Creepiest, bleakest places you've ever been to

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I’m sure this has been mentioned but South of the Border on I95

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Anonymous wrote:Chernobyl.

Also, Soviet era apartment blocks and apartments in Ukraine and Russia.

I know it will sound weird, but I grew up in one of these blocks and they are nostalgic to me. In fact there is a FB community where people post pictures of Soviet era landscapes, so I am not the only one.

I grew up in (West) Berlin, and could see them driving through to West Germany. Same thing, same style. I don't find them creepy either.


Utica and Rome, NY on the other hand....

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Anonymous wrote:I’m sure this has been mentioned but South of the Border on I95

We moved from South Carolina to DC and drove that stretch of I-95 several times in the process.

I insisted that we stop there just to check it out.

it was horrible.

The public bathrooms I've been to in Mexico were 100% cleaner

[Anonymous]

Centrailia, PA

It has been burning underground since the 60’s. Government declared eminent domain but some residents have stayed despite. You drive thru and smoke rises from cracks in the road.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centralia,_Pennsylvania

[Anonymous]

Olympic Peninsula- around Aberdeen, so not the side by Port Angeles (which is beautiful).

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Baltimore

Northern Neck of VA in winter

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Anonymous wrote:The gated community in Scottsdale where I got lost on a walk and the sun was setting. I couldn't get my bearings, my phone died, I thought I might be lost forever.

Going through Butte, Montana on a greyhound bus.

Downtown Detroit on a Saturday night in the 90s. No people and so much steam rising from the streets.

That reminds me of a horror/thriller movie we recently watched. A young couple looking for a new home gets trapped in the community.

Vivarium

Hoping to find the perfect place to live, a couple travel to a suburban neighbourhood in which all the houses look identical. But when they try to leave the labyrinth-like development, each road mysteriously takes them back to where they started.

[Anonymous]

For a long time, Winslow, AZ was the archetype for me, but there is a bit of a renaissance now.

https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-winslow-arizona-20150116-story.html
https://www.legendsofamerica.com/az-winslow/

There's a statue and a mural to backdrop selfies a'la the Eagles song. It used to be an incredibly vibrant city, located at the junction of multiple railroad lines and having a large trading post. But the Interstate 40 bypass really tanked it. Tumbleweeds.

[Anonymous]

Agree Gary IN is a corpse of a town. Those dead factories and huge empty oil tanks, the few huge smokestacks still belching out smoke-it’s really apocalyptic. I went to ND and every time we went to Chicago we’d be really quiet when Gary came into view. It just has that effect on you.

[Anonymous]

Chris Arnade wrote a book called "Dignity" recently that profiled the people of various forgotten places and one was Gary. It's really eye-opening.

[Anonymous]

Gary, Indiana

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Anonymous wrote:I grew up in a town in New England that had an abandoned mental institution in it. It was about the size of college campus, dozens of large brick abandoned buildings. Very creepy.

I think I know what you are talking about. Tons of photographers go there now to take pics, and use the abandoned buildings as backdrops. Very cool.

[Anonymous]

Sea World in Orlando. I was just...sad...for days after that.

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Anonymous wrote:Richmond Hill on Montserrat, a load of houses and villas that were just left and abandoned after the volcano erupted. Some still have groceries in the cupboard and books on shelves.

Yes! Montserrat is super-haunted and so creepy. The locals tell some crazy ghost stories.

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Anonymous wrote:The entire state of New Jersey

Even the “nice” parts of NJ look like they need a good coat of paint.

NJ resident here. In true Jersey fashion, f*** off.

+1

NJ gets such a bad rap from people who have never been there.