I knew I had pictures somewhere of the old abandoned lead mine that I visited a few years back. It was used from 1906-1972, and has since been converted to Missouri Mines State Historic Site. http://www.mostateparks.com/momines.htm




By the way, here is another interesting site I stumbled upon regarding abandoned places. I like this guy’s philosophy about urban exploration.
http://www.infiltration.org/ethics-nodisclaimer.html
http://www.infiltration.org/observations-abandoned.html

Nice abandoned mine Wampa! there's one in my region too that was converted into a nature reserve with animals in semifreedom, have a look at it, it was a mine from which they got iron.

This site of a guy that explores abandoned places, the explorations he makes have excellent pictures that show you it all very well, he also writes several lines about it but in Spanish, they are not too big, if you translate them you may understand it.

This is the site:
http://www.lugares-abandonados.com/index.htm

The first part is about "buildings" in general, id have a look, its quite interesting, well, i dont know how high your interest in this is, so i leave it to you

The second part, where it says "Historias de Carretera" is about roads and vehicles abandoned in them, perhaps more interesting since ti is about cars, here's the link:
http://www.lugares-abandonados.com/historias-de-carretera.htm

Once again, if you are willing to, translate it so you can know what they are talking about, well, im refering to Wampa now but this goes as well for those of you who like this stuff as well.


PD: Raul, if you happen to read this mind you that the guy of the website has the abandoned track i talked you about on hold to post soon, you may be interested

A bunker found after 63 years at the Danish beach:
http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,563021,00.html

Tanks, ships and planes underwater at Saipan:
http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,565651,00.html

There’s a abandoned asphalt road that still leads into Wilmington. The surrounding foliage has almost taken it over. Some parts of it can still be seen. Like where South 17 (Part of 421) merges into 74/76. Picture below. Whenever I take this route, every once in a while I’ll look to see if its still there. These snapshots are from google maps.



It was cut in half when 421 was built (or so I’m told) On the other side the road continues onward to the Cape Fear river where it ultimately stops. The USS North Carolina Memorial Road merges into it. Another picture below.

Oh my gosh! Neptune, you're back!!

An abandoned theme park in East-Berlin:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/breakdennis/sets/72157605233495983/

This guy had also created a very good photo-stream of an abandoned hospital:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/breakdennis/sets/72157604830680529/

and about the Olympic village from 1936:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/breakdennis/sets/72157604423658488/

and some more abandoned places:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/breakdennis/sets/

I haven't got much, but here are two road stubs. They're for proposed extensions of the Seaford-Oyster Bay Expressway.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NY135stubend.JPG

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:South_NY_135_Stub-Exit_1E.jpg

Were it not for anti-highway zealotry, the road would've actually reached Oyster Bay. Not only that, it would've gone from Wantagh State Parkway towards Jones Beach, to a never built bridge across the Long Island Sound.
http://www.nycroads.com/roads/NY-135/
http://www.nycroads.com/crossings/oysterbay-rye/

Here's the abandoned Kings Park Psychiatric Center, part of which is in the Nissequogue River State Park:
http://www.lioddities.com/Asylums/Kings_Park/index.html

And some other abandones places on Long Island:
http://www.lioddities.com/Abandoned/index.html

Checkout this abandoned building CCF http://www.therealwaverlyhills.com/

Until now I had no time to look closer to this page, but youshall find good pictures there: http://www.deadmalls.com/

The former embassy of the Iraq in the DDR: http://einestages.spiegel.de/static/topicalbumbackground/6921/die_geisterbotscha- ft_von_berlin.html

Nice topic - I like it too.

There's one place which I'm quite fascinated about, which just recently has become a minor focus in the media (there was even an article in A-magasinet today), it's the Lier mental hospital. It's a centre of attention because it's also reportedly haunted and is regularly visited by many urban explorers and ghost hunters. Eight buildings in the hospital are still used, but the remaining three were closed in 1985-86. Unfortunately there is a discussion going on if they're going to demolish the abandoned buildings or not. Anyways, I got to check it out sometime because it's not very far from where I live.

Here is a site with some more info and pictures, but you'll probably need google translate

http://gamle-lier-mentalsykehus.piczo.com/?g=1&cr=5