I am absolutely captivated by so-called “modern ruins”. I’ve seen several galleries of modern ruins published online, and I am always sucked in by eerie photos of abandoned buildings and facilities. Surprisingly, many of these facilities give the impression that everyone just got up and left, and never came back. Abandoned asylums look amazingly creepy, especially with large chunks of asbestos-filled paint curling off the walls..and some of the rusty contraptions that they used to strap people into make my skin crawl. I recently came across a new site of abandoned Japanese buildings that has literally thousands of pictures. I really wish I could read the descriptions, but even without them, the images are truly fascinating.

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Japanese Abandoned Buildings (Click the icons at the bottom of each page to navigate to the next page in the series)
Modern Ruins
Chernobyl Tour