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Rurex Photography: A Heavily Overgrown VW Beetle
(Image: Forsaken Fotos) The image caption “Red and Alone” pretty much sums it up. Except, of course, for the vast swath of green, which has infested the surroundings of this abandoned Volkswagen...
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Urbex Photography: Are these Jetliners Really Abandoned?
(Image: Brett Levin Photography) There are some great photographs to be found in Brett Levin’s urban exploration set on Flickr. The images featured here are among them, and purportedly show a couple...
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Urbex Photography: Abandoned Railway in Piedmont, Italy
(Image: Andrea Schiavon) Abandoned trains and railways are nothing new for Urban Ghosts. But we love the composition of this rural exploration image by Pogno-based photographer Andrea Schiavon. The...
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Giant Haul Trucks Turn to Rust on an Abandoned Industrial Site
(Image: Darkman – darkophoto/Facebook) There’s something mightily impressive about heavy industrial machinery, and the giant haul trucks that serve quarries and open-cast mining operations are no...
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10 Great Railway Journeys of the World (From the Iconic to the Obscure)
(Image: David Brossard) We’ve said it before: there’s something uniquely romantic about rail travel. Watching the scenery shift and unfurl beside you as you clatter across a great, open plain, or wind...
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The Gloomy Interior of an Abandoned Train Car in Italy
(Image: Fabrizio Cerroni/Borderlands) It may not be travel at its most luxurious, but this abandoned train and defunct locomotives in Italy undoubtedly offer a photogenic subject for urban exploration...
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Forgotten Fords: Pat Harvey’s Rusting Truck Graveyard by Highway 319
(Image: Katy Warner; Pat Harvey’s rusting Ford truck graveyard in Florida) In the words of the excellent Atlas Obscura: “Rusty and overgrown with vines and grass, they are lined up neatly on the right...
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Rusting Warrior: Haunting Image of Abandoned Ship at Salamina, Greece
(Image: RF-Edin) Beached in the shallows of southern Greece’s coastal waters, her bow raised above the water, this old vessel was abandoned to the elements years ago. Pictured here, the earthen hue of...
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MV Captayannis: The River Clyde’s Wrecked Sugar Boat
(Image: Doug Collinson) In the midst of Scotland’s expansive River Clyde, off the banks of the town of Helensburgh, rusts the curious wreck of a merchant vessel known to locals as “the sugar boat”....
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Rusting Retro: Decaying Dashboard of Abandoned Volvo
(Image: olavXO) Taken on a snowy January afternoon, this abandoned Volvo with its classic retro dashboard evokes the motoring spirit of another age. The derelict car is understood to lie in a vehicle...
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A Surprisingly Photogenic Collection of Scrap Cars
(Image: Timm Suess) In his Flickr set titled “Autumn Leaves”, photographer Timm Suess documented an abandoned vehicle graveyard near Bern, the capital of Switzerland. Here, all manner of abandoned...
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Raketa: Abandoned “River Rockets” of the Soviet Union
(Image: baseguru – website/Instagram; the Raleta graveyard) Not to be confused with the watch brand of the same name manufactured for the Red Army and Soviet Navy from 1961, the Raketas – or Rockets –...
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Abandoned Bucket-Wheel Excavator: Behold the Earth Moving Monster
(Image: Bas van der Poel – Maestro Photography) It’s one of the most amazing pieces of abandoned machinery we’ve ever featured on Urban Ghosts. There have been some impressive ones too, from...
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Awesome Shots of Porsche GT2 RTS3 Inside an “Abandoned Building”
(Image: Nidjo – Facebook) From the purportedly abandoned supercars of Dubai to the forlorn shell of an abandoned Lamborghini Diablo that isn’t all that it seems, we’ve covered a wide range of rotting...
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Formula Junior: Abandoned Racing Car Found in Old Building
(Image: Rui Almeida – website) Five months ago we featured a series of eerily quiet racing circuits, speedways and dragways across the world, and it seemed appropriate to follow those up with an...
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Mothballed Aérotrain Prototypes are Models of Retro-Futuristic Elegance
(Image: Robin Brinaert – Facebook/website; Aérotrain 02 prototype) Our January 2016 article – titled 11 Abandoned Monorails, Suspension Railways, Railplanes & Hovertrains – featured two abandoned...
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5 Abandoned Spacecraft & Vehicles Resting on the Moon
In the whole of human history, only a handful of people have ever set foot on a celestial body that wasn’t our own. There were 12 in total, all were male, and all were American. The distant object...
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Pitch Black: Wrecked Spaceship Prop in Coober Pedy, Australia
(All images courtesy of Rob Chandler; Coober Pedy’s wrecked Pitch Black spaceship) Situated 500 miles north of Adelaide at the heart of the world’s largest opal mining centre, the dusty South...
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Life at the Roundhouse: 10 Captivating Railroad Photographs by Jack Delano
Celebrated American photographer Jack Delano didn’t focus exclusively on railway imagery, but as this series of vintage pictures reveals, Delano’s railroad photographs are undoubtedly captivating....
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The Villeneuve Collection: A Parisian Transportation Time Capsule
(All images courtesy of 4.4.2 Explorations; the Villeneuve Private Collection) For those with a love of urban transportation, this incredible collection of old-time (and more recent) vehicles offers a...
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