Let's see what else I uncovered from the web:
Unfinished section of a Connecticut freeway
http://www.gatm.com/cthwys/ct11.html

Abandoned Pennsylvania Turnpike (apparently the most famous section like this--photos better than it looks today)
http://www.briantroutman.com/highways/abandonedpaturnpike/pictures.html

Route 66 Glenrio, Texas
http://www.qsl.net/ag5t/glenrio.htm

Oh yes, of course I have heard of Chernobyl. Didn't know about the town though. If they let tourists in, then the radiation must not be harmful? If so, why didn't people return? Very interesting indeed. Just imagine if a large city like New York was abandonded like that for some reason. Well, come to think of it, you don't have to imagine

I'm sure it's used for training purposes of some kind, and a few parts may also be bike paths, yeah a 4-lane divided bike path!
http://www.roadsites.org/losthwy/us-101_cp/nb101_leaving_las_pulgas_road.jpg
Main Site:
http://www.roadsites.org/losthwy/us-101_ca.html

This happens fairly often, just never before on such a scale. I was stationed at Fort Riley, Kansas where the base expanded over a wide area engrossing old US 77 which used to head south from Riley, KS, but now goes west and then follows Kansas Highway 82 south.

http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&q=Riley,+KS,+USA&ll=39.262031,-96.852722&spn=0.12786,0.232086&t=h&z=12&iwloc=addr



That is very cool and quite sad If it were any other US city, it would not look like that! Poor Detroit!

Abandoned places are very interesting subject. I would like to do urban exploration but there's not many places to look here. Usually abandoned houses. There are only a few abandoned towns in Europe and mostly in Italy and Greece. When I visited Cretes island I found a small abandoned village with only one people living in it. It is a tourist attraction but few people know about it. Here's some information:

http://www.crete.tournet.gr/Remains_of_a_Traditional_Village-si-555-en.jsp

I have also visited catacombs in Paris, abandoned casino in Italy and abandoned mansion in Estonia.

Some links

Opacity - pictures of old asylums and mental institutions

http://www.opacity.us/locations/

Here are pictures I took from abandoned racing track called 'Keimola':

http://www.opacity.us/forum/index.php?topic=4632.0

Many former F1 drivers have driven on that track. It is just a few kilometers from my house.

Interesting places

Abandoned island of Hashima in Japan. Closed since 1974.

http://home.f01.itscom.net/spiral/hashima/hashima001.html

Prora, a holiday resort built during Hitler's regime. One of the longest buildings in the world, over 4 km long. Never finished.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prora

Varosha, Cyprus. A city caught between two warring sides. Access not permitted, also landmines.

http://www.michaeltotten.com/archives/000985.html

If you like Pripyat I highly recommend playing the game 'S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadows of Chernobyl'.

Pripyat is a nice city to walk. Just beware of Monolithes and zombies

Raul thanks a lot for those new abandoned sites, i have found them really interesting, specially the city of Varosha, of the whole article ill stay with this part "Supposedly, according to Lonely Planet, there is a car dealership somewhere in the city that still has 1974 models in the showroom." i think you mentioned this before in the other thread, no? it would be great to just find it, but i didnt take it too well, why is it forbidden to enter it? it doesnt explain in the article.

In Spain, in Sitges, there's also an abandoned race track, very similar to the one near your home, just that this one has higher curves and apparently it is in better conditions than yours, look.

http://www.craksracing.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=76

http://www.foromtb.com/showthread.php?t=181749

Also quite interesting is the Island of Hashima, thanks for showing, what i always wonder is why the hell does people have the need of vandalizing these places, whats the fun of it...? if the places that are left by people were also left forver as how they were the last time that someone lived there they would be even more interesting...

That of Prora was interesting too, thanks Raul, i wasnt expecting people to have such taste in this site, its nice to know some of you do

Not harmful to go and visit the city for a day, but harmful enough to live there for months, also its not possible (well you can do it if you want) to grow vegetables on the floor due to the radiation, yet i think old farmers live near the city and keep growing vegetables etc, i saw in a documentary, but they were old, so theyll die because of the age firstly before dying because off the radiation...

In this city there's also a huge junkyard with all the vehicles from the city and other military vehicles, ill try and look for pictures since it is quite interesting.

I posted two pictures of the showroom in this thread:

http://forum.imcdb.org/forum_topic-3505-Forgotten_Fiat_dealership_in_Denmark_.html



It is located in demilitarized zone and only soldiers can go there. It's in the border of two armies. Photographing the place is not possible.



Thanks for the links! I didn't know about this track. It looks like it's in very good condition, maybe even driveable(!).

One of the places I would like to visit is Detroit. Nearly one million people have left from the city since the 1960's. Now population is little over 900,000. As a result of migration entire neighbourhoods have been left almost empty. This mean a lot of interesting places to see which all remind about the citys former glory. As we know Detroit was known for a long time as the 'car factory of the world' and almost every industry was somehow related to car manufacture. It would be great to do a pilgrimage to this city. I'm also a fan of soul music so it doesn't get better than this! (Detroit was one of the soul capitals).

