12 Most Amazing Abandoned Places

whenever we see an old building or location that's been abandoned we find ourselves wondering about it we wonder who or what used to be there we wonder what happened to it that led to it being abandoned and left standing alone sometimes those tales are sad but sometimes they can be strangely inspiring check out all the amazing abandoned places in this video and see if they inspire a sense of wonder in you [Music] the grand old city of een wah might be a ruin but it's a magnificent ruin for more than three hundred and fifty years it was the capital of the kingdoms that existed in Myanmar which was once known as Burma it might still be the capital of the land today if it hadn't been for a series of severe earthquakes that rocked it in 1839 and forced its residents to flee in terror never to return NY had been through a lot over the centuries including sacking fires and prolonged periods of looting the earthquakes proved to be the final straw after which there was neither the money nor the motivation to rebuild the aging infrastructure yet again when the city's walls were still standing they formed the outline of a lion protecting the pagoda sand palaces that stood within them nowadays the only full-time residents are cattle and livestock although you'll still find a few people inside the big iock a young monastery which is entirely built out of teak there you can book yourself a tour of the deserted city which you'll be guided around on a horse-drawn cart during the busiest and most brutal phases of the First World War evacuating soldiers from the battlefield to a hospital wasn't always possible instead drastic solutions had to be found in order to provide for the sick and the wounded and hospitals don't come much more drastic than the carrier Susan a secret underground hospital carved into a limestone quarry in northern France photographer and urban explorer Mark ah Scott located the site after studying Clues left in the diaries of soldiers who had served in the war and were treated in the makeshift hospital once he's located access he was astounded to find that stretchers chairs tables and even lanterns were still at the site left in exactly the same positions they've been in when the hospital was abandoned due to bombing more than 100 years ago the precise location of the hospital is being kept a secret while experts work to ensure that no dangerous explosives still exist in or around it many bankers and Finance ears did well for themselves during Italy's economic boom period of the early 1960s but the eccentric entrepreneur Mario Bono did better than most and he knew exactly what he wanted to do with his money he was going to build a Las Vegas style entertainment city in his home country and he chose the small village of consolo to do it in Bano bought up every plot of land in the town and forced the residents to move elsewhere he then raised the existing buildings to the ground and started making new ones according to his own unique vision the new console uh which man yo referred to as the city of toys was to include luxury hotels and shopping centers grand ballrooms and theaters 5-star restaurants and other tourist attractions unfortunately for him the main road to con Sona was washed away by a storm shortly after he'd built a mock medieval castle next to the entrance having no road meant there was no access for customers and baño was forced to abandon his grand project it's been slowly falling to pieces ever since the Devil's slide bunker in Pacifica California was built with one simple purpose in mind it was there to give American soldiers eyes on the sea and the sky the bunker is actually an old triangulation station which was busy during World War two but has been empty for 70 years the occupants of the bunker would keep watch from within using binoculars and if they saw any ships approaching they would radio through to their friends who manned a nearby six-inch gun that would solve the problem it was a basic system which became obsolete thanks to advances in missile defense technology and so the military had no further use for it after 1949 after the land was sold the new owner dug out much of the earth around and below the bunker for a construction project that never happened leaving the crumbling remains of the bunker perched precariously on top of its hill it's considered to be dangerous and might collapse at any moment but that hasn't stopped generations of graffiti artists visiting it to leave their tags on the walls when the Bethlehem iron company built a steel works in Bethlehem Pennsylvania in 1873 it was a brand-new revolutionary idea it turned out to be a great one many of the structures and buildings that America is best known for were built with steel that came from Bethlehem Steel including the Golden Gate Bridge in the Empire State Building the company and its incredible steel mill would also make a decisive contribution to the Allied war effort during the 1940s over a third of the steel used to make American armaments during the Second World War came from Bethlehem during its best every year which was 1957 Bethlehem produced 19 million tons of steel and made more than two and a half billion dollars in sales revenue sadly a series of lows hit the company during the 1970s and 80s ranging from foreign competition and changes in technology to poor management and ill-advised attempts to move into plastics and real estate they struggled on but were forced to declare bankruptcy in 2001 there was a plan to turn the site into a Smithsonian Museum but it failed to materialize leaving the bulk of the site derelict saved for the SteelStacks Performing Arts Center San Francisco was the place to be during the California Gold Rush everyone had money and the city was a hub of exciting creative projects one of them was the creation of the Sutro Baths a process that was begun by Adolph Sutro in the 1880s the engineer and former mayor of San Francisco had made millions during the gold rush and millions more by designing safe tunnels for silver mining in Nevada Sutras vision for the site was initially a mere aquarium but his ambition soon became grandeur soon his aquarium had an artificial tide pod and then it had expanded to become a vast public bathhouse of the kind he'd seen on a trip to Europe by the time he was done building there were six sea water pool houses with glass domes a promenade a museum and an ice rink Grand Designs come with grand prices and by the mid-1950s the cost of maintenance began to outweigh the revenue in from visitors the city had already decided to close and demolish