This canceled nuclear power station features two partially completed cooling towers, as well as two reactor buildings one of which is outstanding due to its near-complete state.
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The 5 Best Pictures of Beitang Container City on the Internet
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Surrealistic photos of a disused shipping container city part of Beitang Residential District in the Binhai New Area.
Read MoreThe No.3 Blast Furnace at Shougang Iron and Steel, 2011.
A Fascinating In-Depth Look at Shougang Iron and Steel Before the Olympics
A decade before Shougang Iron and Steel hosted Olympic sporting events, it was an immense decaying complex of blast furnaces, coke ovens, pipes and coal conveyors. While the 2008 Olympics brought the end of the manufacturing operations of Shougang Steel, the 2022 Olympics catalyzed its rebirth.
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13 Moody Refinery Pictures That Will Change Your Mind About Petroleum Processing
Local authorities identified this petroleum refinery as a major cause of poor air quality in the region. In its later years it was fined for environmental violations and slated for relocation
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Resort developers don’t know about this one weird trick to abort construction projects
Directly on a beach in Vietnam is an entire village presumably made up of Rông Houses manifested from the Central Highland of the country. Upon closer scrutiny, these are actually the villas of a failed beach resort.
Read More7 Incredible Photos of This Landlocked Pirate Ship: Number 3 Will Shock You
Far inland in South Korea, this ship called the Phoenix was destroyed by fire but never rose again from the ashes.
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You won’t believe what happened when this Chinese water park didn’t pay it's migrant workers.
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Business was operating normally toward the end of summer when a group of ruffians barged into the park, demanding money. They kicked out the staff and blocked the entrances. Staff called the police, but they refused to intervene. What was the story behind this abandoned water park?
Read MoreWhy is this abandoned school so popular in Kpop music videos?
This school never opened, but why are there so many books inside, and why does it show up in so many K-pop videos?
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Vietnam's abandoned water park is so famous it has it’s own hostel
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At one time Thuy Tien Lake was a bit more mysterious and sensational. Accounts claimed the only way to find the park was by directions passed from one backpacker to another and tales spoke of starving crocodiles left to fend for themselves inside the park’s aquarium. Today the crumbling water park is listed clearly on Google Maps.
Read MoreHow This Abandoned Mansion Avoided Demolition in Portland
This stately Neoclassical house in the middle of Portland was not only vacant but abandoned. Inside, the house was clean and well-preserved with little damage…
Read MoreInside the base of the cooling tower.
Alien Carapace
On first look, the collection of structures assembled at a few hundred meters from a creek inlet are mystifying. A massive, reinforced concrete wall would seem to be a single section of the ramparts to some kind of futuristic castle...
Read MoreThe Jungle in Concrete
Canceled before it could reach 50% completion, this nuclear power plant features an unfinished reactor containment vessel. The turbine hall is like a jump puzzle setpiece in a video game with openings in the floor leading to dark flooded cellars of imperceptible depth. With more than 30 years of unconstrained intrusion, nature has completely infiltrated all the structures chambers and alcoves.
Read MoreA Castle in a Cornfield: Wonderland Beijing
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This castle was to be the emblem of the largest amusement park in Asia. But, even from the highway, it's clear that something is not quite right with this attraction. The castle looks more like a rocket launch tower rather than the centerpiece of an amusement park.
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Forest hideout of the vehicle butcher
Not much remains, of this sawmill, but inside are several chopped up vehicles and other oddities.
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11 Never-Before-Seen Pictures of an Abandoned Minimalist Housing Estate
This development of minimalist concrete cuboidal villas was almost complete. Housing developments that are built, unfinished and demolished are nothing unusual in China
Read MoreExplore This Abandoned House Hidden in Lantau Island
This old traditional house was discovered hidden in the forest off the Lo Fu Tau Trail on Lantau Island
Read MoreShougang Steel at Night: 8 Pictures From The Industrial Edge of Beijing.
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The plant reduced production over the next few years until it was finally closed in 2011. These pictures are taken later in 2011, many from the abandoned 碧霞元君庙 temple on an adjacent hill to the west of the Shougang site.
Read MoreThe Pizitz: Exhibition of the Downturn and Resurgence of Urban Birmingham.
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Closed in 1988, the Pizitz department store is representative of the migration out of urban centers in the United States. The 8-floor store was iconic in the city, yet it still fell victim to the gradual loss of economic activity in Birmingham
Read MoreAntapex of the Lyric Theatre before resurrection
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At one point long after its pinnacle, the Lyric theatre was only valued at $10. That was in 1993 …
Read MoreFound Historical Imagery of Republic Steel
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Incidentally, some of the 1992 David Diesing photos at the Library of Congress are nearly the same view as mine. It is interesting to compare what has changed in the nearly two decades of time that has elapsed.
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