Reckless Abandon

Abandoned brewery: Gebhard Brewery, Illinois This brewery was...

Mon, 01 Apr 2013 22:50:20 -0400

Abandoned brewery: Gebhard Brewery, Illinois

This brewery was founded in 1866 by German immigrant Louis Gebhard, in Morris, Illinois. The brewery did great at the time until the prohibition act which caused its downfall.

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Abandoned Brewery: Murree Brewery, Pakistan This brewery was...

Mon, 01 Apr 2013 22:36:30 -0400

Original photo of the Ghora Galli brewery

Abandoned Brewery: Murree Brewery, Pakistan

This brewery was established in 1860 to provide English military personnel and administrative officers with English-style ale. The original Gothic brewery complex was burned down during the 1947-48 Partition Wars, but the company still stands.

Villa Epecuen, Argentina Villa Epecuen transformed from a sleepy...

Tue, 19 Jun 2012 03:54:13 -0400

Villa Epecuen, Argentina

Villa Epecuen transformed from a sleepy mountain village to a bustling tourist resort soon after a railway line linking it to Buenos Aires was built in the 1920s. Before long, tourists from all over South American and the World came flocking. By the 1960s, as many as 25,000 a year came to soak in the soothing salt water.

The town’s population peaked in the 1970s. More than 5,000 people lived and worked year round.

Around the same time however, the rain started falling and wouldn’t stop. Heavy rain fell on the surrounding hillsides for more than a decade.

Over time, slowly rising flood waters filled the lake to the brim.

It all came crashing down on November 10th, 1980.

In 2008 - The rains slowed down to a trickle. Before long, submerged streets began to rise up from the depths. An iridescent salt caked ruin that looked like something from the other side of an apocalypse.

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Hotel Belvedere, Dubrovnik, Croatia Pockmarked with shell...

Tue, 19 Jun 2012 03:42:08 -0400

Hotel Belvedere, Dubrovnik, Croatia

Pockmarked with shell holes, the once mighty hotel was also pounded by the Serbian naval bombardment. Despite it’s decrepit condition, the hotel’s gates remain wide-open today. Never truly cleaned up, you can wander around and find pieces of broken china, note pads, laundry bags and lots of other stuff sporting the old hotel logo. The locked wine cellar is rumored to be full of vintage vino, not to mention a cache of rusting ammunition and grenades.

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Colossus of Prora, Germany Rising like a massive ghost along the...

Tue, 19 Jun 2012 03:35:40 -0400

Colossus of Prora, Germany

Rising like a massive ghost along the misty coastline of Germany’s Baltic Sea island of Rügen is a Lost Resort you won’t find listed in many tourist brochures.

Maybe it’s got something to do with it’s history — as Adolf Hitler’s idea of a perfect Nazi holiday retreat.

Back in 1936, at the height of his power, Hitler started building the massive beach resort complex. Even by the ambitious Nazi standards, the “Colossus of Rügen” was a monumental construction.

Hitler on this hotel, huh. Hee.

Fascinating, though! More here!

Secrets and mysteries cover this long-forgotten railway...

Mon, 18 Jun 2012 09:42:00 -0400

Secrets and mysteries cover this long-forgotten railway masterpiece.

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Abkhazian railways consist of a 185-kilometre (115 mi) main line...

Mon, 18 Jun 2012 09:41:02 -0400

Abkhazian railways consist of a 185-kilometre (115 mi) main line along the Black Sea coast and a 36 km (22 mi) branch to Tkvarcheli[1]. It connected Russia’s North Caucasus Railway with Georgian railways prior to 1992, however the connection with Georgia was severed as a result of the War in Abkhazia.

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One of the more ornate abandoned places in the world this...

Mon, 18 Jun 2012 09:39:28 -0400

One of the more ornate abandoned places in the world this railway station in Abkhazia is a stunning relic from the collapse of the Soviet empire. Soviet era train stations were often overdone marblemonuments to the working man and this was no exception.

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An abandoned Train Station on the old Alnwick to Coldstream...

Mon, 18 Jun 2012 09:21:43 -0400

An abandoned Train Station on the old Alnwick to Coldstream Railway line know which was know as ‘The Cornhill Line’, due to the Coldstream station actually being in the nearby village of Cornhill and not in Coldstream itself.

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Mon, 18 Jun 2012 09:19:07 -0400

Soviet remains

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How many people got in and out of this now abandoned railway...

Mon, 18 Jun 2012 09:16:09 -0400

How many people got in and out of this now abandoned railway station? How many people cried in this station? How many people just watched their lives go by while looking at dizzying, blurred images out the window? How many wished the train would never stop running? How many loves and lives were lost?

How many people got in and out of this now abandoned railway...

Mon, 18 Jun 2012 09:08:00 -0400

It's been a while!

Sat, 16 Jun 2012 03:30:10 -0400

Eleven months since the last time I posted anything in this blog.

I hope all of you have been well!

XO,

Namibia Ghost Town: Sands of Time

Sat, 16 Jun 2012 03:29:03 -0400

Namibia Ghost Town: Sands of Time

Silver City, Idaho More on source

Sat, 16 Jun 2012 03:27:00 -0400

Silver City, Idaho

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Cuchillo Bar, New Mexico

Sat, 16 Jun 2012 03:24:24 -0400

Cuchillo Bar, New Mexico

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Wed, 27 Jul 2011 05:50:28 -0400

Railroad of Death

Wed, 27 Jul 2011 05:42:00 -0400

Railroad of Death

Abandoned Salekhard-Igara Railroad The Salekhard-Igarka Railway,...

Wed, 27 Jul 2011 05:40:53 -0400

Abandoned Salekhard-Igara Railroad

The Salekhard-Igarka Railway, referred to variously as 501 Railroad, Railroad of Death, Road of Death, and Dead Road, was a project of the Soviet Gulag system that took place from 1949 to 1953. It was part of a grand design of Joseph Stalin to span a railroad across northern Siberia to reach the Soviet Union’s easternmost territories. The connection from Igarka to Salekhard measured 806 miles (1,297 km) in length. The project was built mostly with prisoner labor, particularly that of political prisoners, and thousands perished.

The purpose of the railway was threefold: to facilitate export of nickel from neighboring Norilsk; to provide work for thousands of post-war prisoners; and to connect the deep-water seaports of Igarka and Salekhard with the western Russian railway network. With Soviet industry relocated to western Siberia during World War II, it was seen as a strategic advantage to use the northward-flowing river systems to deliver supplies to Arctic Ocean ports. Salekhard was on the Ob River, downstream from Novosibirsk and Omsk, and Igarka was on the Yenisei, which flowed north from Krasnoyarsk, Irkutsk, and even Lake Baikal.

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The Ghost Town of Varosha, Cyprus The area of Famagusta known as...

Wed, 27 Jul 2011 05:36:17 -0400

The Ghost Town of Varosha, Cyprus

The area of Famagusta known as Varosha has a rich history of prosperity despite of long-standing conflicts in the region. In the 1970s, however, the Turkish invaded and claimed the tourist territory as their own. They erected fences with warnings and forbade the return of any residents. After decades of disuse the structures have fallen into a serious state of disrepair and are in many cases no longer habitable by anyone save the sea turtles which call some beach-side structures home. source