Abandonia
Some of you will know that I have a certain fascination with abandoned things. Particularly buildings and shipwrecks but pretty much anything that humans used to use/wander around in/work in regularly - places and things that were so familiar and taken-for-granted that they feel a little magical and a little obscene when viewed in their abandoned
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Yes! I love abandoned things and the like as well! The place Soph's talking about is called Gunkanjima, which you may or may not already have heard of.
If not:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashima_Island
http://home.f01.itscom.net/spiral/hashima/hashima001.html
http://surfacebelow.com/gunkanjima.htm
Until this year it wasn't possible (legally) to land on the island. Unfortunately as of April you can go on boat tours to a landing point. I wanted to go see it when I was in Japan, but it was going to require too much time and effort, so I'm a little disappointed that it's so readily accessible now. Still, the photos are pretty amazing.
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