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22/05/2022

Urban explorers have never been left indifferent by abandoned equipment. Especially large aircraft, like this IL-76TD. It was produced at the end of 1982 for military needs and under a different modification (IL-76MD), which stood for modified long-range. The main differences from the previous version were an increase in the carrying capacity up to 48 tons, an increase in the maximum takeoff weight up to 190 tons and an increase in flight range with a load of 40 tons up to 4,200 km.
Until the second half of the 90s, the aircraft was part of the Ukrainian Air Force. Later it was converted into a civilian version – Il-76TD (long-range transport). The military equipment was dismantled along with the aft firing system, and the aircraft itself went to Russia, where it flew before 2003. After it was left in storage, which ended in its destruction.

25/04/2022

Li Yang was born in 404. It is the name of his hometown in the deep Gobi desert in western China, where China started making its first nuclear bomb in the late 1950s. The city was built in 1958; it occupied an area of 4 km2 and included a factory, police station, school, and a residential area. In the 1990s, it was China’s largest nuclear base, and there were almost 100,000 people who lived there.

Due to large-scale cave-ins, most people living in 404 were relocated to Jiayuguan in 2006. Now, only some 1,000 residents remain. Countless identical housing blocks stand empty, their doors sealed shut with walls of brick.

When Li Yang went back to 404, now almost a deserted city, to take photos in September 2014, he found a plutonium manual outside of the public bathing room’s gate. The handbook was universal in 404 residents’ homes. Despite its small size, the city had similar facilities to other large cities in China. This was because 404 was designated a “closed city,” meaning there were residential and travel restrictions in place.
https://abandonedway.com/2022/04/25-stunning-photos-of-404-abandoned-city-by-li-yang/

13/04/2022

top 5 Beautiful Abandoned places in Crimea. For years now, urban explorers have traveled across Crimea finding and photographing these intriguing empty Soviet factories, toppling houses, and crumbling chapels.
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Today, we run down the top abandoned places in Crimea. Find photos of top 5 Beautiful Abandoned places in Crimea. For years now, urban explorers have traveled across Crimea finding and photographing these intriguing empty Soviet factories, toppling houses, and crumbling chapels.

13/04/2022

In March, 2006, the main building of Taunton State Hospital suffered one of the largest fires in the Massachusetts history. The Taunton State Hospital was demolished in 2009. In 2012 the last remaining parts of the facility in use were officially closed by the state.
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In March, 2006, the main building of Taunton State Hospital suffered one of the largest fires in the Massachusetts history. The Taunton State Hospital was demolished in 2009. In 2012 the last remaining parts of the facility in use were officially closed by the state.

13/04/2022

Abandoned Enchanted Forest Theme Park in Maryland. The Enchanted Forest opened in Ellicott City as a storybook-themed park in August 1955 and closed its doors in 1989.
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Pictures show Abandoned Enchanted Forest Theme Park in Maryland. The Enchanted Forest opened in Ellicott City as a storybook-themed park in August 1955 and closed its doors in 1989.

12/04/2022

50 Stunning Photos of the Joliet Correctional Center in Illinois. Opened in 1858 the Illinois State Penitentiary, Joliet, now known simply as the Old Joliet Prison.

We prepared 50 Stunning Photos of the Joliet Correctional Center in Illinois. Opened in 1858 the Illinois State Penitentiary, Joliet, now known simply as the Old Joliet Prison. Joliet Prison Photo

12/04/2022

Wheatsworth Mill is an abandoned grain mill originally built in 1808, in Hamburg, New Jersey. The abandoned Wheatsworth Mill building was listed on Preservation New Jersey's Most Endangered Historic Places list in 2012.
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https://abandonedway.com/2022/04/wheatsworth-mill-ruins-in-new-jersey/

12/04/2022

The Marlboro State Psychiatric Hospital was an abandoned site, often visited by urbex and ghost hunters. But for over years, it was a state-run institution for the mentally disabled. Marlboro Psychiatric Hospital opened its doors in 1931 and remained active for nearly 70 years by the State of New Jersey. Between its cottages and building, it accommodated about 800 patients of all ages. By 1978, the hospital only treated adults and adolescents. Many patients died while at the hospital, prompting the designation of a cemetery on campus grounds for bodies that went unclaimed by family; 924 marked graves are still open for visitation from the public. The Marlboro State Psychiatric Hospital was demolished and all demolition officially completed in early 2015.
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https://abandonedway.com/2022/04/abandoned-marlboro-psychiatric-hospital-in-new-jersey/

12/04/2022

Built in 1917, this is the only remaining McMyler Coal Dumper left in the New York area. This one is in Port Reading NJ on the Arthur Kill. In a vast regional network of coal mines, breakers, railroads, and manufacturing hubs, these machines provided a vital link that helped fuel New York’s industrial age, transferring massive amounts of coal brought by rail from Pennsylvania and the Alleghenies into ships entering the harbor. A McMyler Dumper could unload a 72-ton car of coal every two and a half minutes, operating on a continuous loop for maximum efficiency.

McMyler Coal Dumper storied efficiency came to an abrupt halt in 1951, when a pier fire sent the machine crashing into the water. The largest components of the dumper were salvaged, and the rest was rebuilt using parts from comparable unloader purchased from another facility. Within four months, Big Mac was back to work. Reading Railroad was absorbed by Conrail in 1976, but Big Mac was still in service, unloading coal for the few power plants that still used this fuel. It was finally shuttered in 1983, and hasn’t moved since. The wooden kickback trestle that extends into the harbor has deteriorated greatly over the years. In 2011, the pan and chute have actually fallen off the tower, most likely due to the stress induced by the high winds of Hurricane Irene.

