20 abandoned places where time has stopped (21 photos)

Our world is changing rapidly, cities are growing, and technology is rapidly developing.





But there are corners of the planet where life has come to a standstill. Once noisy and prosperous, they now quietly slumber, gradually being absorbed by nature. These places fascinate with their mysterious beauty, like the scenery for a post-apocalyptic film. These are castles, fortresses and mansions, factory workshops, hospitals and sanatoriums, transport that will never go or fly again, and entire settlements abandoned by their inhabitants forever. They have a special aesthetic and poetry of decline - a reminder that nothing lasts forever. They seem to tell us that even the most grandiose creations of man can one day become only a modest part of the landscape.

1. Abandoned Castle in Sintra, Portugal



2. Church on Woodward Avenue, Detroit, Michigan





3. Old Water Mill (Colorado, USA)



4. Abandoned railway tunnel (Paris, France)



5. The Well of Initiation on the territory of the palace and park complex Quinta da Regaleira near Sintra in Portugal



6. A ghost town destroyed by the Spanish Civil War (Belchite, Spain)



7. The skeleton of a country house in Norway, which is gradually turning into a forest



8. Ship that ran aground (County Louth, Ireland)



9. Church of Saint-Étienne-le-Vieux (Église Saint-Étienne-le-Vieux) is a former Catholic church in the old town of Caen (Calvados, France)



10. Yellow brick road in the forgotten theme park "Land of Oz" (North Carolina, USA)



11. On board the abandoned Orient Express in Belgium



12. Abandoned greenhouse, Villa Maria, Northern Italy



13. Sunken in the Red sea merchant ship



14. Burnt nightclub in Austria



15. Abandoned country house



16. Remains of an old palace (Belgium)



17. Hotel del Salto (Colombia)



18. Abandoned Le Quesnel Castle in France



19. A crumbling castle in the village of Kopice, Poland



20. The abandoned fishing village of Hutuwan on Shengshan Island in the Shengsi Archipelago at the mouth of the Yangtze River, China