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Borrowed from another forum and very very visual. Have a look at these:
http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2010/07/gallery-russian-resort/all/1
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Christopher Biggins..
How did you know that hes the spitting image of me? 😆
battleship island looks like a high class area of downtown detroit.
That's amazing, in a morbidly fascinating way 😐
Swansea...?
Would make for some great maps on MW2!
If you like that kind of stuff this site will keep you busy for hours:
[url= http://atlasobscura.com/ ]Atlas Obscura[/url]
V8 - you're not kidding, 1/2hour already and barely scratched the surface.
Heres one for brants clangers....
V8 - you're not kidding, 1/2hour already and barely scratched the surface.
Its actually more addictive than online porn 😆
i like the second image!
There's an hour or so of my life gone 🙂
Prora.
Hitler's holiday camp.
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Would make for some great maps on MW2!
I was thinking that the first image on the first link looks like one on MW (the TV studio one I think)
Ooooo, great thread, guys. Hashima Island looks like scenes from Akira, and the Russian resort is amazing. Love to visit both with a good camera and a load of big empty SD cards. Bookmarked all those sites for later study. Thanks.
You should've seen Glasgow's Gorbals circa '80's!
Superb!
Wow - I have watsed lots of time looking at amazing things. Some of those links have links to other mad websites too. I found a photo of this crazy waterslide. Would you go off it??
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My career...
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Centralia :
[url= http://www.offroaders.com/album/centralia/centralia.htm ]http://www.offroaders.com/album/centralia/centralia.htm[/url]
Cool thread, I find stuff like this fascinating.
There's a luxury resort on Montserrat that was half covered by pyroclastic flow from the recent (started 1995 and still technically ongoing) Soufriere Hill eruption. You can visit by guided tour only. That's eery. Everything is covered by about 4ft of compacted ash, and while you can go into the hotel complex the doors are all now half height, the swimming pool is 2 ft deep, etc.
When I lived in the bush in Australia there was an abandoned uranium mining town nearby - Mary Kathleen. It felt quite creepy because it was still maintained (it had a resident caretaker and was fenced in) so when you wandered around it was like being in one of those SF movies where everyone else in the world has disappeared.
It actually was resurrected later but the next time it was closed down everything got auctioned off - even the buildings. They got relocated to other towns.
The [b][u][url= http://www.bing.com/maps/?mm_src=home#JnE9Lk1hcnkrS2F0aGxlZW4lMmMrUXVlZW5zbGFuZCU3ZXNzdC4wJTdlcGcuMSZiYj02MS45OTAyNjgxNzQyNjgyJTdlOC41Njc5NDkyMTg3NDk5NiU3ZTUwLjQ5OTAxOTI2NDQ3NyU3ZS0xNy4yMjc5NDkyMTg3NQ== ]Multimap location[/url][/u][/b] shows the empty sites where the houses were.
There were also plenty abandoned mines in the area. After WW1 the demand for copper etc plummeted and the the mining equipment was left just as it was. Places like Selwyn, Kuridala, etc. The houses had all been removed to other towns like Mt Isa or Cloncurry.