Abandoned buildings

[Kristinella]

Hahahaha. I am sure that I WANT to, but I am also sure that I am too afraid to.  We were going to go there once while we were up north, but kinda chickened out, hahaah.

Just drive straight down Broadway, you'll get the drift. 

Although there is an awesome store there that sells all sorts of cool stuff, including wigs (which I love).

[LizMachine]

www.forgottendetroit.com

http://weburbanist.com/2008/03/18/7-more-abandoned-wonders-of-america-from-deserted-breweries-to-famous-factories/
 I have a bunch of them around where I live now. I should take pictures. But it's aleady starting to snow, so probably not.

[honeybee]

Cool links - thank you. 

Amazing what gets left behind. 

I've gone to do a few abandoned houses near me but there is such a housing shortage here they have been moved in to, which has to be a good thing!

[PCP777]

Cool links and cool thread.

I find abandoned shipwrecks fascinating as well.....

[PCP777]

Check some of these out:

http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2008/05/shipwrecks-sea-disasters.html

[angelaiscaustic]

I can spend hours on this site:

http://forgotten-ny.com/

[angelaiscaustic]

My ex used to live in this house in "old Astoria".  It's like 150 years old.  The inside is carved up into 6 apartments.  It's also haunted as fuck.  They redid the exterior but the interior is falling apart.  It's sad, you can see how beautiful it must've been. (the pic is an old one)

[angelaiscaustic]

Triplepostwhoa.

PCP, you might like this.  It's the Rossville Boatyard on Staten Island, technically "the end of NYC" geographically.

http://www.forgotten-ny.com/YOU'D%20NEVER%20BELIEVE/rossville/rossville.html

[LawChick]

Marking. Also I'm super excited that I have something to do for the rest of the day while I'm alone in the office. Working is a total no go for me today.

[PCP777]

Triplepostwhoa.

PCP, you might like this.  It's the Rossville Boatyard on Staten Island, technically "the end of NYC" geographically.

http://www.forgotten-ny.com/YOU'D%20NEVER%20BELIEVE/rossville/rossville.html

Incredible. This link came from yours http://oboylephoto.com/boatyard/index2.htm


Awesome pics. Can't believe someone wouldn't want to develop this shoreline property.

[PCP777]

[honeybee]

The ships are way cool - they seem to make such beautiful photographs.

http://www.kiddofspeed.com/default.htm  I was off on a differant tangent in my hunt and found this bike riders view of nuclear areas in Russia - interesting, especially the last chapters in the children's day care.




You can see the tiny gas masks - very sad.

This led me to Nevada, reminded me of old favourite horror movie - The Hills have eyes.  Not a traditional abandoned place but weird still.  All those dummies are so strange.  I've got one in my shed, I had to move it outside because when it was in the house it kept scaring visitors - even though it has no arms or head.  Abandoned dummies are another sub catagory.  Hmmmmm.... abandoned dummies on abandoned ship... 




http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Operation_Doorstep

[sue_vicious]

The ships are way cool - they seem to make such beautiful photographs.

http://www.kiddofspeed.com/default.htm  I was off on a differant tangent in my hunt and found this bike riders view of nuclear areas in Russia - interesting, especially the last chapters in the children's day care.




You can see the tiny gas masks - very sad.

This led me to Nevada, reminded me of old favourite horror movie - The Hills have eyes.  Not a traditional abandoned place but weird still.  All those dummies are so strange.  I've got one in my shed, I had to move it outside because when it was in the house it kept scaring visitors - even though it has no arms or head.  Abandoned dummies are another sub catagory.  Hmmmmm.... abandoned dummies on abandoned ship... 




http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Operation_Doorstep

YES. I love that photo blog. I want to visit Pripyat. 

[g r ee n ey e s]

http://www.kiddofspeed.com/default.htm

That website just kept me entertained for at least 2 hours.

[songbirdsong]

http://www.abandoned-places.com/

That ^ is a really lovely site with a lot of European locations... absolutely gorgeous old castles and asylums and orphanages and what-not.

Ahhhh I used to go exploring all the time. I forgot how much I miss it.

My favorite abandoned place EVER is the Superconducting Supercollider down in Waxahachie. Standing next to a 2 billion dollar failure always made me feel better about my own shortcomings. Also, science is sexy.

[GothaBella]

www.forgottendetroit.com

  They need to stop demolishing shit right now. There is NO way Michigan Central can come down. I am glad the Book-Cadillac was saved! A friend of mine worked on it. It's not just buildings, either-homes, too. I worked on some incredible houses while I was home last year. I worked on one that caught fire from the abandoned house next door. The baseboards and ceiling moulding was SO ornate! Irreplacable!! Thanks for the link, Liz. I am really homesick now, though.   

[honeybee]

Okay, I've got to love the passion of this chick - a blog about creepy abandonded Chi Chis.   

http://creepyabandonedchichis.blogspot.com/


And for the gamblers amongst us - 9 abandoned casino's - the one in Cambodia is particularly beautiful. 

http://www.raketherake.com/rakeback-news/2009/11/12/9-creepy-abandoned-casinos/

[GothaBella]

There use to be a ton of Chi-Chi's in the Detroit metro area. I was always told chi-chis meant tits in Spanish.

[boogieman]

Gotta bump this to share this link:

http://boklm.eu/b/log/photos/urbex/abandoned-orphanage-1.html


I think an abandoned orphanage would be the creepiest... Right up there with Decaying hospitals or prisons.

[Olivia]

I want to see Bowie's mental hospital photos