Abandoned Places / Ghost Towns, USA

Shoshoni, Wyoming
Shoshoni had a short-lived love affair with uranium and nuclear power in the 1980s. It didn't last long, and the population slowly dwindled.




Bannack, Montana
Bannack was named after a local Indian nation. After its founding in 1862 it operated as a Montana gold mining town for just over a hundred years before the last residents abandoned it.



'I think it is best you not know', Alabama
Many of these old towns had once been thriving county seats, but as commerce left and transportation corridors changed, the glory faded, creating Alabama's ghost towns.




Bodie, California
In 1876, the Standard Company discovered a lucrative deposit of gold-bearing ore, which changed Bodie from an isolated mining camp to a Wild West boomtown. Discoveries in the adjacent Bodie Mine two years later attracted even more hopeful people.

Just some places in America I want to visit. 🙂

Rural, abandoned, forgotten, secluded, beautiful. Feel free to contribute.

Those are really neat, the pics look surreal to me, especially the first one.

It actually kind of bothers me, that so many resources go to waste. Driving across the west so much, I see so many abandon buildings, all kinds of materials that could be put back to use.

I get that real ghost towns are a way to step back into the passed, but to me... some of these places are just screaming "please love me, put me back together again, make me pretty, pretty please"

Posted by Astrobyn
It actually kind of bothers me, that so many resources go to waste. Driving across the west so much, I see so many abandon buildings, all kinds of materials that could be put back to use.

I get that real ghost towns are a way to step back into the passed, but to me... some of these places are just screaming "please love me, put me back together again, make me pretty, pretty please"

Well, if you really want to love them you'd leave them alone! 😄

Isn't there too much exploitation for the sake of "resources", the last thing we need is another city, lol. There's something magical about places frozen in time. It feels like a portal into another reality. I'd gladly give up my comforts and my wristwatch for a while to sleep around a campfire near these sights. But I guess you 'Mericans take them for granted.

I don't thinkm its what you think, cus I'm all about restoration and putting it back how it was. A lot of those places have souls that should be nurtured and loved. Made whole not new.

But that's just how I see it.

Posted by Astrobyn
I don't thinkm its what you think, cus I'm all about restoration and putting it back how it was. A lot of those places have souls that should be nurtured and loved. Made whole not new.

But that's just how I see it.

I understand what you mean, but then it wouldn't be the real thing. You'd bring the outside world to it, or worst case scenario make it into a tourist venue. But yeah we all see different things when we look at it 🙂

Some of those locations look like places in which some of the scenes of, "The Walking Dead" were shot.

This may sound morbid, but I like to visit the cemetaries around towns like this. Just walk around and read the epitahs and imagine the people that used to live there and how things used to be.
You start seeing trends and notice several deaths in a close time frame and wonder about how they all died....influenza? etc.

i love this thread. abandoned buildings/places/haunted grounds really fascinate me.

they have a ton of abandoned buildings/sites in eastern europe/russia.

Posted by LadyOfRebirth
I find abandoned places so creepy. :/

Who knows what went on down there in the past.. Don't want to end up in a haunted town.

lol there's touristy ghost towns in nevada and arizona. we all went there and found no ghosts though.

i'd never go into an abandoned place unless i'm with a group of people. just no way. too creepy, but the thrilling feeling of it is kind of cool.

Glendale, Ohio


Abandoned school in Quinlan, Montana


Another one from Bodie, California


Michigan


Monterey County, California


Fayette, Missouri


Astoria, Oregon


Grass Valley, Oregon

Its not always out in the boondocks....



From Detroit, MI

The creepiest are the ones with furnishings still in them.


What's with all the crosses?

Here's setting the mood! 😉

Posted by truecap
The creepiest are the ones with furnishings still in them.

What's with all the crosses?

Vampires? 😱

Posted by enfant_terrible

Posted by truecap
The creepiest are the ones with furnishings still in them.

What's with all the crosses?

Vampires? 😱

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It made me think of the Exorcist. 😱

I always wonder if they left the house in a hurry for some reason or why it was never cleaned out after a death.

There was a house in the woods when I was in college that was abandoned and we used to go exploring. It was like the people just left one day, still had clothes, dishes, mail, etc. We never stole anything but a picture (like someone's school picture from the 70s) and would take turns sending it to each other. It was fun to try to creep each other out, lol!