The 33 Most Beautiful Abandoned Places in the World

[Jamaal510]

More: http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/2Il7Bt/:6uqrZuZa:l0HdkEbt/www.nature-pictures.info/the-33-most-beautiful-abandoned-places-in-the-world/

The Tunnel of Love in Ukraine
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El Hotel Del Salto in Colombia
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Bodiam Castle in East Sussex, England
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[Tuesday Afternoon]

1. just added 33 destinations to my Bucket List. thanks, dude

I will live forever

[Sekhmets Daughter]

2. You'll need to!

They're gorgeous aren't they?

[Tuesday Afternoon]

4. yeah

:sigh:

just lovely ... it will take a life time

[Joe Shlabotnik]

3. love this kind of stuff,

really gets the imagination going.

[arcane1]

5. Neat! This reminds me of that "Life After People" thing that was on tv a while back.

[pokerfan]

6. I know it only as Swamp Castle

[Art_from_Ark]

21. Everyone said it was daft to build a castle in a swamp

but I built one all the same, just to show 'em!

[Arugula Latte]

7. Re: the second pic. "Salto" means "I jump" in Spanish.

[KamaAina]

28. It also means "falls"

as in waterfall. The Falls Hotel makes a bit more sense than the Hotel I Jump.

[Arugula Latte]

29. Ha ha. I didn't know that.

Okay, but I was having fun imagining people base jumping from the hotel.

[dixiegrrrrl]

8. I am Wiki'ing the various places on the link page

and finding out the most interesting history
including an abandoned Italian hilltop town which "was built under the direction of Attendolo Sforza"
Viewers of The Borgias will recognize that family name.

Fascinating info. here....thanks for posting!

[hunter]

9. Lucky me, I've been to some of those places.

Makes me want to start wandering again.

[applegrove]

10. That was wonderful.

[oldandhappy]

11. amazing. wow.

Thank you for finding this post and then giving it to us. The photography is great.

[Jamaal510]

12. I found it randomly by using the site "Stumbleupon".

[PatSeg]

13. Those are amazing - Thanks

[KatyaR]

14. The Maunsell Sea Forts were featured in a Prodigy video.

I could never tell if they were real or not, I thought maybe CGI. Now I know!

[Liberal_in_LA]

15. beautiful

[Berlin Expat]

16. Another beautiful place, albeit

with a sinister history: the ruins of Hrad Čachtice in Slovakia - the home of Erszébet Bathory. I've been there, back in 2003.

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[Lucky Luciano]

17. Some sick shit must have happened there!

I wonder if it was the motivation for the movie, "Hostel" which took place in Slovakia where rich people would pay to torture in the most gruesome if ways backpackers that would get kidnapped from the hostel in town.

[Berlin Expat]

20. The Bathory

legend is indeed one of the inspirations for "Hostel", along with sundry urban legends and folktales.

It's debatable as to how many Countess Bathory actually killed - estimates range from slightly under 100 to over 600. Personally, I'm not quite sold on the "bathing in the blood of virgins" thing. From what I've read, she strikes me more as a sadist who most likely received some form of sexual gratification out of killing people - somewhat along the lines of Gilles de Rais.

At the very least, she was most certainly a serial killer.

[woo me with science]

18. I love this post.

Thank you!

[JitterbugPerfume]

19. beautiful...

[mwdem]

22. Haunting....

Angkor Wat has always fascinated me. On my bucket list, for sure.

[Agschmid]

23. Pretty sure if this kind of thing had a soundtrack this would be it...

[Initech]

24. I'd add Hashima Island, Nagasaki, Japan

If it looks familiar it's where they filmed the scene in Skyfall where James Bond has a face to face confrontation with Javier Bardem.

[BobbyBoring]

25. Great post

I just hope it was done by someone in a non English speaking country.

"Many people doesn’t know, and didn’t even heard about these famous abandoned places."

[Jamaal510]

26. Wow

I didn't even notice that until you pointed that out. I'm assuming that it was done by a non-native English speaker because pretty much nobody writes like that who is fluent in English, not even people who are illiterate.

[closeupready]

27. Won't be abandoned for much longer now.

[toby jo]

30. I wonder how many places just local I could frame up this way, or any of us could.

Sometimes all one sees is the 'crumble' factor, until someone shines a little 'wait, look again' energy at it.