Creepy Images Of Abandoned Places Around The World
La Petite Ceinture Railway, Paris
Photographer Pierre Folks spent three years documenting the slow decay of this once popular stretch of Parisian railway, abandoned since 1934.
North Brother Island, NYC
Home to a hospital, housing for WWII veterans, and a rehab center for teens at different times throughout its history, North Brother Island once looked like a well-manicured college campus. Abandoned for the past 50 years, it’s slowly returning to the wild.
Chernobyl Power Plant
After the nuclear disaster in 1986, Chernobyl was abandoned for obvious reasons. The lack of human activity gave the surrounding forest an opportunity to reclaim its rightful place. In these aerial images taken in the 1990s (top) and 2013 (bottom) you can see how trees have moved into engulf the former city.
A string of decaying shipwrecks near the Bermuda Triangle
Ferris Wheel
This barn has become more tree than building.
Playground
Abandoned Train Tracks, Berlin
The trains moved out, and this tree moved right in.
Bobsled track from the 1984 Winter Olympics track in Sarajevo
Ghost Train
‘Tent of Tomorrow’ from the ’64 World’s Fair pavilion in Flushing Meadows, NY
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