Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

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.

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

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.

Gary, Indiana

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.

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.

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 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.

Baltimore

Northern Neck of VA in winter

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

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 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 wrote:

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....

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