Opacity - Abandoned Photography and Urban Exploration. Abandoned Places: 10 Creepy, Beautiful Modern Ruins. Abandoned Places: 10 Creepy, Beautiful Modern Ruins Abandoned Places | We humans are explorers by nature. The quest for discovery, both old and new, is part of what separates us from rest of the animal kingdom. Since the world we live in has been largely mapped and plotted, we urban adventurers turn our sights toward the relics of old and the ruins of the recent past.
If you find beauty in urban decay, in the crumbling and abandoned places of yesteryear, you’ll want to read on. Abandoned Submarine Base, Ukraine In a bay on the northern shores of the Black Sea, the Soviet army maintained an elaborate submarine base throughout much of the Cold War. Abandoned Submarine Base Gallery The Ruins of Detroit by Marchand and Meffre In the United States, few cities have felt the burn of urban decay more than Detroit. Ruins of Detroit Gallery Beelitz Military Hospital, Berlin It is rare that a ruin like this should decay so gracefully and without the marks of vandalism. Beelitz Military Hospital Gallery. Lost City …emerged from the water-Villa Epecuen, Argentina | moco-choco.
Travel a few hundred miles south of Buenos Aires, and you’ll find Villa Epecuen. This eerie real-life Atlantis has reappeared from under flood waters after spending 25 years submerged. The small Argentinian spa town sits along the shore of Lago Epecuen, a beautiful indigo blue lake nestled high in an alpine valley. Back in the 1920s, a tourist village was established along the shore of Lago Epecuen, a salt lake some 600 kilometers southwest of Buenos Aires, Argentina. The resort town, named Villa Epucuen, soon had a railroad station, and it thrived for several decades, peaking in the 1970s with a population of more than 5,000. Around the same time, a long-term weather event was delivering far more rain than usual to the surrounding hills for years, and Lago Epecuen began to swell. In 1985, the salty waters broke through an earthen dam, and Villa Epecuen was doomed.
At the time of the disaster, the flood gave the town’s residents little time to gather their belongings. “I am OK here. 1. Rybinsk Reservoir, a Russian Atlantis by design. By Slava Tsukerman When I was 19, I took a cruise along the Volga River. We were crossing the Rybinsk Sea late at night. The endless water surface was illuminated to the horizon. Thousands of multicolored lights mounted on buoys were spread over the manmade sea, appearing as though stars in the sky. It was a breathtaking, mesmerizing view. I was young, naïve and enthusiastic. Rybinsk Reservoir was built as a necessary part of Volga-Baltic Waterway, an expansive system of canals and reservoirs connecting Moscow to St. After the fall of Communism, Russians discovered a lot of information about how the Rybinsk Sea was created.
Among them was one of the biggest and most famous Russian convents – Leoshin Convent – a home of 700 nuns. Up to the moment of liquidation, the city lived a full life. Gulag prisoners were brought to the area. The prisoners died by the hundreds. In this nightmare, residents were told to take only what they needed most and go to be resettled. An Abandoned Bangkok Shopping Mall Hides a Fishy Secret. Photo © Jesse Rockwell In most post-apocalyptic films when the camera pans down the abandoned streets of New York or Tokyo, long after people have disappeared and the buildings have fallen into disrepair, we see nature again thriving. Trees and plants take hold in the sidewalks and wild animals like deer, bears, and lions stalk the ruins left behind by humans. But after descending the staircase at a vacant shopping mall in Bangkok, professional cook and photographer Jesse Rockwell discovered a wholly different take on beasts inheriting the Earth: fish.
Specifically exotic koi and catfish, teeming by the thousands in a secret subterranean aquarium. Rockwell shares via his blog: New World shopping mall, a four storey former shopping mall. Originally constructed as an eleven storey building. What an amazing discovery. Tower of David, the World’s Tallest Slum. The Tower of David is an abandoned unfinished skyscraper in the center of Caracas, the capital city of Venezuela, that is now home to more than 3,000 squatters, who have turned the 45-story skyscraper into the world’s tallest slum. Construction of the building, originally called “Centro Financiero Confinanzas” and nicknamed the “Tower of David”, after its developer, David Brillembourg, was started in 1990 and was to become a symbol of Caracas’ bright financial future.
It is the third highest skyscraper in the country. But a banking crisis brought those plans to an abrupt halt in 1994. The government took control over the building and construction was never completed. The building has no elevators, no installed electricity or running water, no balcony railing and windows and even walls in many places. Photo credit In 2007, a group of squatters took over the building, and it quickly gained notoriety as a hotbed of crime and drugs. Photo credit Photo credit Photo credit Photo credit Photo credit.