It is people who make a place – any place – feel more alive. If there were no people, a place would fall to desolation and would wear a look that can be best described as creepy. That creepy look earns the abandoned place a certain degree of notoriety, and people start calling it haunting. But not all haunting places need to scare your wits out; some can be fascinating to visit and photograph.
1. Chemin de fer de Petite Ceinture, France
2. A tree growing through an abandoned piano
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3. Church in St. Etienne, France
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4. The Titanic wreck
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Perhaps one of the most haunted places beneath the sea. The above picture is an illustration.
5. Poveglia Island, Italy
The island was a dumping ground for plague victims during French ruler Napoleon Bonaparte‘s reign.
6. Island Home, Finland
7. Shipwrecks in a sandbar, Bermuda Triangle
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8. Overgrown palace, Poland
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No one would agree that the Polish royalty once resided here.
9. Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California
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Look closely and you’ll notice that the bottom half of the picture looks exactly similar to the top half. That is because of the mirror effect due to flooding. (There are not two lights on the third pillar from left, just one)
10. Chris McCandless’ magic bus, Stampede Trail, Alaska
Bus 142 of Christopher McCandless, an American hitchhiker whose story was told through the movie “Into The Wild”. No need to say more.
11. Turquoise Canal, Venice, Italy.
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12. Victorian-style tree house, Florida, USA
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13. Tree growning around an abandoned bicycle
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14. Staircase to nowhere, Pismo Beach, California
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15. Nara Dreamland, Japan
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Opened in 1961, the park closed in 2006 because of low visitor numbers. Quite a fast decay, must we say!
16. Abandoned mining track, Taiwan
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17. Abandoned Jetty
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18. Bare footprints in an abandoned nuclear reactor
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19. An abandoned waterpark
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20. McDonald’s
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21. Boathouse, Obersee Lake, Germany
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22. Library, Russia
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23. Abandoned hallway
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24. Doll factory, Spain
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25. Methodist church, Gary, Indiana
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26. Movie theater in Detroit, Michigan
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Detroit has recently fallen into despair and many of its historic buildings have fallen into disuse.
27. Church in the snow, Canada
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28. An abandoned church with a few lingering parishioners, Netherlands
29. Blue spiral staircase in a European castle
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30. Soviet naval testing station in Makhachkala, Russia
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31. Church steeple peeking out of a frozen lake, Reschen, Italy
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32. Glenwood power station, New York
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33. Flooded mall
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34. Abandoned theater
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35. Car graveyard, Ardennes, Belgium
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The cars belonged to American soldiers of World War II who found them too costly to ship back home.
36. Spreepark, Berlin, Germany
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37. Driverless bumper cars, Chernobyl, Ukraine
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38. Abandoned hospital bed. Chernobyl, Ukraine
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39. Forgotten Bugattis
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40. Abandoned House in the Woods
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