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In , federal agents raided the camp and it was abandoned. The site experienced a brief revival in the s as an artists' camp. Now, it's just a landmark for curious hikers and tourists in the area. Six Flags New Orleans also known as Jazzland before it was purchased by the theme park chain , was in the middle of creating a new waterpark for the recently opened theme park in when Hurricane Katrina hit.
The area was devastated and is still picking up the pieces more than a decade later , and the theme park remains desolate and in ruins. Urban explorers can still see the remains of Southern and Cajun-themed rides like the Muskrat Scrambler today.
In , the city terminated Six Flags' lease and announced that the area would be turned into a shopping complex, but nothing has happened so far. The Elkmont Historic District — deep in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park — used to be an upscale campground for wealthy vacationers in the first half of the 20th century. Built by the Little River Lumber Company in , it was a summer haven during the height of the timber business in Tennessee, but was abandoned decades ago.
Since then, the 20 or so buildings have become a spooky tourist attraction for hikers and campers in the area. Many of the structures were scheduled for demolition last year, but at least a dozen were saved by the National Park Service. Molokai is one of the least-visited islands in Hawaii, and is home to the old Kaluakoi Resort , a high-end resort that opened in the s.
The resort went through several owners before finally being abandoned in after the property went bankrupt. Check out Sherry Ott's photographic tour of the island resort, which she described as "mournful, crumbling, and disturbing.
This building, 2, acre complex used to be a mental institution from to Like most mental institutions, it closed after controversial experiments on mental patients were condemned.
The village, at the height of treatment in the s, employed more than 10, locals who oversaw the patients and the expansive grounds. Letchworth Village's reputation began its downward spiral in when journalist Geraldo Rivera published an expose on the cruel practices at Letchworth. Today, the building is abandoned, crumbling, and considered one of the most haunted places in America. Garnet is Montana's most famous ghost town.
In the late 19th century, Garnet was established as a gold mining town. At its peak in , the town had 1, residents, saloons, stores, and 20 working mines. Finally, after the gold rush fever died down, most of the town's residents moved away. In , a fire destroyed much of the town. Garnet had a brief resurgence in the s, but turned back into a ghost town after World War II was over.
The relatively well-preserved ghost town is owned today by the Montana Bureau of Land Management and is said to be haunted by the spirits of past residents. This abandoned City Hall subway station was actually the first station in New York City's subway system. Known for its ornamental tiles and skylights, the station opened in and was closed in from disuse. John Baptist Greco, a devout Catholic, opened this roadside biblical-themed amusement park after allegedly receiving a message from God.
From the s until when the park was permanently closed for renovations, Holy Land U. The theme park had a miniature Bethlehem, a replica of the Garden of Eden and a foot light-up cross that could be seen for miles, according to Atlas Obscura. Much of the park still remains intact today, and the land is owned by a group of nuns. The City Methodist Church is a crumbling, nine-story gothic church in Gary, Indiana — a town that was once nicknamed the "murder capital of America. The church was built in during the height of the steel boom in Indiana.
When the steel industry crashed in the s, people moved away, and both the church and Gary itself began to crumble and decay. Today, the abandoned building is a popular stop for urban explorers and was used as a filming location for horror movies like "A Nightmare on Elm Street.
One of many famed ghost towns along Route 66, the Christmas-themed town of Santa Claus, Arizona is now eerily abandoned. When Santa Claus was founded in , it was meant to be a year-round tourist destination in the middle of the desert.
Attractions like the Santa Claus Inn where kids could sit on Santa's lap even if it wasn't December, remained popular with roadtrippers through the s. But by the s, the romanticism of Route 66 had died down and many of the roadside attractions along the famed highway closed.
Today, you can see the remains of Santa Claus, Arizona behind a barbed wire fence. Bob Cassilly was an American sculptor and inventor who tried to turn an abandoned cement factory just outside St. The unique project was abandoned halfway through construction when Cassilly died in a bulldozer accident although new evidence points to a theory that his death may not have been an accident. Today, after arson, graffiti, and theft have destroyed much of the half-finished modern art park, Cementland is abandoned with only a handful of sculptures and structures remaining.
Cassilly's family plans to restore the park one day. Glenrio is another roadside casualty along Route The town's population never really exceeded a couple of dozen, but stayed up and running thanks to the booming road tripping tourism industry along Route But when the faster, sleeker Interstate 40 was built in , and it bypassed the town, fewer visitors came by Glenrio.
By the end of the millennium, the last few residents had moved away or died, and Glenrio became a ghost town.
