Abandoned Places - Thanks Clarence :)

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At our one link per post limit maybe this deserves a separate topic? if not I'll just merge it with the turnpike one later

Anyways, the fact that nothing - no matter how alive and thriving - lasts for ever, is something I have always found both sad and intriguing at the same time. It probably helps that the town I live in dates back over 1300 years, and has an exensive network of 400 year old tunnels running under it that very little is known about.

One of the pubs very close to my mums house (which itself is nearly 500 years old - her house that is) has a well in the middle that intersects the tunnel network - rather reminiscent of the wishing well from goonies :lol: It's also thought that the houses in her street - which were derelict for a long time before being renovated in the 60's had connections to the tunnels from the cellars, unfortunately the cellars were all filled in and sealed off during the renovation. It was still a very interesting thought to me though during the years I lived there

So the Frome tunnels is where I'll start

http://www.frometunnels.co.uk/index.html
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North Brother Island

Very interesting being such and extensive "town" with so much left behind untouched, and so close to such a highly active and populated area

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... olony.html
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Fukushima Region

Not exactly ancient history due to it being such a recent event/abandonment, but still very interesting to see the pictures of towns that were evacuated in such a hurry. The commercial streets and picture from the school with kids school bags still hanging on their pegs two years on are something quite unusual

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/g ... n-pictures
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Route 66

There's more info on other sites - specific to particualar settlements/towns (Glenrio etc) but a nice collection of pics on this one

http://www.texasescapes.com/Route66/Res ... -Texas.htm
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London Pneumatic Railway - 1

One of many examples of great victorian innovation that didn't quite stick, part 2 did though - next post :)

http://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/2009/07 ... st-tunnel/
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London Top 10 (Tunnels)

I find no's 2 and 1 particularly interesting, but then I have a thing for tunnels :lol:

http://londonist.com/2011/01/london%E2% ... acombs.php
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Underground Cities - (Kaymakli and Derinkuyu)

Certainly built to last..

http://www.goreme.com/kaymakli-underground-city.php
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Underwater towns and villages - update 19/04

Dunwich (the former capital of "The Kingdom of East Angles" is worth a mention, but not so much a link because there's a lack of decent photographic documentation on the web, and a rather small wiki page, which gives a little attention to the fact that most of it - including remains of many original buildings - is now under the sea

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunwich
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19/04 - Villa Epecuén

Very large formerly submerged town, plenty of pics on this one

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... years.html
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Graun - Italy (if there are any D&D players around, im pretty sure this was the inspiration for "The Bell in the Deep" story from Forgotton Realms

Anyhoo, linky with nice pics http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/fe ... lage/17107
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Drowned Churches

http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/ne ... es?image=5

The one at Potosi has actually been uncovered again due to a long drought - next post
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I'll devaite a little to finish up, with some hidden away places

http://weburbanist.com/2007/10/15/7-mor ... nd-cities/

The black title text in each section is clickable for more detailed info

(yes I am entertaining myself with this thread :lol: )
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Sorry I haven't commented. I have been looking through some of these when I have time and they are VERY interestin! Thanks so much for sharing!
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Here are some pics, beautiful and eerie at the same time.

http://myscienceacademy.org/2013/04/14/ ... the-world/
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I really liked 17. I giggled at 13.
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I would love to visit numbers 8, 13, and 29!
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I think we need to aim to have a huge NELG meet at Angkor Wat.
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That would be so awesome!
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