Travel Abandoned places

[mojito]

Hashima Island, a former coal mining facility. At one point, over 5000 people used to live there.

Varosha, Famagusta. Tourist area that has been abandoned since the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974.

Any more examples?

 

[NAUGHT5]

Chernobyl and I can't see many people rushing back to Fukushima any time soon.

St.Kilda's trophy cabinet

 

[WALL-e]

This thread


....trollface

Those places in the OP are quite cool, as is there background info.

 

[mojito]

This thread


....trollface

Those places in the OP are quite cool, as is there background info.

Plenty more out there.

Such as...Kowloon walled city

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kowloon_Walled_City

There's a very good book about it, City of Darkness

Kowloon Walled City was the most densely populated place on Earth before it was destroyed in 1993 and turned into a park. At its peak, the “city” had 50,000 inhabitants on 0.026 km² area of land (that, according to Wikipedia, is equal to about 1,900,000 people per square kilometer). By contrast, Manhattan (NYC) has a population density of 25,849/km². Yeah, so if you think Manhattan is crowded, then think of it with roughly twice the amount of people in the same area and that’s close to what Kowloon Walled City was like (although I bet it was a lot worse).

"The Kowloon Walled City was located just outside Hong Kong, China during British rule. A former watchpost to protect the area against pirates, it was occupied by Japan during World War II and subsequently taken over by squatters after Japan’s surrender. Neither Britain nor China wanted responsibility for it, so it became its own lawless city."

"Its population flourished for decades, with residents building labyrinthine corridors above the street level, which was clogged with trash. The buildings grew so tall that sunlight couldn’t reach the bottom levels and the entire city had to be illuminated with fluorescent lights. It was a place where brothels, casinos, opium dens, cocaine parlors, food courts serving dog meat and secret factories ran unmolested by authorities. It was finally torn down in 1993 after a mutual decision was made by British and Chinese authorities, who had finally grown wary of the unsanitary, anarchic city and its out-of-control population."

 

[DREAM TEAM BUFF]

Abandoned Places In The World

http://www.dirjournal.com/info/abandoned-places-in-the-world/

 

[Bomber Bears]

Read about a place in a Bill Bryson book that was a coal area, ther was an underground fire for lack of a better word that meant everyone had to leave. Pennsylvania somewhere from memory.


edit - centralia was the place I'm thinking of

 

[Mr_Bojangles]

Read about a place in a Bill Bryson book that was a coal area, ther was an underground fire for lack of a better word that meant everyone had to leave. Pennsylvania somewhere from memory.


edit - centralia was the place I'm thinking of

Yeah it's Centralia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centralia,_Pennsylvania

There is a website around where some gothy emo student types from England go to abandoned mental hospitals etc and take photos, freaky shit. Will have to find it.

There's a few websites about places in Detroit too, that place is virtually a ghost town now.

 

[Caesar]

Read about a place in a Bill Bryson book that was a coal area, ther was an underground fire for lack of a better word that meant everyone had to leave. Pennsylvania somewhere from memory.


edit - centralia was the place I'm thinking of

No 'was' about it - the fire started in 1962 and it's still burning.

Coal seam fires are nuts. Burning Mountain in NSW has been on fire for an estimated 6,000 years, and there's no indications that it's going out any time soon.

 

[crownie]

have mates that went to Hashima, it was just a feat to get on the island by themselves without getting caught.

