A decade before Shougang Iron and Steel hosted Olympic sporting events, it was an immense decaying complex of blast furnaces, coke ovens, pipes and coal conveyors. While the 2008 Olympics brought the end of the manufacturing operations of Shougang Steel, the 2022 Olympics catalyzed its rebirth.
Directly on a beach in Vietnam is an entire village presumably made up of Rông Houses manifested from the Central Highland of the country. Upon closer scrutiny, these are actually the villas of a failed beach resort.
There are no photos from this theme park when it was open, and images seen today show rides with eerie cartoon faces. Okpo Land’s lore tells of deaths of children on rides at the park. But did this shoddy park really have homicidal amusement rides? And why is this scrappy park so famous?
This stately Neoclassical house in the middle of Portland was not only vacant but abandoned. Inside, the house was clean and well-preserved with little damage…
On first look, the collection of structures assembled at a few hundred meters from a creek inlet are mystifying. A massive, reinforced concrete wall would seem to be a single section of the ramparts to some kind of futuristic castle...
Canceled before it could reach 50% completion, this nuclear power plant features an unfinished reactor containment vessel. The turbine hall is like a jump puzzle setpiece in a video game with openings in the floor leading to dark flooded cellars of imperceptible depth. With more than 30 years of unconstrained intrusion, nature has completely infiltrated all the structures chambers and alcoves.
Encountering a rusted and forgotten car during a hike over an unmarked trail yields one question. Resting far from any road, the surrounding terrain could only allow off-road vehicles. How did it get there?
Hidden amid the northern regions of Greater London resides what appears to be an abandoned cemetery. By day and night, Abney Park emanates an eerie impression, with densely packed tombs overgrown with vines. Ancient trees have tilted or completely upset most of the headstones and monuments.
Republic Steel Thomas By-Product Coke Works was built in the 1920's and deactivated in the 1970's. It is perhaps the most well preserved specimen of that era that still remains.
A second aesculapian complex exists on the Jemison Plantation called the SD Allen Intermediate Care Facility. This facility was a mental health institution which operated from 1976 to 2003.
TCI Ensley Works is an anomalistic sight. Nature has nearly covered this brownfield site yet the monolithic ruins that remain expose it's industrial past. In the snow, TCI takes on an a more mystical delineation.