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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