Haunting Images of Forgotten Places

There is something so terribly poignant about an empty space which once throbbed with life. Within that poignancy lays a tragic beauty, the ghosts of dreams and the shriveled roots of hope. This collection are images of such sites, some of which have, poetically, now been reclaimed by nature. Among the offerings is the town of Pripyat, abandoned following the Chernobyl Disaster and a former Namibian settlement which was hastily constructed upon the discovery of diamond stocks only to be left to rot once the gems ran dry.

Hashima Island, Japan

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Military Hospital in Beetlitz, Germany

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Church in the Snow, Canada

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Abandoned Mill, Italy

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102 Year-Old Floating Forest in Sydney, Australia

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House of Bulgarian Communist Party, Bulgaria

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Last House on Holland Island, U.S.A.

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I.M. Cooling Tower, Belgium

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Kolmankop, Namibia

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Michigan Central Station in Detroit, U.S.A.

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Nara Dreamland, Japan

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Pripyat, Ukraine

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Salto Hotel, Colombia

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San Zhi, Taiwan

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Submarine Base in Balakava, Ukraine

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Subway Tunnel in Kiev, Ukraine

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Sunken Yacht, Antarctica

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The City Hall Subway in New York, U.S.A

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The Haunting New Bedford Orphuem, U.S.A.

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The Maunsell Sea Forts, England

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Abandoned Train Station in Abkhazia, Georgia

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Underwater City in Shicheng, China

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Uninhabited Island in Southwest Florida, U.S.A.

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Wooden House, Russia

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