“Takakanonuma Greenland” (by CreepPasta)

Someone mentioned that the spree park ferris wheel reminded them of Takakanonuma Greenland, so I found this creepy pasta.  It falls into fiction about halfway through (I’ve never heard anything about that picture of the little girl at the gate), but the park honestly doesn’t need any embellishment to be scary.

What’s spookier than a theme park that closed in 1999 having no existence on video or film?  It’s easy to find clips of Nara Dreamland’s glory days, but, for some reason, this one slipped beneath the radar. 

Also, if the park is still standing, it’s in the fallout zone from Japan’s recent nuclear disaster. 

quantumshiboogie:

spookyscarythings:

alicegrimm:

The Abandoned Ferris Wheel Spins Anyway

The thing that weirds me out most is that the squeaking really sounds like kids screaming on rides, like roller coasters.

GET THE SALT

This is the famous Spree Park ferris wheel!  Last I heard, efforts were being made to restore it, but it’s too impatient to wait that long. 

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outlaw-gentleman asked: I'm getting amped up for my first-ever urban exploration. I'm excited but nervous, hoping to hell I don't get hurt or arrested. But I just discovered this blog. And I love it. <3 Which brings me to this: FLORIDA. You have ONE post set in Florida. Florida has a ton of abandoned places in Disney, North Florida and down U.S. 192. Check 'em out! :D

Awesome!   If you send me the pictures, I’ll totally put them up on the blog.  :)   Just make sure to take a buddy if you can, as well as a flashlight, and a cellphone, and be careful!  I wish you the best of luck.  

  As for Florida, I’ve written about a couple of Florida locations (though I know I haven’t even come close to hitting a lot of them), like Africa U.S.A, River Country, the abandoned Disney hotel, Xanadu, house of the future, and Splendid China (my tagging is a bit dodgy, I apologize). 

But yes!  Florida does have a lot of really great abandoned places, especially with all the tourism in the area.  I’ll definitely have to look into it further. 

This is just a reminder that, when exploring abandoned places, you should try your best to leave them as they are.  Don’t break windows, or cause damage.  That ruins the place for other people. 

mobylosangelesarchitecture:

i just got back from detroit, where i was playing at the movement festival (which was as festivals go, i say with some objectivity, amazing).

i’ve been going to detroit since the late 80’s (as it is the birthplace of modern electronic music), and i’ve always loved it.

culturally and musically and artistically it’s a fascinating place, but it’s also fascinating in that it has more remarkable abandoned buildings than any other city in the western world (this might sound like hyperbole, but i’m guessing it’s actually true).

it’s worth stating that there are big parts of detroit that are not filled with abandoned buildings. and those are nice, too… but the parts of downtown detroit that are filled with beautiful old abandoned buildings are aesthetically amazing (as evidenced by the fact that lots and lots of people have taken pictures of them).

on saturday i had the afternoon off, so my friend shannon (who lives in a former abandoned building) took me on a bike ride around detroit to look at her favorite abandoned buildings (what she refers to as ‘ruin porn’).
here are some of my favorites.

and i hope that these buildings at some point get the love and care that they deserve. but in the meantime: ruin porn.

thanks,

moby

Abandoned Amusement Park in New Orleans

I keep seeing this post, and I thought I’d come out of retirement to settle record straight. These aren’t all pictures of Six Flags New Orleans. These pictures are also from parks in Ohio, Japan, Ukraine, Spain, and Germany. :)

(Source: motionburnsthemood, via comic-chick)

endthymes:

kisho kurokawa, nagakin ‘capsule’ tower; capsule residence interior view

Oh  man, a picture of the interior of the capsule tower before it fell into disrepair.  what a view. 

endthymes:

kisho kurokawa, nagakin ‘capsule’ tower; capsule residence interior view

Oh  man, a picture of the interior of the capsule tower before it fell into disrepair.  what a view. 

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malformalady:

The overgrown indoor swimming pool area at the abandoned Grossinger’s Catskills Resort. Grossinger’s Resort in the town of Liberty in New York’s Catskills was famous back in its heyday. Grossinger’s gained fame in 1952, when it became the first resort to use artificial snow for its ski-fanatic patrons. Grossinger’s was closed in 1986 and to this day sits abandoned next to a still working golf-course.
Photo credit: ©  Lyle Kamenir

malformalady:

The overgrown indoor swimming pool area at the abandoned Grossinger’s Catskills Resort. Grossinger’s Resort in the town of Liberty in New York’s Catskills was famous back in its heyday. Grossinger’s gained fame in 1952, when it became the first resort to use artificial snow for its ski-fanatic patrons. Grossinger’s was closed in 1986 and to this day sits abandoned next to a still working golf-course.

Photo credit: © Lyle Kamenir

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austrias-piano:

sleighdirector:

Here’s the inside of a deserted Blockbuster

beautiful ancient ruins

austrias-piano:

sleighdirector:

Here’s the inside of a deserted Blockbuster

beautiful ancient ruins

(Source: mountainshape, via stopdeandasgay)

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