Ghost towns and abandoned places

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Something about this abandoned amusement park in Arkansas (Dogpatch, USA) gets to me...kind of like the tackiest variants of Americana mixed in a blender with the brain of Oswald Spengler. There's tons of clips about this on Youtube, so I guess I'm not the only one taken by it.

Wiki entry on the place, for all the tedious details about its bankruptcy, etc.

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Funny the junk you remember sometimes...Breaking into abandoned churches, factories, schools, etc., is this guy's hobby, and here's his site:

http://www.abandoned-places.com/

I think this is my favorite:

http://www.abandoned-places.com/interprochim01.htm

http://www.abandoned-places.com/interprochim02.htm

More pictures!! !

Scattered around the US Southwest are ruins built by the Anasazi people, who abandoned their villages around 700 years ago. No one really knows why they left, although of course there are all kinds of theories.

Many of the ruins are now National Monuments and fully protected. They're often in remote areas, but you can hike to them. They're beautiful and eerie at the same time. Many's the time I felt a strange presence in them, as if these people had left behind something of themselves, perhaps to guard over the homes they left behind.

I actually love visiting cemetaries; I enjoy seeing the dates and wondering who each of the people were.

For some reason I also like old churches. I guess it's the idea of an abandoned building that I like. I also like wandering through old houses. I just like to imagine who was there and see the old architecture