Silent victory: 20 abandoned places where nature has taken over (21 photos)
There's a special, quiet beauty in places forgotten by humans. Many have seen abandoned buildings that, despite their desolate appearance, look captivating. 
Our world is full of such empty places and objects. The most ordinary ones—cottages, train stations, mines, bunkers, and even amusement parks—remain forgotten on the fringes of history for many years for one reason or another. And while they remain alone, nature gradually reclaims them. There's something simultaneously sad and magical about these places, and they remind us once again that nature always finds its way.
1. The roller coaster is now covered in vines. 
2. The Roosevelt Gold Mine in Ohio City, Colorado, has been abandoned since 1919. 
3. Hard Hat Has Become Home to shellfish 
4. Vallone dei Mulini ("Valley of the Mills") - an abandoned valley in Sorrento (Italy) 
5. Beng Mealea (Beng Mealea, "Lotus Lake" in the literal translation from the Khmer language) - an Angkor Wat-style temple in Cambodia 
6. This abandoned train in the woods of Maine, USA, looks like it's haunted. 
7. Abandoned cottage in Britain 
8. Once this was a land of joy and merriment 
9. Akarmara - an abandoned village in Abkhazia 
10. Abandoned neighborhood in Keelung City, Taiwan 
11. Abandoned church in Virginia 
12. Old bunker Norway 
13. A forest grows on the roof of an empty villa in Italy 
14. San Juan Parangaricutiro is an uninhabited village in central Mexico 
15. An abandoned railway bridge in the Czech Republic 
16. A lonely piano became part of the landscape in Užupis in Vilnius 
17. Abandoned blacksmith shop in Kentucky, USA 
18. This barge in Belgium definitely has an interesting story. 
19. Abandoned mobile station 
20. I hope this car gets a second chance. 