the attraction Wynn strangely for a place full of water it burned down in 1966 all that's left today are the contours of the building and the impressions of the old diving pools the Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia Pennsylvania was supposed to be a more humane alternative to the prison's of the time when it was built it turned out to be anything but most prisons active at the time of its opening in 1829 were privately owned and operated manned by corrupt officials and packed with vice and crime the penitentiary was envisioned as some where prisoners might be rehabilitated instead of taught new forms of criminal endeavor the castle-like structure cost $800,000 to build which was a fortune for the time it had flushing toilets in every cell private exercise areas for every prisoner and a guarantee of three good meals each day for each inmate there was a catch though prisoners had to be utterly silent they couldn't speak to the guards or each other and even had to wear shoe covers so their footsteps didn't echo in essence every prisoner there experienced solitary confinement and many of them were driven insane by it eventually the culture of the prison was changed and it became more modern but it had a bad reputation and was closed in 1971 it's now open as a museum open for the public to look around the decaying cells and corridors you can stand right in the middle of st. Petersburg in Russia just where the mojko river meets grifs Tov Lane and you might still have no idea that the enormous demidov mansion is right in front of you it's almost completely hidden by the buildings and trees around it which would allow occupants total privacy and seclusion if there were any occupants there to give it to the mansion was built by Grigory demidov grandson of the famous Nikita Demidov in 1759 demikhov called on these services of architect Sava Sheva Kinski to design his palatial home which included a grand staircase that led all the way out into the ornate gardens Grigory passed the mansion on to his children and his children's children but the last of the demo dogs passed away in 1870 and the house was leased to an English club in conservatory it went on to be the iceburg central design bureau during the soviet era but has since fallen into total disuse and disrepair the facade is flaking and crumbling and the windows are all boarded up we've all heard of a gingerbread house but how about a whole gingerbread castle it sounds like something out of a fairy tale and for a long time it was the castle building in Hamburg new jersey opened in 1928 after its owner and financier fh bennett was inspired by seeing a stage production of The Tale of Hansel and Gretel at the local Metropolitan Opera for more than 50 years the candy-themed building was open to the public as a miniature theme park but by the 1980s that was showing its age and nobody was coming to play anymore it was sold to a succession of new owners briefly becoming both a nightclub and a haunted house attraction but since 2004 it's been fenced off from the main roads and looks to be badly decaying both inside and out as recently as early 2019 there was talk that a new owner had bought the gingerbread Castle and would restore it to its former glory but there's no sign of that work beginning yet for now it's very much abandoned for a hotel that's been abandoned for over a decade the paragon hotel in Italy is still stunningly beautiful we can only imagine how incredible it must have looked when it was open the huge grand neoclassical style hotel opened in 1882 and was the most prestigious building in its home city for more than a century even to this day there are still white drapes hanging from the ceilings of the ballrooms which looks like they could still be made ready to welcome well-heeled guests at 24 hours notice it's not even clear why the decision to close the Paragon was made in 2008 it was still a favorite place of the rich and famous and wasn't thought to be struggling financially it still receives visitors today but these days the majority of those visitors are urban explorers who've come to take pictures and videos of the incredible fittings and furnishings as of 2019 much of the building is still surprisingly unspoiled although some of the graffiti which adorns the walls of the hotel's lower floors is downright creepy [Music] classical literature has never seen like a likely source of inspiration for an amusement park but we have to salute the French for trying Marat palace theme park was supposed to be a celebration of great French literature presented in a way that would appeal to adults and children and also increase the public's level of enthusiasm for French arts it was a grand ambitious plan and it didn't quite work out when an for COD came up with the idea the plan for Marat palace in the early 1980s she saw it as kind of a literature Disneyland her idea was backed by wealthy investors and when the park opened in 1987 French Prime Minister Jacques Chirac turned up to cut the ribbon and allow the public in to sample the 29 rides 12 restaurants and grand theatre there was space inside for 28,000 people although that capacity was never tested many of the attractions could only stay open when the weather was fair and for the first year of operations it rained almost constantly the park never recovered from its disastrous opening and was closed in mid 1991 much of it has now been destroyed but some features including a creepy giant head are still visible at the site if you see the remains of the Atlas hovercraft in a field in Florida you might suspect that it was somehow dumped there by a mighty storm it wasn't it's just the last remaining relic of a failed business plan and a company that disappeared overnight the hovercraft was supposed to be the flagship of a whole fleet of hovercraft that would become the next big thing in luxury transport for the people of the st. Johns River area who were expected to turn in by the thousands to take a trip on it we'll never know if it would have worked as an idea or not despite millions of dollars of investment being poured into the project it never got any further than the 165 footlong shell you see in the field work both started and stopped in 2005 and other than a brief message in 2008 - say the project was still going ahead the company behind Atlas was never heard from again subscribe to the channel and turn on notifications and you will be the first to know when a new video comes out thank you for watching and see you in the next video

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Published: Thu Dec 12 2019