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I&rsquo;m leavin&rsquo; it! You can bet your sesame seed buns these 10 closed and abandoned <a href="https://weburbanist.com/2011/12/25/mcarchitecture-10-sizzlingly-odd-mcdonalds-restaurants/" target="_blank">McDonald&rsquo;s</a> have swirled their last <a href="https://weburbanist.com/2013/06/23/swirl-world-9-cool-mcflurry-flavors-you-cant-get-here/" target="_blank">McFlurry</a> and will bag burgers no more.</p>
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<h4>Archless In America</h4>
<p><a href="#" data-featherlight="https://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/McDonalds_1.jpg"><img decoding="async" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-62604" src="https://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/McDonalds_1.jpg" alt="abandoned McDonald's " width="468" height="673"></a><span style="font-size: xx-small;">(image via: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/flaviograna/6302486404/">Flavio Grana</a>)</span></p>
<p>The usual knock against modern architecture (or should we say, &ldquo;ARCH-itecture&rdquo;) is that it lacks character, and the stereotypical mansard-roofed &ldquo;McStore&rdquo; style of McDonald&rsquo;s outlets is the poster child for the genre. With that said, Flickr user <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/flaviograna/" target="_blank">Flavio Grana</a> has managed to coax a supersized amount of depth out of the anonymous abandoned McDonald&rsquo;s location above. Stripped of all brand identity yet instantly recognizable, the moonlit McD&rsquo;s stands alone in silent glory, a washed-out monument to conspicuous consumer culture.</p>
<h4>Sweet &amp; Sour Saucer</h4>
<p><a href="#" data-featherlight="https://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/McDonalds_2a.jpg"><img decoding="async" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-62606" src="https://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/McDonalds_2a.jpg" alt="Megatron McDonald's Alconbury" width="468" height="1010"></a><span style="font-size: xx-small;">(images via: <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/1g0fl0/this_subway_in_new_jersey_has_a_red_sign_instead/">Reddit</a>, <a href="http://comfortabledisorientation.typepad.com/my_weblog/2007/05/the_megatron_1.html">Comfortable Disorientation</a> and <a href="http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/246660">Geograph UK</a>)</span>)</p>
<p>If you thought the UFO-shaped <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/demonbaby/2335812109/" target="_blank">McDonald&rsquo;s in Roswell</a>, NM was out of this world, then feast your eyes on the former McDonald&rsquo;s restaurant in Alconbury, UK. First opened in 1990 as <a href="http://comfortabledisorientation.typepad.com/my_weblog/2007/05/the_megatron_1.html" target="_blank">The Megatron</a>, the distinctive saucer-shaped eatery was an interplanetary flop: in 1993 it closed but soon re-opened under the McDonald&rsquo;s banner.</p>
<p><a href="#" data-featherlight="https://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/McDonalds_2b.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-62608" src="https://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/McDonalds_2b.jpg" alt="McDonald's Megatron Alconbury" width="468" height="1140"></a><span style="font-size: xx-small;">(images via: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/35382790@N00/1387896202/in/photolist-37DkbS">Daz</a>, <a href="http://comfortabledisorientation.typepad.com/my_weblog/2007/05/the_megatron_1.html">Comfortable Disorientation</a> and <a href="http://www.huntspost.co.uk/news/business/flying_saucer_site_could_become_travellers_pitches_1_1409018">HuntsPost24/Geoff Soden</a>)</span></p>
<p>After roughly 15 years serving up burgers, fries &amp; shakes to hungry Huntingdonshire locals, the location shut down for good and (oddly for a closed McDonald&rsquo;s franchise) remained shuttered for a further half-decade before finally being <a href="http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/News/Space-theme-restaurant-bites-the-dust.htm" target="_blank">demolished</a> in mid-2008. Plans are now afoot to allow six &ldquo;gypsy pitches&rdquo; to occupy the land where the McUFO once stood. Tramps and thieves are advised to look elsewhere.</p>
<h4>Arch-Criminal?</h4>
<p><a href="#" data-featherlight="https://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/McDonalds_3.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-62609" src="https://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/McDonalds_3.jpg" alt="abandoned McDonald's golden arches sign" width="468" height="704"></a><span style="font-size: xx-small;">(image via: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/99244087@N00/4435212407">rustyjaw</a>)</span></p>
<p>It&rsquo;s not often an item (with emphasis on the &ldquo;em&rdquo;) this large and obtrusive escapes the watchful eyes of the McBrand Police but it seems to have happened here. Flickr user <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/tendril/sets/72157623554245300/" target="_blank">rustyjaw</a> doesn&rsquo;t explain what the Big M is doing inside an abandoned naval communications station or what plans (if any) he has for this piece of fast food M-orabilia, and that&rsquo;s probably in his own best interest. Imagine refurbishing and re-electrifying the signage, then mounting it on your dining room wall&hellip; awesome to be sure, though it would definitely ruin the mood during intimate gourmet dinners.</p>
<h4>Supersize My Storm</h4>
<p><a href="#" data-featherlight="https://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/McDonalds_4.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-62628" src="https://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/McDonalds_4.jpg" alt="abandoned McDonald's Biloxi clown" width="468" height="885"></a><span style="font-size: xx-small;">(images via: <a href="http://imgur.com/r/creepy/1RgbS">Imgur/1RgbS</a> and <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/82337243@N00/87575587">Joel Carranza</a>)</span>)</p>
<p>If Ronald McDonald wasn&rsquo;t creepy enough already, check out his <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/creepy/comments/12oivq/abandoned_mcdonalds_after_katrina/" target="_blank">zombie clown</a> alter-ego, still (barely) standing in Biloxi, MS, shortly after Hurricane Katrina devastated the area in September 2005. It took a while for reconstruction to get into full swing around Biloxi and the neighboring gulf coast but it was too late for both this shattered &amp; shuttered McDonald&rsquo;s and the tilted Ronald &ndash; they&rsquo;ve been replaced by a Wendy&rsquo;s.</p>
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