AT LEAST WE TRIED

A blog of abandoned places in the United States and beyond.

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At Least We Tried EP 1: Six Flags Autoworld

Autoworld is an integral part of Flint's history. A story of gross government mismanagement, and ill founded optimism. I lived in Flint, and I wanted to tell...

A while back, I announced that I was working on a way to bring this blog back.  I’m here to announce, that time is finally here.  I know I’ve missed the boat when it comes to talking about theme parks online, but all of you that have been here for a while know that it’s something I'm incredibly passionate about.  

This is a video I’ve put together, and it’s one that’s very personal to me.  If you like it, please let me know what you’d like to see next.  And like, comment, subscribe!

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Hello everyone! I feel like abandoned places are more popular than ever.  I sometimes wonder if anyone still stumbles on my blog while doing research?  Maybe I’m planning a comeback.  If anyone is still around to see, please send encouraging thoughts!  I’m working on a major project about my home city that hopefully you will enjoy.    

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So now it's the "abandoned blog"

You don't know me.  You don't know my story.

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I miss seeing posts from this blog! Hope you guys get up and running again soon.

I'm sorry I haven't been posting very much lately, but thanks so much for the message.  I've been so busy with college this semester, so I don't know when things'll start up again, but I'll try to make sure to post something whenever ever I can ;A;  

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Aldwych, an abandoned Tube station in central London

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Hello!  I went to see "The Wolverine" this weekend, and while I wouldn't recommend it (at all), it did feature a famous haikyo (abandoned place) in Japan:  The Nakagin Capsule Towers.  

While, in the movie, it serves as the facade of a Love Hotel, in reality, the Nakagin Capsule Tower is a mostly abandoned structure built in the 70's.  Each apartment is a separate unit added to the main structure (kind of like legos).  It's impervious to Earthquakes, and has withstood many other disasters, however it's falling into disrepair, and its fate is unknown at this time. 

(Photograph by Michael john grist)

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Tickets to the now defunct Discovery Island.

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Abandoned (Haunted) Hotel in Colombia

The Hotel del Salto is located near Tequendama Falls on the Bogotá River in Colombia. It was opened in 1924 and shut its doors in the 1990′s. The hotel’s Gothic design is perfectly enhanced by a river and waterfall. Some say the hotel is haunted and no one wanted to stay there. Others state that the adjoining river was extremely polluted and they had to close. For whatever reason, the hotel stands as a beautifully macabre landmark for lovers of classic architecture, urban exploration, and maybe a few ghosts.

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The House on the Borderland

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Someone was asking bout California,.  Here you go~

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You can view the entire Island of Hashima on Google street view

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this is amazing. you can go inside the buildings.

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oh hay its  “mitsubishi island"  :D

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go explore gunkanjima!

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"Takakanonuma Greenland" (by CreepPasta)

Someone mentioned that the spree park ferris wheel reminded them of Takakanonuma Greenland, so I found this creepy pasta.  It falls into fiction about halfway through (I've never heard anything about that picture of the little girl at the gate), but the park honestly doesn't need any embellishment to be scary.

What's spookier than a theme park that closed in 1999 having no existence on video or film?  It's easy to find clips of Nara Dreamland's glory days, but, for some reason, this one slipped beneath the radar. 

Also, if the park is still standing, it's in the fallout zone from Japan's recent nuclear disaster. 

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The Abandoned Ferris Wheel Spins Anyway

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The thing that weirds me out most is that the squeaking really sounds like kids screaming on rides, like roller coasters.

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GET THE SALT

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This is the famous Spree Park ferris wheel!  Last I heard, efforts were being made to restore it, but it's too impatient to wait that long. 

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I'm getting amped up for my first-ever urban exploration. I'm excited but nervous, hoping to hell I don't get hurt or arrested. But I just discovered this blog. And I love it. <3 Which brings me to this: FLORIDA. You have ONE post set in Florida. Florida has a ton of abandoned places in Disney, North Florida and down U.S. 192. Check 'em out! :D

Awesome!   If you send me the pictures, I'll totally put them up on the blog.  :)   Just make sure to take a buddy if you can, as well as a flashlight, and a cellphone, and be careful!  I wish you the best of luck.  

  As for Florida, I've written about a couple of Florida locations (though I know I haven't even come close to hitting a lot of them), like Africa U.S.A, River Country, the abandoned Disney hotel, Xanadu, house of the future, and Splendid China (my tagging is a bit dodgy, I apologize). 

But yes!  Florida does have a lot of really great abandoned places, especially with all the tourism in the area.  I'll definitely have to look into it further. 

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This is just a reminder that, when exploring abandoned places, you should try your best to leave them as they are.  Don't break windows, or cause damage.  That ruins the place for other people. 

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i just got back from detroit, where i was playing at the movement festival (which was as festivals go, i say with some objectivity, amazing).

i’ve been going to detroit since the late 80’s (as it is the birthplace of modern electronic music), and i’ve always loved it.

culturally and musically and artistically it’s a fascinating place, but it’s also fascinating in that it has more remarkable abandoned buildings than any other city in the western world (this might sound like hyperbole, but i’m guessing it’s actually true).

it’s worth stating that there are big parts of detroit that are not filled with abandoned buildings. and those are nice, too… but the parts of downtown detroit that are filled with beautiful old abandoned buildings are aesthetically amazing (as evidenced by the fact that lots and lots of people have taken pictures of them).

on saturday i had the afternoon off, so my friend shannon (who lives in a former abandoned building) took me on a bike ride around detroit to look at her favorite abandoned buildings (what she refers to as ‘ruin porn’). here are some of my favorites.

and i hope that these buildings at some point get the love and care that they deserve. but in the meantime: ruin porn.

thanks,

moby

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Abandoned Amusement Park in New Orleans

I keep seeing this post, and I thought I'd come out of retirement to settle record straight. These aren't all pictures of Six Flags New Orleans. These pictures are also from parks in Ohio, Japan, Ukraine, Spain, and Germany. :)

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kisho kurokawa, nagakin ‘capsule’ tower; capsule residence interior view

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Oh  man, a picture of the interior of the capsule tower before it fell into disrepair.  what a view. 

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Mike Tyson’s Abandoned 1980s Mansion in Southington, Ohio