30 cool abandoned places or whatever

#13 I'm expecting Colonel Kurtz to come out of that door at any moment.

#21 I swear I saw that place in a movie, can't remember wich.

@Tagaziel The interrogation chamber from Brazil was indeed filmed inside a power plant's cooling tower, the kind of cooling towers you see on you stereotypical nuclear power plant. Might as well even be the same cooling tower.

My fav place still has to be Pripyat. The danger of radiation always present like this invisible killer stalking you, and not just an ordinary ghost town, but a good ghost soviet city from the cold war era :) Not sure of living surrounded by all that radiation, but the element of danger makes it an exciting place to visit.
 
Gonzalez said:
#21 I swear I saw that place in a movie, can't remember wich..
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Yeah, me too.

What was the place that inspired "Canticle for Leibowitz" ?
I know it's in Italy somewhere.

Without spoilers, please.




Surf Solar said:
The dangerous effects of the radiation in Pripyat are mostly huge exagarations. :)
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Wha'?





I'd really love to visit all these Eastern Bloc abandoned sites, but I'm pretty sure there are many more which are even more fantastic than these.


Know of some, NMA?
 
Hey Colombia is there too. We also have abandoned Castle like houses were mob leaders used to live.
 
An old factory just near my home...

I'm sure you can find an abandoned site at your city, they all look the same anyways.
 
Thanks for the link, awesome stuff.

That yacht gives me the creeps, sunken ships generally do that for me.
 
Most of those remind me far more of Uncharted's kinds of locales than anything from a post-apocalyptic setting. Though still quite hauntingly beautiful, and #4 was by far my favorite. =)
 
Surf Solar said:
The dangerous effects of the radiation in Pripyat are mostly huge exagarations. :)
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depends ... would you eat the crops in that area?

The problem with Prypjat and the area around it is, that there are "hot spots". The radiation seems to be a lot higher in some areas compared to others. Hell some places are completely save with almost no radiation. But I still would not walk around without my geiger counter. The problems are the long term effects anyway. Even small dozes of radiation can have huge effects after countless of years. We always receive a small doze of radiation each year, no matter where you are, thx to stuff like radiation from space or something like that, they even say that this energy or cosmic rays (?) played their part in evolution because they promote mutation. But to much of it and it has negative effects. Like in the areas around Pripjat. It costs the Ukraine a lot each year to teach people how to act with the food there, Gorbatschov even started some kind of organization just for that, if I remember right, the green cross? No clue. But as far as I know they try to educate people there about how to treat the food that is growing in the Ukraine. Particularly in the areas which are close to the plant.
 
This reminds me of back when I was in high school, a few friends and myself snucked onto a small abandoned Air Force base that was originally built as a defensive spot against WWII Japanese subs. It's about 30 miles or so away from my town. It defiantly had that eerie post apocalyptic feel to it in the middle of the night.
 
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