Bombay Beach, nicknamed the Salton Riviera, was a short-lived chic beach resort community known as "the miracle in the desert. In the s and s, Bombay Beach was an upscale resort destination for beachgoers, with yacht clubs, fancy hotels, and boardwalks.
However, the saline body of water became an ecological disaster. There was no rainfall or drainage system in Salton Riviera, so the water slowly became more and more polluted, and at one time was saltier than the Pacific Ocean. Fish began to die, beach resorts closed, and visitors stopped coming. By , the area had practically been abandoned. These days, you can pick your way through the very smelly ruins of the Salton Riviera. The Kennecott Mines are part of an abandoned copper mining camp that operated from to , but dried up during the Great Depression.
Considered one of the best-preserved abandoned mining towns in America, its most recognizable landmark is the giant red mill building owned by the Kennecott Copper Company. Decades later, the Kennecott Mines are a national historic landmark and tourist attraction for many visitors to Alaska. The Home of Truth was the site of a cult-like religious settlement founded in by Marie Ogden, a woman who believed she could communicate with the dead.
For several years, Marie and her almost followers practiced their religion in the middle of the desert. After Edith — one of the cult members — died, Marie claimed she could bring her back to life. But eventually, after police raided the mysterious religious settlement, Marie admitted that Edith had been cremated years before. Afte Marie died in , the commune became private property.
You can still see the sign for "Marie's Place:" the entrance to her "Inner Portal," where members would supposedly be saved during the second coming of Jesus Christ. But these buildings were actually once part of a one-family house: a 2,foot "dome home" that was built in and fitted with state-of-the-art solar panels.
In , owners Bob and Margaret Lee sold the dome home, but regained it in in foreclosure. After being pummeled by multiple hurricanes over the years, the state declared the unique dome home uninhabitable in In , the dome home was once again heavily damaged — this time by Hurricane Irma — but most of the buildings are still intact.
The Vulture Mine and the surrounding ghost town are considered one of the most haunted spots in Arizona. The mine opened in during the height of the gold rush.
The city has since languished for nearly three decades as a chilling reminder of the disaster. Its buildings have decayed and been partially reclaimed by the elements, and wild animals roam through what were once bustling apartments, sports complexes and an amusement park. In the town post office, hundreds of letters from still sit waiting to be mailed.
While radiation levels in Pripyat have dropped enough in recent years to allow urban explorers and former residents to make brief visits, scientists estimate that it could take several centuries before the town is once again safe for habitation.
Ruins of the martyred village Oradour-sur-Glane, photographed in On the afternoon of June 10, , the village of Oradour-sur-Glane was the scene of one of the worst massacres of French civilians during World War II. The men were taken to barns and machine-gunned, and the women and children were locked in a church and killed with explosives and incendiary grenades. Only a handful of people managed to survive by playing dead and later fleeing to the forest.
A new Oradour-sur-Glane was built nearby after the war ended, but French President Charles de Gaulle ordered that the burned-out ruins of the old town be left untouched as a monument to the victims. The facades of dozens of brick buildings and charred storefronts still remain, as well as graveyards of rusted cars and bicycles, scattered sewing machines and unused tram tracks.
The site is also home to a museum, which holds a collection of relics and mementos recovered from the rubble. Today, Hashima Island is a vacant labyrinth of crumbling concrete, sea walls and deserted buildings, yet it was once among the most densely populated places on the planet. The small island off the coast of Nagasaki was first settled in as a coalmining colony. Hashima remained a hive of activity for the next several decades, especially during World War II, when the Japanese forced thousands of Korean laborers and Chinese POWs to toil in its mines.
By the s, the acre rock was packed to the gills with more than 5, residents. So how exactly does a bike get stuck in a tree like this? And if a tree steals your bike do you want to try and get it back?
According to retired King County deputy sheriff, Don Puz, this Washington state tourist attraction came about when when he was just a boy.
Back in the mid s his mother moved the family to a home in the Sound that was mostly marsh lands where kids could chase frogs all day and take a dip in a pond. Puz says that the bike in question was an uncomfortable ride at best, so when he forgot it in the swamp one day he never thought about it again, not until While visiting his sister on the island she took him to the tree and he was hit with a flood of nostalgia.
Puz told Vintage News :. Or is every empty building a summer home with the right mindset? This is the question posed by Slab City, essentially a desert camp site outside of Niland, California. The strangest of folk who live in the area are those who stick around all year, braving the scorching heat in favor of living a life without rules or abandon. The hotel was once apart of the Furka Pass, an iconic drive through the Swiss Alps, something that used to be multi-day thrill ride through a mountain, but as cars got faster and the glacier receded travelers stopped staying the night and over the course of a few decades the hotel went out of business.