 

[mojito]

Sanzhi Pod City

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanzhi_UFO_houses

The UFO houses were constructed beginning in 1978.[6] They were intended as a vacation resort in a part of the northern coast adjacent to Danshui, and were marketed towards U.S. military officers coming from their East Asian postings.[7] However, the project was abandoned in 1980 due to investment losses and several car accident deaths during construction, which is said to have been caused by the unfortuitous act of bisecting the Chinese dragon sculpture located near the resort gates for widening the road to the buildings.[6][7] Other stories indicated that the site was the former burial ground for Dutch soldiers.[8]
The pod-like buildings became a minor tourist attraction due in part to their unusual architecture.[7] The structures have since been subject of a film, used as a location by MTV for cinematography, photographed by people, and become a subject in online discussions, described as a ghost town or "ruins of the future".[9]

 

[Wahooti Fandango]

A recent one I heard about on NPR.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerlach-Empire,_Nevada

 

[Drakescoffeecake]

Very interesting stuff

 

[Messenger]

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

http://abandonedplaces.livejournal.com/

 

[Simple Jack]

Tbh, had hoped thread would be about abandoned places in Melb/Adel/Per etc I've always wanted to go to an abandoned city or large area.

 

[Plugger35]

St Kilda

That's the island in Scotland, not the AFL club before you start making any smart arsed jokes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Kilda,_Scotland

St Kilda was permanently inhabited for at least two millennia, its population probably never exceeding 180 (and certainly no more than 100 after 1851). The entire population was evacuated from Hirta (the only inhabited island) in 1930. Currently, the only year-round residents are defence personnel although a variety of conservation workers, volunteers and scientists spend time there in the summer months.[3][8]
The origin of the name St Kilda is a matter of conjecture. The islands' human heritage includes numerous unique architectural features from the historic and prehistoric periods, although the earliest written records of island life date from the Late Middle Ages. The medieval village on Hirta was rebuilt in the 19th century, but the influences of religious zeal, illnesses brought by increased external contacts through tourism, and the First World War all contributed to the island's evacuation in 1930.[9] The story of St Kilda has attracted artistic interpretations, including an opera.

 

[nicko99]

Apprently theirs a abandon mental hospital around the bundoora area in melb.

 

[crowsarethebest]

Apprently theirs a abandon mental hospital around the bundoora area in melb.

What I was thinking when I came across this thread. Haven't been but few mates have and say it's worth checking out, might have a look around at 2am one night

 

[Damon_3388]

The abandoned Julia Farr Centre in Adelaide was always an interesting thing to see whenever going through Fullarton, considering the relatively well-to-do, well-populated inner suburban area it was situated in. There was something about the look of it and the contrast to its surrounds that was kind of surreal. It really looked like something you'd see in a dodgy '80s horror film. I was amazed it lasted as long as it did in its disused, run-down state.

Speaking of film settings, that Hashima Island looks like it'd make a great one.

Reading about/seeing photos of the abandonment of large portions of Flint, Michigan (due to deindustrialisation) is pretty amazing too, especially considering it was the birthplace of General Motors.

 

[Ed_Gein]

Would love to explore all of these abandoned places. Been to a couple of factories and what not and its great to walk around knowing the place was a hive of activity producing goods etc... cant imagine some of these places would be easy to get into, must be fenced off etc??

 

[mojito]

Tbh, had hoped thread would be about abandoned places in Melb/Adel/Per etc I've always wanted to go to an abandoned city or large area.

Apparently there's a series of drains all around Australia completely removed from the sewage network that people use as meeting places

http://www.forbidden-places.net/urban-exploration-australian-underground-drains#gal

There's also http://www.wyrmworld.com/abandoned/index.html containing a lot of pictures around the Perth area

 

[mojito]

And apparently there's a place in Adelaide out near Stonyfell called "Lisa's House" because apparently a girl was pack-r*ped by a group of bikies...anyone else heard about this?

 

[FootyJunkie]

Waverley Park 2001

 

[Drakescoffeecake]

And apparently there's a place in Adelaide out near Stonyfell called "Lisa's House" because apparently a girl was pack-r*ped by a group of bikies...anyone else heard about this?

I live just around the corner. Never heard about it

 

[courtjester]

There is a place called Stegleitz between Ballarat and Geelong that once had something like ten thousand people there mining for gold. Now, there isn't much apart from a few old house, roads, church and a beautiful court house in the middle of the bush.

It's incredible to wander around and imagine what happened there 150 years ago.

 

[bradrowe#32]

I love this thread.