Creepiest, bleakest places you've ever been to

[Anonymous]

Rochester, NY

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I visited this neighborhood in the high desert of California during the housing crash of 2008/2009. Picture foreclosure papers blowing in the wind like tumbleweeds. Boarded up 3500 square feet, 5 year old homes in a suburban community. Lots of people who bought these new "McMansions" as the neighborhood was built up in 2005/2006 for $450k only to have them be worth less than $100k a few years later. Truly a place of broken dreams. One of the most eerie places I've ever been.

Strong post. Damn.

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Echoing some similar answers here. Agree on the NY side of Niagara Falls. When we visited a family member attending St Bonaventure in NY, we found the drive through central Pennsylvania area depressing and dark and the town around the college was a bit ragged. Another spot was Crescent City, in northern CA. DH and I did a tour of Oregon and then dipped down into CA to see the redwoods national and state parks. After the buoyancy of the seaside Oregon, Crescent City seemed stark. We later read that the city had experienced multiple tsunamis, including one in the 60s that wiped out the town, so assume it was rooted in that. We were surprised at the lack of infrastructure around the parks (this was 2009, so may have changed since) and even ended up in the youth hostel (in our 40s...) for ease of access.

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Trump's fault?

Well, everything is Trump's fault, so of course.

Sadly true. So much of what ails this country is directly his fault.

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Chernobyl.

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Las Vegas - I was sick to my stomach walking through the casino at 8:00am and seeing an older woman hooked up to an oxygen tank with a credit card in the slot machine and a drink - that appeared to be a cocktail and not water.

Birkenau. It's the camp that you see in all the movies of the Holocaust when the train comes in and unloads the people headed straight to the gas chambers. It's part of Auschwitz and a few miles down the road from where the museum is. When I went to visit, the museum was packed with people but when we got to Birkenau, almost no one was there. I wasn't creeped out at the museum, but the train tracks and run down barracks really drove home how awful it was.

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Johnstown, PA

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Parts of Elyria, Ohio, 25 years ago.