Abandoned sea plane

Abandoned Sea Plane | How to be a Retronaut

Teufelsberg

The Abandoned Cold War Listening Station Built on the Ruins of Nazi Berlin | Environmental Graffiti

Abandoned Six Flags

China's ghost towns

Gunkanjima

As reader andru pointed out, a post about the fabulous "man-made island" of Gunkanjima is pretty much in order: Gunkanjima (literally Battleship Island, its actual name is Hashima) is located a few kilometers off the coast of Nagasaki, Japan. It was used from the late nineteenth centuries until around 1970 for mining coal, and its main feature are the 9-story apartment blocks created in the 1910s, the first high-rises ever built in Japan.

Today, the island is abandoned and derelict, awaiting possible restoration as a museum as a museum. The stark visual impact of the ghost houses has been captured in multiple photography series in the last few years. As international attention is rising, it appears that the island has recently reopened for traffic, and there is also a motion in place to submit the island as a World Heritage Site.

BLDGBLOG: Gunkanjima Island

Ruins of Detroit

The Ruins of Detroit is a book by photographers Yves Marchand & Romain Meffre that will be released on May 31st, 2010. Glimpse a sample of the great pictures they made in abandoned buildings in Detroit-- these look almost too surreal to be for real! Really awesome.

Yves Marchand & Romain Meffre Photography - The Ruins of Detroit

Bechyovinka

The abandoned town of Bechyovinka, formerly a secret submarine base, is on the island of Kamchatka and is also called Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskya located a few kilometers down the bay from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskya.

You can look it up on Google Maps and you'll see that there's only a blurred out satellite view available, showing that it's very much at the end of the world, on the tip of the peninsula... indeed a perfect spot for a secret base.

English Russia » Bechyovinka, the submariners’ secret town

Remnants of the Soviet empire

Photos of Mongolia, from Eric Lusito's book "After the Wall - Traces of the Soviet Empire".

io9: Abandoned Ruins of the Soviet Empire

Beijing underground city

Vice Mag takes a look in the abandoned underground city of Beijing, which was built by Chairman Mao in the 1960s and was originally plannes to house all 6 million of Beijing's population at the time.

CHAIRMAN MAO’S UNDERGROUND CITY « Viceland Today

Abandoned missile base

I'm a big sucker for abandoned facilities, even more so when it comes to military installations. Here's some new photos from such from the English Russia blog.. I'm mostly intrigued by those missile charts shown here.

English Russia » Abandoned Military Object

Abandoned places in Japan

One of the great joys of the internet for me was the arrival of the "abandoned places" kind of sites. I recently came upon these fantastic images by Japanese photographer Shibakoen Kotaro, featuring all kinds of ruins ranging from abandonded amusement parks, resorts, schools, and also the fort island of Hashima.

Haikyo Defure Spiral