The Derelict World

[Neon Ignition]

<insert Zoolander derelict joke here>

It's always been fascinating to see areas of the world where people haven't demolished a place or object that's no longer required, they've simply walked away from it and never returned leaving that place or item to be ravaged by the passing of time. Sometimes it's because the money isn't there to remove it, sometimes plans to rebuild fall through and sometimes there's no known explanation for it being there.

Even if it's in some spam advert at the side of a page alongside 'you won't believe what he did next' or 'she had no idea she had a camera on her' eye rolling adverts, the overgrown, rusted hallways and caverns and structures tucked away in the world are eye catching.

Maybe you know of somewhere or something like that you've seen yourself of have seen images you liked before.

Share your discoveries of the derelict world!

[Dogg Thang]

There is an old photography website called Dark Passage, now seemingly split into two parts: http://darkpassage.com/ Check the old stuff in particular. Some haunting places in there.

[QualityChimp]

I'm also a big fan of derelict sites.
Fascinating to know the history.

Before I mention some sites, I have to get these two videos out of the way:

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Poveglia Island: Like Hell, But in Italy. The secret Italian island where Black Plague sufferers were sent to die.

Spree Park. After it closed, the owner tried to smuggle drugs in the magic carpet ride! It appears in the film "Hanna".

Kolmanskop, Namibia. Abandoned town after the diamond rush moved on.

San-Zhi, Taiwan. Fatalities during construction lead to people saying they were cursed and funding was pulled.

Pripyat, Ukraine. Call of Duty Modern Warfare!

Maunsell Sea & Air Forts. Oil rig-like defense structures.

Wonderland Amusement Park, Beijing, China. A half-finished Disney castle stands amongst the unfinished ruins.

[Colin]

Funny this thread should turn up as I've developed a bit of an interest in urban exploration recently. I especially love huge country houses that have been left to rot, most likely abandoned due to the prohibitive costs of maintaining them. It's amazing how many of them are actually out there.

[fuse]

Urban exploration is one of those hobbies I'd love to pursue, but I'm ultimately too unfit and far too much of a klutz/wuss to go for. I remember getting talking to a girl who was into it one time, and although she loved it, she did describe some narrow escapes that just made me think in her shoes I'd end up falling off / under something, getting trapped and injured and unlikely to be able to do anything about it.

However, we were bumbling around my area for the 'BEAT' (Borough of Ealing Art Trail) this weekend just gone, and one of the spots we popped into had a lot of work from a photographer, Andrew Meredith, who'd spent some time on a photography project on an abandoned, Japanese mining island - Hashima. There's some great photos in there!

[Neon Ignition]

I always wanted to do the Manchester Underground tour but by the time we were able to they'd stopped running it





Another theme park and local option, the still standing Camelot Theme Park







That and the needlessly disused Manchester Mayfield Railway Station

[QualityChimp]

I recently watched a video on Amazon Prime, bizarrely enough, about a guy who survived cancer and pushes himself more than he used to and he climbs into Camelot.

He finally gets in and mooches around, with dramatic music every time he thinks there's a guard coming, wimps out of ascending the coaster to the top, goes to sleep then leaves.

It's a lot less dramatic than the background music would suggest.

[Colin]

There's an abandoned theme park up in Scotland as well, Loudoun castle -







And that's not to mention the epic ruin it sits in the grounds of -

[dvdx2]

This a cracking site, for uk based sites

https://www.28dayslater.co.uk

Detroit is a fantastic location for urban exploration- this book is my pride and joy and I have never seen higher quality pictures

http://www.marchandmeffre.com/detroit

[Neon Ignition]

Some internet sourced lookers:

IM Cooling Tower, Belgium







Maunsell Sea Forts, England



And in their prime:




Holland Island, America




Though in 2010 this happened:

[Neon Ignition]

Some more:

The House of Bulgarian Communism, Bulgaria






Nara Dreamland Park, Japan










And for the full Uncharted effect:

Abandoned Mill, Italy

[Atticus]

Love the old fairground stuff.

[fishbowlhead]

That castle is epic [MENTION=9865]Colin[/MENTION] where abouts is it in Scotland?

[QualityChimp]

Love the old fairground stuff.

There's something extra strange about somewhere that was once bustling with people having fun now left empty.

Another couple of bonkers ones:
Gulliver's Kingdom theme park in Japan had a load of giant exhibitions, the focal piece was a giant Gulliver, tied to the ground by Lilliputians.
It was closed when it had low visitors, attributed to it's location to Aokigahara forest, which is the second most popular suicide spot in the world after the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco and the nearby village of Kamikuishki, which was home to the terrorist organisation Aum Shinrikyo.

[Colin]

That castle is epic @Colin where abouts is it in Scotland?

Near Galston in Ayrshire.