More Gloriously Abandoned Places

Not very glorious but definitely abandoned:

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Ardley Cove, Antarctica

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Beelitz Military Hospital, Beelitz, Germany

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Holland Island, Maryland

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Homebush Bay, Sydney, Australia

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Hotel del Salto, San Antonio del Tequendama, Colombia

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Hotel Edén, Córdoba, Argentina

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Maunsell Sea Forts, Thames and Mersey estuaries, England

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New Bedford Orpheum, Massachusetts

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Valley of the Mills, Sorrento, Italy

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I often walk through a large cemetery on my way to town. During Easter I saw a group of people holding hands, standing in a circle and chanting behind a small chapel near the cemetery gates. The chanting went on and on. It was repetitive but really quite suggestive. I have passed that chapel time and time again, but I never explored what was on the other side. A couple of days ago I did. There was a naked brick wall and a freight container. Not exactly a gloriously abandoned place, but it struck me as a Ligottian moment in the vein of "The Malignant Matrix".
 
At some point I should post some photos I took of a condemned house I stumbled across on a strangely sparse downhill turn of road here during a brief dérive a few years back. Profoundly ominous little slice of Old Philadelphia amongst somewhat dreary modern surroundings, lightened only by a curious patch of daffodils and tulips amidst an otherwise unkempt and half-dead yard.
 
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