Abandonedography

10 Employees and 5 Customers at a bank in Oklahoma rode out the...

Tue, 21 May 2013 22:28:25 -0400

10 Employees and 5 Customers at a bank in Oklahoma rode out the tornado in this vault

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Tue, 21 May 2013 08:02:35 -0400

Project HARP (High Altitude Research Project) was a joint...

Mon, 20 May 2013 13:48:00 -0400

Project HARP (High Altitude Research Project) was a joint initiative between the United States and Canada to research the use of ballistics to deliver objects into the upper atmosphere and beyond.

In lay terms, the project was established to create a cartoonishly large gun to shoot things into space. The sole fruit of this partnership, a massive toppled gun barrel, still remains on the Barbados test site.

Designed by mad ballistic engineer Gerald Bull, the gun itself was originally built from a 50 caliber naval cannon, like what might be seen on a battleship, and was later doubled to 100 caliber, making the gun too big for effective military application, but seemingly perfect for satellite delivery. Not-designed for delivering human subjects, the cannon fired smaller projectiles in a sabot that would protect the payload during the firing and would fall away as the satellite rose. At its apex, the gun was able to fire an object a staggering 112 miles into the sky, setting the 1963 world record for gun-launched altitude at 93 KM.

As the project continued, installing similar guns in further locations, the Barbados gun was abandoned in the late 1960s and left to rust on its original launch site. Looking more like a painted sewer pipe than a Godzilla-size gun barrel, the original Project HARP space gun can still be reached along the Barbados coast.

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An old abandoned mansion near Galway, Ireland by elementalist

Mon, 20 May 2013 13:29:51 -0400

An old abandoned mansion near Galway, Ireland by elementalist

destroyed-and-abandoned: Abandoned sanatorium in Québec. ....

Mon, 20 May 2013 02:14:15 -0400

destroyed-and-abandoned:

Abandoned sanatorium in Québec. .
Source: Math1988 (reddit)

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Sun, 19 May 2013 08:27:06 -0400

social-blog: For more than 30 years, the former town of Potosi...

Sun, 19 May 2013 08:08:01 -0400

social-blog:

For more than 30 years, the former town of Potosi resided underwater after it was flooded.

7dan: abandoned ‘space ship’ resort house宇宙基地保養所 :...

Sat, 18 May 2013 18:54:52 -0400

7dan:

abandoned ‘space ship’ resort house

宇宙基地保養所 : 見晴らしのよい丘の上に残る某企業の廃保養所。逆円錐形の浴室部分は着陸した宇宙船のよう。

Nilgiri Mountains, 2000 - Jason Fulford

Sat, 18 May 2013 11:18:00 -0400

Nilgiri Mountains, 2000 - Jason Fulford

Slide room in an abandoned University in Belgium by trasyy

Fri, 17 May 2013 18:47:19 -0400

Slide room in an abandoned University in Belgium by trasyy

Kilchurn Castle, Scotland

Fri, 17 May 2013 14:51:02 -0400

Kilchurn Castle, Scotland

Derelict farm near Hebden Bridge by Tim Green

Fri, 17 May 2013 14:34:18 -0400

Derelict farm near Hebden Bridge by Tim Green

The Kinsol trestle in Vancouver island, Canada. It has been...

Fri, 17 May 2013 13:20:33 -0400

The Kinsol trestle in Vancouver island, Canada. It has been abandoned since 1979.

By Bryn Tassel

neuromaencer: Pripyat (Ukrainian: При́п’ять, Pryp’yat’;...

Fri, 17 May 2013 09:42:56 -0400

neuromaencer:

Pripyat (Ukrainian: При́п’ять, Pryp’yat’; Russian: При́пять, Pripyat’) is a ghost town in northern Ukraine, near the border with Belarus.

St Paul’s Church - Abandoned, boarded-up, and for sale by Tim...

Thu, 16 May 2013 20:56:00 -0400

St Paul’s Church - Abandoned, boarded-up, and for sale by Tim Green

Think Again by oysters mate

Thu, 16 May 2013 20:42:01 -0400

Think Again by oysters mate

I’m not quite sure what purpose a doorway serves here....

Thu, 16 May 2013 20:38:28 -0400

I’m not quite sure what purpose a doorway serves here. But walking through it lead me to the field in my following shot, Yellow Galicia. So it was a doorway to beauty

Ancoradoiro Remnant (by MecCanon)

Hi you shared some of my pics so just wanted to say thank you. Dan (odins raven)

Thu, 16 May 2013 09:59:05 -0400

Thank you for taking the pictures. Some of the best.

Sleep is the cousin of death (by odin’s_raven)

Wed, 15 May 2013 14:28:20 -0400

Sleep is the cousin of death (by odin’s_raven)

Nautilus (by odin’s_raven)

Wed, 15 May 2013 14:05:28 -0400

Nautilus (by odin’s_raven)