24 Stories and Photos of Abandoned Buildings

24 Revealing Photos & Stories of Deserted Buildings

abandoned buildings

What is it about the cracking paint, the crumbling brick and the ominous silent of abandoned buildings that attracts urban explorers from around the world to crawl carefully through and silently document their rooms and spaces? Deserted buildings seem to grow more complex and interesting as the natural processes of decay take over and as layered debris tells more and more stories as the years go by.

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(Images above via Opacity)

Different kinds of buildings, like abandoned places and cities, are deserted for different reasons. Sometimes disaster strikes and there is no funding or motivation to rebuild a particular structure, but in other cases a building’s use expires as in the case of mental institutions and drive-in theaters which are largely things of the past. Some buildings go through second (and third and fourth) lives and are adaptively reused in creative ways while other structures are simply deserted.

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Eventually, the great republican depression will no longer allow new architecture, and the cost of restorations will be out of the question. Photo records of our greatness are necessary for the education of generations to come. Perhaps by correlating these photos and others with the history of this dark era of America, they will discover the causes and avoid them. Beautiful works!