Destroyed and Abandoned

Former Bethlehem Steel site

The condemned live longer.

Correctional institution for criminal children, Germany, 2019.

The Green Lantern - an abandoned legal brothel in rural Nevada…

I'm back.

Colorful waterfront cabins and shacks sit abandoned along a rural beach on the island of Aruba.

General Hospital Part II

Don’t forget there is also a video walkthrough, linked here!!

https://youtu.be/JtONs22Nqs4

For our final post, we will be looking at the emergency department as well as some other areas!!

This now abandoned hospital closed its doors permanently in early 2011 and has been sitting vacant and slowly deteriorating ever since.  The hospital was founded in 1898 and had numerous additions added throughout the years as the city around it grew in size.  In 1963 the hospital was pretty much completely rebuilt and this is evidenced by its current architectural style. In 2011 it was replaced by a more modern facility which at the time would have been state of the art and cost almost half a billion dollars.

This building along with two others nearby were bought in 2013 for $65,000.  The company converted one of the buildings into condominiums and later sold the other two in 2019.  The building’s current owner plans to turn the large former hospital into a long-term care facility but so far, as of this writing, nothing has happened at the site.

An incredible explore this building was absolutely huge with multiple floors and wings with 11 years worth of decay.  Inside, the hospital looks like a war zone in parts and has been ravaged by time, with water intruding and causing mosses to grow, walls collapsing and even the wall surrounding one of the elevator shafts had collapsed!  Although mostly emptied of its contents, the hospital did still have a chapel, a physical therapy pool as well as various large x-ray machines.  With a regular stream of visitors, whether it be kids, scrappers, homeless or even urban explorers, the local police have had their hands full! Earlier this year a group of three teenagers were inside exploring the building at night and lost their way, they ended up having to call the police to rescue them.

Abandoned Punalu’u Village on Hawaii’s Big Island - 

Opened in the 1970s and suffered a major setback just three years later when a tsunami sent 25′ waves across the land it sits on. Today it deteriorates within stone throwing distance of one of the island’s premier black sand beaches.

abandoned homes in the Mojave Desert town of Newberry Springs where a migrating sand dune has buried parts of a neighborhood, forcing residents to leave…