chinese Village Swallowed by the Sea of Green
Leaves overlap in dense, shingle-like layers that block light, trap moisture, and create a microclimate between the vine and the substrate. In Houtouwan, the ivy did not simply cover the buildings. It replaced them as the dominant structural element. Walls that have lost their mortar to decades of s…
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Read article →Pyramiden in Pyramiden
The village is home to the ghostly remains of a lost Soviet industrial way of life, literally frozen in time. According to an episode of the television series Life After People, it is estimated that Pyramiden will stand as it is for 500 years ...
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Read article →Pyramiden - Wikipedia
Pyramiden (Norwegian: [pʏrɑˈmîːdn̩]; Russian: Пирами́да, romanized: Piramída, IPA: [pʲɪrɐˈmʲidə]; literally 'The Pyramid') is an abandoned Soviet coal mining settlement on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard which has become a tourist destination.
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Read article →You can now tour a controversial ghost town in Cyprus that was abandoned in the 1970s — take a look inside
Once considered the "French Riviera of Cyprus," the resort locale of Varosha in the city of Famagusta lay abandoned and decaying for decades.
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Read article →Exploring Plymouth, Montserrat's Ash-covered Capital
With abandoned churches, clock towers, and hotels half-buried in ash from a volcanic eruption, Montserrat's capital is a modern-day Pompeii.
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Read article →Learn the history of Kolmanskop, a Namibian ghost town covered in sand | National Geographic
The Namib Desert’s arid conditions ... soon swallow what remains. ... In Kolmanskop, the sand-filled buildings of a former diamond mining town attract tourists by the thousands....
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Read article →Tskaltubo, Stalin’s spa resort: the decay of a Soviet past in Georgia | Georgia | The Guardian
Photograph: Oscar Espinosa · Tskaltubo enjoyed years of prosperity as a jewel of Soviet architecture. But after the collapse of the USSR in December 1991 the sanatoriums were abandoned, and in 1992 people fleeing the war in Abkhazia found refuge ...
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Read article →Drought reveals Welsh village submerged by reservoir in 19th century | CNN
Lake Vyrnwy – a reservoir in Powys, Wales – has evaporated enough to expose the vestiges of the village Llanwddyn. Remnants of the village were last visible during the drought of 1976, local media reports.
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Read article →Craco: The Abandoned Medieval Ghost Town of Italy | Ancient Origins
Today, Craco has been abandoned, plundered, overgrown and is no longer accessible to the public, except by guided tour. While the town has fallen into ruin, several of the buildings, palaces, and churches still remain intact with original features ...
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Read article →Top 5 Abandoned Places in Abkhazia | Urbex & Forgotten Buildings – Carte Urbex
Abkhazia is the most haunting abandoned places destination in the post-Soviet world — a breakaway territory where the 1992–93 war left an entire Black Sea region frozen in conflict dereliction for over 30 years. Sukhumi's bombed-out Council of Ministries building, the Eshera Sports Complex with its …
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Read article →Preserving Decay: Exploring the Ghost Town of Bodie, California | National Trust for Historic Preservation
Bodie is preserved in a state of "arrested decay" -- meaning everything stays just as it was when the abandoned town was acquired by the state parks department in 1962.
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Read article →Scientists Are Trying to Save Japan's Abandoned 'Battleship Island' | National Geographic
Beginning in 2011, Takafumi Noguchi ... shape, to measure the deterioration of the reinforced concrete buildings. Their ultimate goal is saving them. Jutting out of the sea, Hashima’s crammed collection of apartment buildings ...
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Read article →The Buzludzha Conservation Project: The Choice to Take Action | 1 International Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works
The results from the research, conservation planning, adaptive reuse study, and the emergency stabilization of the wall mosaics were presented at the international conference, In Restauro: Post-War Heritage of Art and Architecture in Central and Eastern Europe – Integrated Approaches to Dissonant Mo…
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Read article →I Photographed Abandoned Buildings of the Rust Belt for 10 Years | by Jax Rinaldi | Full Frame | Medium
I Photographed Abandoned Buildings of the Rust Belt for 10 Years Chrono-ruins, ghost archives, and mourning the golden age of urban exploration Photography saved me, and the abandoned places I became …
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