These hidden ruins of a mansion stripped bare tell the story of a once opulent home that long ago fell into disrepair. Still, it looks to be a wonderful play land for anyone who chances upon it on an early morning hike.
Opened in , the Worth Street subway station that was shuttered in because of the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall station. Is there any more desolate place than an empty motel in the middle of nowhere?
The highway towns of Texas, no longer as busy as they once were have all fallen prey to the detritus of time. Or maybe you just feel like living out your own horror movie. The amusement park was only open for a day, but these bumper cars were barely used thanks to the dangerous levels of radioactivity in the area.
Now this building simply sits in the dust and falls apart , waiting to be rebuilt by human hands. Deep in the highlands of Perthshire Scotland, stands Dunalastair castle. The castle was the home to the Clan Donnachaidh who lived in the family until the s and a burial ground for the family still exists on the grounds. Even though the castle stands empty as it overlooks the peak of Schiehallion, there are cottages on the nearby grounds where visitors are allowed to stay.
The castle has served multiple purposes over the years. This tiny house has seen better days, but with such a massive build up in San Francisco there are plenty of other tiny homes that are thriving - or at least the local government hopes that these miniature versions of home will thrive. Why live in a massive home when you only need a few things? As ripped up and derelict as this theater looks you have to admit that the seats are in pretty good shape.
If you look close enough you can still see popcorn kernels jammed into the floor with little pieces of gum. Hopefully some day someone will repurpose this space and restore it to its former glory. Some abandoned spaces are beautiful, others have a stark emptiness that leaves you breathless, this is simply devastating.
Empty and forlorn, what was once a top notch Poconos Mountain resort , the inn was a primo spot for families on vacation. Anyone looking for a lavish vacation in the mountains were able to take in 27 holes of golf, horseback riding, and even swimming and tennis. What started as a place for Belgian children to spend their summers was abandoned after a ride went wrong and ended in a blood bath.
The rides, including this slide, were rarely kept up with, and as the rides fell apart it was only a matter of time before something bad happened. Decaying and picturesque, the capital of Georgia and the heart of the Caucasus is a dichotomy of riches and corrosion. What was once a Soviet town of people who did what they had to in order to survive is slowly becoming a new mecca of cool.
For anyone under the age of 30 who happens to be reading this, at one point in time, for quite a while actually, there were these places called record stores where you could physically purchase an album, and Tower Records was one of the coolest record stores out there.
Actor and director Colin Hanks explained:. Thanks for the music Tower, and thanks for the memories. Ivy is able to enshroud and cling to inorganic material by using its own energy efficient scientific system to climb house, cars, and really whatever it likes. Japanese tourism after World War II was kept mostly to areas that were close to the country. In this post-war rebuilding stage investors created all encompassing resorts near their island which could be reached by ferry.
In the s Loews removed Kings from its umbrella, turning the theater into a second run and B-Movie theater , but it was seized by the city due to back taxes owed by the owners. As of there have been plans in place to revitalize the theater and turn it into a thriving art center and theater. If the plan works out the Kings will be the third largest theater in New York City. After closing in the Screw Coaster, a double-corkscrew steel roller coaster designed by Arrow Development, stood tall over the Nara prefecture, begging urban explorers and roller coaster enthusiasts to imagine what it was like to take a spin.
This cable car overlooks what was once a theme park and took its passengers over a river until when the theme park closed its doors. Even though this mysterious orb looks small, it could fit up to 40 passengers in its one ton body. In the post war era there was nothing like packing up the house and spending a couple of months in the Catskills. Even if you were a weekender it was freeing to get out of the city and breathe in the fresh air of the woods.
The building has been left to rot in the woods as its gradually reclaimed by the roots and vines. The domes have crumbled to the ground, and the roof of its inner sanctums have been stripped completely, leaving anything holy left inside to the ravages of Mother Nature. One wonders if there are still bats in the belfry or if they've abandoned the church as well. Lee Motel once stood on a major road which meant that its rooms were rarely vacant. However, when the interstate system moved into Virginia traffic was siphoned away from the motel and it fell into disrepair.
The building has since been demolished, but the neon sign was saved and restored, which is great news for fans of vintage neon signs. Businesses came and went through the grand building but nothing ever stuck and it sat for years as a monument to bad spending and poor planning. This fascinating, abandoned restaurant was finally demolished in A spiral staircase in a former children's asylum in Staunton, Virginia.
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