15 photos of abandoned places that make you feel the power of time and history (16 photos)

It’s very exciting to explore abandoned places, making your way through vegetable gardens overgrown with weeds and unkempt gardens, and also to observe from the outside how time can change previously inhabited dwellings beyond recognition.





However, there are many dangers that can await you in long-abandoned places: they are deteriorating, and no one knows at what moment they will want to collapse. Therefore, we have prepared this collection of photos for you so that you can explore such abandoned places while being completely safe.

Abandoned crematorium near Bucharest, Romania



A house abandoned by everyone in the Kaliningrad region





Abandoned checkpoint of SevMorZavod



A long-defunct cinema in northern Thailand



Iturup Island, Sakhalin Region⁠⁠



Abandoned train in the mountains



Polar bears at an abandoned Soviet meteorological station, Kolyuchin Island in the Chukchi Sea. The station was built in 1934 and closed in 1992



Crypt, Scotland, UK



A roller coaster that no one rides anymore



Village of Prostokvashino, Nizhny Novgorod region



Dilapidated library



Church hidden in an enchanted forest



Abandoned Allenberg psychiatric hospital in the Kaliningrad region⁠⁠



Crimean Nuclear Power Plant is the most expensive unfinished nuclear reactor in the world



Abandoned chapel in the Vologda region