Abandoned buildings, especially those displaying beautiful craftsmanship and capturing a previous period of history, often have a tragic beauty about them. These buildings not only perfectly capture the death of the past, but also a lost time of elegance, or period of profound privilege for some and oppression for others.
Former mental hospitals are especially creepy,
evoking thoughts of horrors that must have existed
in times before the current psychotropic medications. And a time, when people could be put into these institutions against their will. Some people never got out and
were probably sane; left to rot slowly, cut off from their former life.
And yet, there is an undoubted mystery about these
buildings, which evokes curiosity and
stirs the imagination.
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| An abandoned castle in Belgium Flickr Bert Kaufmann |
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| Sutton Scarsdale Hall , Derbyshire Flickr Philandthehounds |
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| Renwick Smallpox Hospital Flickr Doug Letterman |
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| Nocton Hall Hospital Flickr Lplatebigcheese |
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| Abandoned house, New Brunswick, Canada |
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| Abandoned barn in Wisconsin, USA |
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| The Henry River Mill Village, North Carolina, USA, of The Hunger Games |
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| Front of a decaying Italianate house located at 6396 State Route 78 at Reinersville in Manchester Township, Morgan County, Ohio, United States. It was built in 1870. |
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| Abandoned house in Mouscron, Belgium. |
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| Abandoned Teutonic castle tower in Kurortnoe (Gross-Wonsdorf) in Kaliningrad oblas. |
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| Castell Dinas Brân, Wales |
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| Abandoned Fireplace, Pravda Castle |
Books To Read
The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins - is a dystopian novel. A fight to the death on live TV.
