These
haunting photos of our decaying towns and cities give us a unique
perspective on what the world could look like after humans.
A bathroom inside the largest industrial Rayon plant in the United States, which nature has reclaimed. [Ohio, USA]
The beautiful Spanish-Gothic interior of the United Artists
Theater in Detroit lays sadly unutilised and decaying. [Michigan, USA]
The town of Namie, once home to 20,000 people, lies inside
the exclusion zone created by the Fukushima incident. The lights are
left on to maintain hope that residents will eventually be allowed to
return. [Japan]
A chemistry lab remains unused at an abandoned university. [Belgium]
Cointe Observatory is a product of its time, shut down and
left abandoned when scientific advances left it obsolete. [Liege,
Belgium]
Street cars waste away at the Vintage Electric Streetcar
Company depot, founded in 1986, it now acts as a graveyard.
[Pennsylvania, USA]
Since it was abandoned in 1982, this pool at The University
of Rochester has become a dumping ground for old chairs and desks. [New
York, USA]
The occupants of a greenhouse, abandoned for nearly 10 years, erupt from their pots. [Ohio]
An abandoned hotel is slowly but surely reclaimed by nature. [Japan]
An auditorium of a long stagnant elementary school, which hasn’t seen students in many years. [Pennsylvania]
An abandoned home on North Brother Island, New York City. In
1885, the island was used as a dumping ground for people with smallpox
and typhoid fever and later, a rehab center and prison. It has been
abandoned since 1963.
The Woodward Avenue Presbyterian Church in Detroit lays in disrepair after years of neglect. [Michigan, USA]
Kelenföld Power Plant, built in 1927 and opened in 1929, has been abandoned since the fall of the USSR. [Budapest, Hungary]
Built in 1933, this hotel once served a popular ski resort
in the Catskill region of New York. Abandoned since 1998, it has been
exposed to harsh winter weather followed by thawing in the summer.
[South Fallsburg, New York, USA]
Once a popular holiday spot, Grossinger’s Resort now has new inhabitants - weeds. [Liberty, New York, USA]
A dilapidated Fun House at an old amusement park. [Chippewa Lake, Ohio, USA]
Lemoniz Nuclear Power Plant is left to nature after an
opposition group attacked the plant a series of times during the 1970s,
killing several workers and fighters. [Vizcaya, Spain]
An abandoned tram station is taken over by graffiti. [Sydney, Australia]
Billingham House has been abandoned since 1995, with a legal
battle preventing this decaying wreck from being demolished.
[Billingham, UK]
The Philadelphia Metropolitan Opera House has a thick layer
of dust, no performance has taken place here for a while. [Philadelphia,
USA]
Morning sunlight shines into the decrepit Arbed Steel Works. [Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg]
Amid the scramble to leave Detroit, the staff of this library left everything - including the books. [Michigan, USA]
This Salon has been untouched since the 1980s, when people
started leaving the town of Bodie in mass. A thick layer of dust covers
everything and beer bottles remain as they were the night before they
closed their doors. [California, USA]
A forgotten warehouse of collector's vehicles collects dust. [Detroit, Michigan, USA]
Ransacked lock boxes line the floor of an abandoned safe at
the National Bank of Detroit. Whoever owned it wanted to get out of town
in a hurry. [Michigan, USA]
Ivy is slowly taking over an abandoned home on 17th & Jefferson, soon, it will be unrecognisable. [Louisville, Kentucky]
Gunkanjima is an island off the coast of Japan. It was
deserted when the coal industry took a turn for the worse. Now, the once
bustling town is a decaying wreck of its former self. [Japan]
Presidio Modelo, a prison on Isla de la Juventud built to house prisoners during the height of communist rule. [Cuba]
This unused freight station in Duisburg, Germany, was the
sight of the 2010 Love Parade, in which 21 people died as a result of
extreme overcrowding. The area, which was already abandoned, has been
left untouched to remember those who died. [Duisburg, Germany]
Weeds grow from the cracks of an abandoned motel. [Texas]
Murray’s Pub in Wilkes-Barre, a shadow of the lively meeting place it once was. [Pennsylvania]
A school gymnasium in Detroit with a warped floor as a result of heavy water damage. [Michigan, USA]
Abkhazia is an area of land carved out during the war
between Georgia and Russia in 1992. Heightened tensions meant that much
of the former population fled, leaving areas like this railway station
completely abandoned in the exodus. [Abkhazia]
Chanute Air Force Base was quickly established following the
entry of the United States into World War I and once again served the
air force as a training camp during World War II. In 1993, the camp
closed its doors and this historic site was left to the elements.
[Rantoul, Illinois, USA]
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