Some locations photographed here:
http://www.detroitruins.net/locations.php

Many interesting museums:
http://www.detroithistorical.org/

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More interesting places

Bussana Vecchia, abandoned village in Italy. Because of several earthquakes it was considered too dangerous place to live.

http://www.bussana.com/vecchia/org/album_bv/BussanaVecchia/index.html

Bodie, California. A boomtown of 10,000 people in the 1880's was abandoned in the 1930's. Very well preserved place. (chicomarx posted already one picture of this place)

http://www.bodie.com/

Olympic village built in 1936 near Berlin. Immediately after the olympics it became a German military academy and later it was abandoned by Soviet army.

http://www.urban-travel.org/elstal/index.html

An abandoned place, which now a historical site (but a site, where you can stroll around), very recommended, too:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmanskop

Sooner or later the village of the workers will be destroyed, too:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuquicamata
The huge mining-waste-mountains are coming closer and closer. They have built a new village in a distance. The old one will be filled up with stones.

Yet more nice places, you know many Raul , Ingo, i find Kolmanskop quite interesting, i read about it yesterday, the sand its slowly getting in the houses and filling them up, the mansions are quite nice.

Many more pictures of the dealership in Denmark
http://www.autobild.de/mmg/mm_bildergalerie_668983.html?tab=0&page=0&bid=0&m=&e=- &i=

And another warehouse in Portugal full of vintage cars

http://www.ziza.es/2007/11/08/Sorpresa_en_la_nueva_propiedad_57_fotos.html

You're right, these mansions in the desert are a very strange topic. They were built after 1908 by the German colonists. They had no idea about the climate in the desert, so they built the houses in the same style like at home.
And this is a very strange thing for us Germans, to see all this typical old-style typical German houses (an the other stuff, too, down to the glass-bottles) far away in the African desert.

The history of German colonization is much smaller, compared with the English, French and even Spanish, so for us it's absolutely strange to see "our" old stuff (or old regulations or behaviour) far away on annother continent.
At least, nowadays only in Namibia this will happen. In the other former colonies nearly nothing is left. The most popular reminiscence of German colonization is the Tsingtao-brewery in China.

A propos Chile, annother intersting place:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chacabuco
some pics:
http://www.albumdesierto.cl/ingles/2chacabu.htm

Oh, a good summary of such places at wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_town#South_Georgia

You act like it is the ancient ruins of Greece! It is really not quite so nice if you have actually been there. the crime rate is high and it is not safe to explore certain parts. The only place that's really "safe" is the downtown, and even that's not such a pleasant place to be. Although there is quite good architecture, especially if you enjoy skyscrapers like I do. And that abandoned tower I posted about earlier is quite interesting. But it's still not really a place I would aspire to.

I love exploring abandoned places. I've done lots of exploration of abandoned hospitals and houses within the past year. You can view my pictures on Flickr:

http://flickr.com/photos/aqualite/

This is my far the most interesting ofo the places I've visited, I think:
http://flickr.com/photos/aqualite/sets/72157604467506990/

Check the "dead body" :D:
http://flickr.com/photos/aqualite/2402664233/in/set-72157604467506990/

Few more interesting places


Kadychan in Siberia, Russia. A town which was heavily dependent from mining operations. But when the mine was closed people didn't see a reason to live there anymore.

http://retardzone.com/2007/11/15/abandoned-city-in-russia/

Goldfield, Nevada. Once the biggest city in Nevada with a population of 30,000 people. It's nearly a ghost town because only 500 people live there now.

http://www.ghosttowngallery.com/htme/goldfield.htm
http://www.westernmininghistory.com/gallery/nevada/goldfield/modern/towns/1/

Kings Park Psychiatric Center, New York. Numerous hospital buildings and a power plant. A huge place to explore and it is quite easy to get lost in there.

http://www.opacity.us/site3_kings_park_psychiatric_center.htm

One other interesting institution was Philadelphia State Hospital. It was just demolished a year ago. What makes these places interesting is that they were very self-reliant. Own power plants, all services under same roof (car garage, movie theatre etc.) Underground tunnel network connected all buildings.

http://www.opacity.us/site10_philadelphia_state_hospital_byberry.htm

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I think these were the most interesting places I know. Can't think of many more places.

Ecclefechan that was cool ! you are a murderer im going to report you, dont think that this is going to stay as it is

Now its time to see Raul's new places

A propos Namibia (a bit off topic, it belongs more to the database).
I love the Bud Specer-movies from the 70ies, so "Piedone L'Africano", which was set in South Africa and mainly Southwest-Africa, the later Namibia.

For a very short time, at the chase scene in the Namib-desert (the police Lancruiser's are following the ambulance), you could see on the rolling-over police-cars written the German word "Polizei" - strange, 60 years after it wasn't a German colony any more.