54 Still Beautiful Abandoned Buildings around the World ...
I came across some pictures of abandoned buildings and immediately saw why photographers are attracted to places long since left by their residents. I never imagined abandoned buildings could be so beautiful.
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Some industrial abandoned buildings simply outlive their usefulness as modern technology replaces their function.
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Glorious staircase.
This puts me in mind of the staircase in the Von Trapp family mansion in The Sound of Music
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Just love the way the staircase splits into different directions.
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Imagine how magnificent this once was. The decorated ceiling gives a clue.
Was this once a ballroom or just a grand salon, do you think?
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Abandoned industrial buildings can be just as beautiful as domestic ones.
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The piano was probably once the focus of entertainment at grand soirées.
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It amazes me that people don't enter places like this to rip out features such as that magnificent light fitting.
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I wonder where all the monks went?
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Built 1882, abandoned 2002.
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This conservatory once rang with the sound of children's voices.
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Brooklyn's Kings Theater was once one of the country's grandest movie theaters. Opened on Flatbush Ave in 1929 as one of five "Loew's Wonder Theaters" in New York, it closed in 1977 and has been abandoned ever since.
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Can you see the people lined up at the bar, enjoying a drink, sharing stories, making new friends and memories?
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A lot of effort to design and build. A home to a family/families and all their stories. And all no more.
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Where abandoned by humans, nature finds a home.
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A poignant tale of abandonment. Why leave a picture of children and a pram? There's a story there!
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I was particularly drawn to this abandoned plantation house because I live in Northampton, UK.
Many abandoned buildings are associated with the paranormal. Even if you don't believe in such stuff, it still adds to the spookiness.
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Built in 1925, 20 rooms, 8,800 square feet - now all gone to wrack and ruin.
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I'm fascinated by the ceramic tiles. I've never seen them in this sort of setting before - they're normally the realm of bathrooms, kitchens and floors. Other pictures show the tiles continue along the landing walls.
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The Uptown is the largest theater in Chicago, and it boasts 4,381 seats. Its interior volume is said to be larger than any other movie palace in the US, bigger even than Radio City Music Hall. The huge theater has an ornate five story entrance lobby with an eight story façade. It's been left unused since 1981.
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Although first mentions date back to the 15th century, little history is known of this magnificent mansion near the border with Monaco.
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Built in 1912. Long abandoned and little chance of it ever being returned to original use as there are only around 50 Jewish people living in Constanta now.
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What sights and sounds must the walls have experienced.
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Among the many, many abandoned villages across Russia, there are some wonderful examples of traditional architecture.
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Imagine how much it would cost today to build a house with that ceiling and a real wood parquet floor.
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Still beautiful and not yet fallen into a bad state of disrepair.
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What an amazing structure. Bags the room at the top. A room with a view.
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The light coming in through the stained glass is amazing.
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I just love the radiator under the window. So incongruous.
Staircases like this are pretty scary even when not in abandoned Polish palaces.
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The grandiose nature of the paintings on the ceiling and walls seems to have been echoed in the floor, but as it's now covered with the dust of time, it's hard to tell.
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Built single-handedly as a family home over 12 years by an engineer, the house on the hill also killed its builder. Frances Lee Smith died falling from a balcony on the pagoda-style roof. It stands abandoned on a hill in Wapiti Valley, Wyoming.
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Once a family country seat and designed by renowned British architect George Gilbert Scott, Hafodunos Hall has been a nursing home and a girl's school. It is now being restored.
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Once the workplace of thousands of men, now a study of urban decay and industrial decline.
Designed by Jams Renwick, the hospital had 100 beds.
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The Chateau de Singes (Castle of Monkeys) is also known as the Chateau la Folie (Chateau of Folly) but is really the Château à Cahaignes (Castle Cahaignes). We only know it was built in the 17th century and abandoned in 1976. Why the Castle of Monkeys? No one knows!
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When you see this, aren't you just so curious to know why it’s left in this state. What caused the family to up and leave?
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Abandoned by history, Reclaimed by modern art.
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Built in 1905, the casino was a sign of western decadence and was abandoned in the communist era.
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Another aristocratic palace let go to ruin by the proletarian ideals of communism.
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My romantic soul is saying Doctor Zhivago.
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The ornate decorative stylings of the rococo period.
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Not all abandoned buildings are stripped of their assets.
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I'm strangely more fascinated by the height of the street lamps on the Avenida de Maceo. It's at second-storey height!
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The spirals draw your eye to the top.
Who wouldn't love to live in a house like this?
Do you see beauty in abandoned buildings? Would you ever take on a fixer-upper?