Ghost Towns

[radhak]

Some of these give me the creeps, but most are just sad. I found #3 (in Pennsylvania) very intriguing.

Top 10 Interesting Abandoned Places

Great photography all through.

[smorris]

I've heard of that coal fire town. Not sure I would want to walk through there for fear of falling into a pit of fire.

Some years ago my brother and I dove a lake behind a dam in NY I think it was. There was a town which had disappeared beneath the rising waters. At about 50' deep the cold had preserved everything and it was one of the creepiest things I have ever seen. Roads, poles with the wires and lights still on them, houses, stores a whole little town frozen in time from the late 60's.

[radhak]

Wow, that sounds incredible. I'd want to learn to dive just to take a look at that. Wonder if there are any pictures around of that.

[cabinetman]

Some pretty cool places and some creepy ones. I wonder if any are for sale.
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[pacwind3]

I had heard once about that coal mine fire, but I thought it was an urban legend. That is wierd.

[Uncle Hook]

Nifty. I would like to visit the nearby amusement park.

http://www.offroaders.com/Destinatio...els/index.html

[Ed62]

I don't remember hearing of that fire. If I'm not mistaken, they say it's still burning?

The one of Bodie California reminded me of a ghost town we visited in Colorado. Don't remember the name of it, but I have a pic or two of our visit there.

Ed

[LinuxRandal]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yisFP1z3tgA

This is one of the sites, originally posted by a gal who likes to ride her motorcycle at a high rate of speed, through the area.

http://www.kiddofspeed.com/chapter1.html

[dbhost]

Centralia Pennsylvania... Now I know where they got the idea for the underground / mine fires for that stupid movie Silent Hill...
Silent Hill Trailer

[Bigbit]

I have been to Bodie before. It is now a CA state park (http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=509). It is in the middle of nowhere. It was a gold rush town in its heyday. It is quite moving to just stand there and take in the whole town and try to picture how it had once been. My first impression was that I was standing in a movie set.

It is near Mammoth Lake and Mono Lake which are also worth seeing. Mono Lake is particularly interesting, with its water being both alkaline and high salt. It is a geologist's dream.

[fbrend123]

I have been to Bodie before. It is now a CA state park (http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=509). It is in the middle of nowhere. It was a gold rush town in its heyday. It is quite moving to just stand there and take in the whole town and try to picture how it had once been. My first impression was that I was standing in a movie set.

It is near Mammoth Lake and Mono Lake which are also worth seeing. Mono Lake is particularly interesting, with its water being both alkaline and high salt. It is a geologist's dream.

Here's a ghost town in Michigan that's been turned into a state park, too. Not creepy, but interesting.

http://absolutemichigan.com/destination/fayette/

BTW, if I remember correctly, there's a vein of coal in North or South Dakota that's been burning for the last 50 or so years, too.

[germdoc]

It is near Mammoth Lake and Mono Lake which are also worth seeing. Mono Lake is particularly interesting, with its water being both alkaline and high salt. It is a geologist's dream.

If I were a plastic surgeon I'd set up shop near Mammoth Lake, but for me Mono Lake sounds good for business...

I think they must have used one of those towns for the set of The Hills Have Eyes. Creepy.

[iceman61]

I wonder how come Chernobyl didn't make the list. But then again, you can't just go visit it without glowing afterwards.

[Hoover]

BTW, if I remember correctly, there's a vein of coal in North or South Dakota that's been burning for the last 50 or so years, too.

Yes it's in North Dakota near Amidon

http://nd.water.usgs.gov/lewisandcla...ning_coal.html

[Bruce Cohen]

This gets my vote.




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Bruce