Deserted Places: December 2012

Wednesday, December 26, 2012

An abandoned Detroit High School, now and then

Lewis Cass Technical High School is one of the most historic schools of Detroit. It was founded in 1907 and by 1942 it was the largest school in Michigan with 4,200 students attending the eight-storey brick and limestone building. Its alumni include musicians Diana Ross and Jack White.

In 2004 the school was moved to new, modern facilities. The old building was left abandoned, and 3 years later it was damaged by a big fire. Finally, by the end of 2011 the building was demolished.

Before the school's demolition, detroiturbex.com spent time taking pictures of each room of the building and combined them with old photos of the exact locations.

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Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Inside an abandoned military bunker in Greenland

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In the northwest of Greenland, near one the northernmost towns in the world, there's an abandoned Nike-Hercules missiles launch site at Thule Air Base. Flickr user ÐøÇ, visited the frozen underground facilities.

The photographer writes:

Rain and snow fall in from vents. The snow will melt in the summer but since the water has nowhere to go, it is slowly filling up the facility, freezing layer by layer. Ice covering the floor is over 3 feet thick and melts very little in the summer.

He also took photos of other abandoned military facilities, relics from the cold war.

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Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Inside Buzludzha, the abandoned Bulgarian Communist party monument

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From far, it looks like an abandoned flying saucer sitting on top of the hill but the Buzludzha monument is an enormous construction built on Bulgaria's Balkan mountains to mark the site where the Bulgarian Communist party was founded in 1891.

Buzludzha opened in 1981 but after the fall of communism it was left abandoned by the Bulgarian government. Since then it has been heavily vandalised and is now a destination for urban explorers and tourists.

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Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Visiting the abandoned Aldwych Tube Station

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Aldwych Tube Station, one of London's 18 "ghost stations", stayed open from 1907 till 1994 when it shut down due to low passenger numbers. The station reopened recently for weekend tours given by the London Transport Museum.

Guests got a chance to see first hand the station that was home to storage for the National Gallery during World War I and to the Elgin marbles during the Blitz, UK's bombing by Germany during World War II.

The station, has also been used as the setting for scenes for various movies and TV programs including V for Vendetta and Atonement.

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