The rusted McMyler Coal Dumper remains anchored in place, though marred with graffiti and inhabited by a colony of aggressive Canada Geese. Though scrappers and vandals have made off with much of the equipment left inside the facility, a few larger items – including a pair of steam engines – are still visible inside one of the most interesting abandoned places in New Jersey. We prepared stunning photos of abandoned Port Reading’s McMyler Coal Dumper.
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12/04/2022

There have been several state mental institutions in New Jersey that have closed their doors over the years, each with a chilling backstory. Horrendous things happened at these institutions, among others in New Jersey, but they are no more. Only a few asylums still remain, and one of the most terrifying is still in use. Trenton Psychiatric Hospital is a mental hospital run by the state of New Jersey and located in Trenton. It is not entirely abandoned as it still houses a 400-bed psychiatric hospital serving a designated New Jersey population.

The New Jersey Lunatic Asylum (later renamed the Trenton Psychiatric Hospital) was founded on May 15, 1848. It’s completion marked the opening of the first mental hospital in the entire state, and the very first asylum ever constructed around the Kirkbride plan. However, the original facility quickly filled up again, and several more additions were completed. The facility’s transformation also included a name change to “New Jersey State Hospital” in 1893.

The facility was founded by Dorothea Dix, an activist and advocate for the mentally ill. While the aim was to help care for and rehabilitate patients with psychiatric issues, the asylum took a dark turn after Dr. Henry Cotton took control of the facility in 1907. Cotton was a firm believer that the onset and persistence of mental illness in a person stemmed from infections within one’s body. In order to preserve and restore the troubled minds of the patients under his care, the doctor and his staff took to removing the patient’s teeth. It was Cotton’s belief that the teeth were the most likely location in a patient’s body to house infections. However, if symptoms persisted after teeth removal, additional body parts were systematically removed. The next most common organs to be removed if tooth extractions failed were the tonsils and sinus. From there the patient could loose a number of internal organs, including but not limited to the colon, cervix, ovaries, gall badder, stomach, spleen, and testicles. Based solely upon his own research and experimentation, Cotton publicly reported a wonderful success rate for his patients.

Though Dr. Cotton died in 1933, several of his unethical and inhumane practices remained standard at the facility until the 1960s. By 1954 there were 4,237 people at Trenton Psychiatric Hospital but with the increasing use of medication for mental illness, that number began to drop and wards were closed. The elegant Kirkbride style administration building was demolished in 1971 and replaced with a more traditional hospital structure, and the name was again changed to Trenton Psychiatric Hospital. As patient numbers decreased over time, more and more of the buildings in the complex were closed off and left abandoned. The New Jersey state still operates a 400-bed psychiatric hospital on the site, many of the older buildings stand empty and neglected. Though the abandoned portions of the facility are not open to the public, these photos will take you through the asylum.
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https://abandonedway.com/2022/04/history-of-an-abandoned-trenton-psychiatric-hospital/

30/03/2022

Grey Rocks ski resort was Quebec’s first ski hill and was once the ski capital of the Laurentian Mountains. Gray Rocks was founded in 1905 by George Wheeler, an American from New Hampshire who arrived in the region in 1894 as a lumberjack.
The Gray Rocks hotel remained in the family for over three generations. George Wheeler’s granddaughter Lucille won the first Canadian Olympic medal in alpine skiing (bronze) in 1956 at Cortina d’Ampezzo in Italy. Funny fact, Montreal almost obtained the 1956 Winter Game as it came second to Italy. It was at Gray Rocks that Lucille Weeler used her first skis.
From the 1950s to the 1970s, Gray Rocks was known as the dean of the Laurentian resorts. Many American families came for golf, tennis and swimming in the summer, and ski packages in the winter. Even if Philip Robinson, one of the former owners, was aware that the hotel needed renovations, the final uppercut came from New York. In the late 1980s, he had already lost over a million dollars and a half annually with the ski center. Gray Rocks ski resort and hotel closed its doors in 2009 after more than a century of operation.
70% of the Gray Rocks main building was destroyed by a suspicious fire on the evening of 25 November 2014.
You can find more history about the Gray Rocks as well as a ton of more photos here 👉
https://abandonedway.com/2022/03/30-stunning-photos-show-abandoned-gray-rocks-ski-resort/

29/03/2022

In response to overcrowding in the hospitals at St. Peter and Rochester, the 1885 state legislature commissioned the Third Minnesota State Hospital. When the Fergus Falls State Hospital opened its doors on July 29, 1890, it became the first state institution in northern Minnesota for patients considered insane. The hospital had a sprawling campus and large stately buildings, built according to the influential asylum plan developed by Philadelphia physician Thomas Kirkbride in the 1850s.

When the hospital opened its doors, it received two men from the Judge Probate of Otter Tail County. The next day, it received 80 more patients from the St. Peter hospital. The first patients were all men, and most of them were farmers or laborers. Women were not admitted to the institution until 1893, when 125 women were transferred from St. Peter. As the institution grew, so did the town. The population in Fergus Falls more than doubled between 1890 and 1930.

Like most mental health facilities of the time, however, Fergus Falls State Hospital was unable to effectively meet the variety of needs of the residents which included addiction, mental illness, and even simply poverty. Following World War II, improvements to mental health treatments and outpatient therapy greatly reduced the need for large facilities like this Kirkbride.

The hospital was repurposed in 1971 to welcome different categories of patients, such as drug addicts, behavior disorders, brain injury and so on. It was renamed as the Fergus Falls Regional Treatment Center in 1985. By the mid-1980s, administrators were consistently lowering the population at the hospital by transferring patients to smaller facilities and community group homes. The Fergus Falls State Hospital closed in 2005. The building is one of the only intact Kirkbride buildings in the United States and, unfortunately, remains vacant.
More photos:
https://abandonedway.com/2022/03/photographs-capture-fergus-falls-state-hospital/