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20 Cool abandoned places
These 20 places had seen many people before they were abandoned. The pictures of these places bring out all kinds of feelings.
This abandoned railway called Petite Ceinture in France looks especially wonderful in summer.
Built in 1993, the Jet Star ride in New Jersey has been closed for 16 years and is now partially underwater.
St-Etienne-le-Vieux in France looks like a shot of a scene from some James Cameron movie.
A small house on a small island in Finland.
Wreckages of ships in shallow waters in the Caribbean Sea.
A horror-movie-looking-like estate in Poland.
Turquoise Canal, in Venice, just like many places in this city, was abandoned.
A section of the Great Wall in China, which was abandoned and overgrown.
Red Sands Sea Forts in the United Kingdom – a place that was built during the World War 2 to protect the River Thames, now looks like a screenshot from some Pixar animated movie.
Abandoned Domino Sugar Factory in New York – don’t you worry there is no sugar left there by now! And no candies!
Do you think this is a shot from ‘The Walking Dead’? Well, it’s not! This is the famous car graveyard in a Belgian forest.
No, it’s not a shot from ‘Inception’ or some other movie about the illusory world. It’s an abandoned power plant in Belgium.
This beautiful City Hall Station in New York was closed in 1945 because only about 600 people used it when commuting to work.
The Eilean Donan island in Scotland, which looks like a painted picture on this photograph, has been abandoned since the beginning of the last century.
You’ve probably heard about this one. The Disney’s Discovery Island in Florida, which was abandoned after bacteria capable of killing humans was discovered there.
The world’s second largest man-made hole located in Eastern Siberia in Russia. Joseph Stalin ordered to dig it to satisfy the USSR’s demand for industrial diamond, but the digging was halted because it was too deep to continue.
The so-called ‘floating forest’ in Sydney, Australia. It’s scary to even think what kinds of animals live there.
New South China Mall is the largest shopping mall in the world, but was abandoned due to the fact that not enough merchants signed up to have their shops there.
Kolmanskop in the Namib Desert. This place thrived in the early 1900s after diamonds were discovered in the sand, but was abandoned after it ran out of diamonds.
Often called the ‘staircase to nowhere’, this staircase is located in Pismo Beach and opens a beautiful view at the top of it.