Abandoned Hotels around the World

[RacerX]

One of my interests: Abandoned buildings / sites

Check out these abandoned hotels from places across the world from Egypt, Japan, Poland, North Korea, Zimbabwe to exotic locales such as Ohio & Louisiana

(Careful, lots of pop-ups when you first click):

http://bored-night.com/index.php/Weird/16-Abandoned-&-Decaying-Hotels-From-Around-The-World.html

[Endrik]

Spain has a lot of abandoned buildings but they are turned into squats. People just move in and live there for free. A lot of people do that if they are new in town, and start looking for a job or just visiting the place but don't have much money. Most are foreigners who travel around Europe.

[Cleveland Metal]

That Black Forest one is pretty cool.

The Randall Park Hotel they mention isn't far from me actually. Pretty funny they are all baffled about the price tags on everything, blaming it on insurance inventory stuff. Haha... Actually, they were simply just selling everything in theplace and were having liquidation sales to the public.

I remember when it was open. In the late 80's, they sent people there for mandatory sentencing of "DUI weekends". It was a punishment that was court ordered and you had to sit through movies and classes while confined there all weekend.

[atilla]

Yeah, that site is pretty cool. There's also a trend, it seems, to turn old airplanes into hotels. Here's a good example. That also has some links to people turning 727s into homes.

But about the abandoned hotels ... I'd love to do some poking around. Great for the creepy Norman Bates vibe!

[Jason1212]

That Black Forest one is pretty cool.

The Randall Park Hotel they mention isn't far from me actually. Pretty funny they are all baffled about the price tags on everything, blaming it on insurance inventory stuff. Haha... Actually, they were simply just selling everything in theplace and were having liquidation sales to the public.

I remember when it was open. In the late 80's, they sent people there for mandatory sentencing of "DUI weekends". It was a punishment that was court ordered and you had to sit through movies and classes while confined there all weekend.

There is a hotel here in Dallas that the Beatles, Marilyn Monroe, Elvis and many others stayed in back in the day. Now it's a jail.

[Cleveland Metal]

Good way to use it! haha...


Ron, check this out, it's not too far from here, it's been used in quite a few movies.

http://www.deadohio.com/mansfieldreformatory.htm

http://www.mrps.org/ the photo gallery is cool.

[Axewielder]

I used to work a few miles from a bizarre ghost town in Fort Mill, SC. I'd heard there was "something odd" on an unmarked road near the border with NC. Me and some friends went to check it out after lunch, and my mind was blown. There was a small stone castle with bronze Romanesque statues, a rundown outdoor amphitheater, an even larger castle, an abandoned 21 story tower in the middle of nowhere, and more! There were no markings as to what any of this stuff was. Eventually we figured it out: it was the ruins of Heritage USA, the theme park that Jim Bakker and the PTL built in the 70's/80's. Amazing! Pics are here:

http://illicitohio.com/SBNO/heritage/tour001.htm

[dg]

Ron, you might get a kick out of these.

A blogger whose hobby is traveling & exploring abandoned places. Here are his pic sets:

http://brnation.d2sector.net/detroit_ue.htm

Abandoned Soviet nuclear lighthouse:

http://www.englishrussia.com/?p=2198

[Cleveland Metal]

I used to check out this site that I eventuaslly lost, it was created by a young woman in Russia that would drive her motorcycle through the abandoned Chernobyl areas. She had access to the area as her father was someone important. I remember some areas, she could only drive through and not stop cuz the earth was still radioactive.

Some amazing stuff she had on her site. Pics of abandoned houses and building where they had gieger counters on the wall that looked liked clocks! Lotsa intersting stories. Wildlife that was living where humans couldn't ... Wild stuff. Wish I could find that again.

[Cleveland Metal]

Wow. Search fu is on today!

I think this is it.

http://www.kiddofspeed.com/

[zeegler]

I would love to have the money to be able to just galivant around the world exploring places like that. That would be a lot of fun, and very interesting.

[atilla]

Wow. Search fu is on today!

I think this is it.

http://www.kiddofspeed.com/

National Geographic just had a great story about cruising through the Chernobyl area.

[sevser]

Strange to see buildings and land sitting idol...I don't think anything has sat abandon around here since the recession in the early 80's...Me and my buds used to go through all the abandon houses...

Now a small lot will fetch a quarter million at least....and people lining up to buy it...

[tortfeaser]

I have the same strange hobby.

Check out: http://www.abandonedbutnotforgotten.com/

[Spivonious]

http://www.offroaders.com/album/centralia/centralia.htm

I really want to go here...it's only like 30 minutes north of me.