General Some abandoned places, for your consideration

[MMAPlaywright]

Willard Asylum in Willard, New York, is filled with empty suitcases from previous patients.

The Willard Asylum for the Chronic Insane opened its door in 1864, after Dorothea Dix's investigation into the treatment of the mentally ill found that most were treated poorly. It was one of the largest mental hospitals in the United States.

The first patient to arrive was Mary Rote, who was brought in in chains. By 1890, the asylum was home to over 2,000 patients.

The asylum closed its doors in 1995 due to a push for de-institutionalization, and was left abandoned. Hundreds of suitcases were found later: remnants from the people who once lived there, filled with photographs and keepsakes.

 

[NotBanjaxo]

The New York State Pavilion in Flushing Meadows, New York, was part of the World's Fair.

The futuristic-looking structures that stand in Flushing Meadows Corona Park actually date back to the early 1960s, when they were built for the New York World's Fair in 1964.

A dream team of architects, including Philip Johnson, Richard Foster, and Lev Zetlin, designed the complex, which includes observation towers, a theater, and a tent that once had a cable suspension roof.

See those things up on the towers? They still work you know.

But you're not supposed to know, so, look this way a minute...

 

[jason73]

The town of Kitsault was established in 1979 as the home community to a molybdenum mine run by the Phelps Dodge Corporation of Chicago. The community was designed for over 1,200 residents and included a shopping mall, restaurant, swimming pool and bowling alley. In 1982, prices for molybdenum crashed and the entire community was evacuated after just 18 months of existence. In 2004, the ghost town was bought by Indian-American businessman Krishnan Suthanthiran for $5.7 million; he has spent $2 million maintaining the town. In the end, he would have spent over $20 million more to fully update the town. He has also since closed the town to the public. Krishnan had hoped to turn the town in to an intellectual utopia. In which you could only be invited to. In an effort to revitalize the ghost town, Kitsault has been proposed as a location for a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal site. However; this offer has not yet been accepted. The Kitsault Project was a producer of molybdenum between 1967 and 1972 and again between 1981 and 1982. The area was ideal due to its "elevated levels of arsenic, molybdenum, cadmium, lead, and sulfur. It was referred to as, the Kitsault Molybdenum Project.”


View: https://youtu.be/SX2MvCnyRTo

 

[Robbie Hart]

Love these kind of threads

Nice one, @MMAPlaywright

Especially, the 5th pic

 

[ThatOneDude]

The Haludovo Palace Hotel was a luxurious retreat on the Mediterranean Sea in Krk, Coratia, in the 1970s.

This mid-century-style hotel opened in 1971, drawing visitors to the small Croatian island of Krk.

A year later, the founder of Penthouse Magazine, Bob Guccione, invested $45 million in the property and expanded it, turning it into the lavish Penthouse Adriatic Club Casino.

Once the Yugoslav Wars began in the early 1990s, Krk was no longer a popular travel destination, and the hotel was eventually abandoned.

Fun fact.
Tourism is subsidized by the government there. So cheap ass air fares and cheap ass amazing cruises are a thing there.

 

[ShatsBassoon]

Spoiler: Ghost town

 

[ShatsBassoon]

@conor mcgregor nut hugger love life

 

[Rambo John J]

such good thread @MMAPlaywright

 

[BeardOfKnowledge]

The Yugoslavians built an air hangar in the side of a mountain:

 

[member 3289]

Toronto Maple Leafs' trophy case, past 50 years

@Sex Chicken

 

[Sex Chicken]

Toronto Maple Leafs' trophy case, past 50 years

@Sex Chicken

You won’t be posting this in the fall.

 

[MMAPlaywright]

Not sure where this is…

 

[Rambo John J]

Badass Tread

Thanks @MMAPlaywright

 

[Jesus X]

Ross Island was a British settlement on the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in India before it was abandoned due to an earthquake.

Vegetation has all but consumed the remains of the island, which was once referred to as the "Paris of the East." In its prime, it was home to British government officials, as well as a penal settlement set up after the Indian Rebellion of 1857. The British residents made it their home with extravagant dance halls, bakeries, clubs, pools, and gardens until 1941 brought an earthquake and an invasion by the Japanese.

Ross Island was then alternately claimed by the Japanese and British until 1979 when the island was given to the Indian Navy, which established a small base there.

This is some indiana jones shit.

 

[Robbie Hart]

Love this kind of stuff
It’s eerie

 

[Robbie Hart]

Badass Tread

Thanks @MMAPlaywright

Stop sucking his member

 

[megatherium]

Thkaba-Yerdy Church Ingushetia

 

[megatherium]

Sassanian era Fire Temple Darrehshahr, Ilam

 

[jason73]

 

[megatherium]

Daqin Pagoda, Xi'an, China. Considered by historians to be built in the 600s, some instead believe it originally was a Buddhist temple. A supposed drawing of prophet Jonah can be found inside.


Mongolia. Although this is not a photo of a church, this epitaph featuring Syriac writing from Mongolia demonstrates how Mongolians were in fact a part of the Church of the East. It is said that the Mongolian alphabet was influenced by the Aramaic alphabet.

By Foot To China: Mission of The Church of the East, to 1400

aina.org

 

[Rambo John J]

Some of these places are pretty creepy


I like it

 

[megatherium]

Bosnian tombstones from the Christian era. The Bosnian Church was a Christians Gnostic Church influenced by Bogomils and Paulicians that was persecuted by both the Eastern and Western branches of Christianity on a regular basis with Bosnia finally converting to Islam as a result.

 

[Rambo John J]

 

[Judobill]

I used to like those threads by Passive Jay about the abandoned buildings in Detroit.

 

[Rambo John J]