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Image Galleries - Ghosts, Paranormal, Society 11
Places and Hauntings - Ghosts, Paranormal, Society 83
 Bill Hocker PhotographsBill Hocker Photographs
 Collection of industrial photographs.
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Cathedrals of DecayCathedrals of Decay
 Galleries and thoughts from the photographer.
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Decayed MachineryDecayed Machinery
 Photographs and drawings of derelict machinery.
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Dylan Trigg: The Poetics of DecayDylan Trigg: The Poetics of Decay
 Resource for essays on decay, urban exploration and the aesthetics of urban ruins.
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Flickr: Old, Rusty & CorrodedFlickr: Old, Rusty & Corroded
 Photographs of old, broken, rusty things. Group began for vehicles but has grown to include anything.
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Flickr: Abandon: The Secret Lives of Deserted BuildingsFlickr: Abandon: The Secret Lives of Deserted Buildings
 Photos which show the building acquiring a new character. Shots that are just straight documentary records of simple unoccupied spaces are not appropriate for this group.
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Flickr: Abandonded Gas StationsFlickr: Abandonded Gas Stations
 Rusty old gas pumps and abandoned gas stations.
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Flickr: AbandonedFlickr: Abandoned
 Places and things which have been abandoned.
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Flickr: Abandoned Building ArtFlickr: Abandoned Building Art
 Photos and art found in and around abandoned buildings and houses.
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Flickr: Abandoned CottagesFlickr: Abandoned Cottages
 Pictures of abandoned and lost cottages in the city, villages or countryside.
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Flickr: Abandoned FarmsFlickr: Abandoned Farms
 Photos of abandoned farms, ruins and other rural buildings decaying.
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Flickr: Abandoned FurnitureFlickr: Abandoned Furniture
 Take photos of furniture you've come across on the street and submit them here.
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Flickr: Abandoned, Neglected, Weathered, or RustyFlickr: Abandoned, Neglected, Weathered, or Rusty
 Anything old, neglected, abandoned, falling apart, or rusting.
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Flickr: Abandoned Places and ThingsFlickr: Abandoned Places and Things
 Sharing photos which show the interesting aspects of abandoned places, buildings and things.
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Flickr: Abandoned RoomsFlickr: Abandoned Rooms
 Empty (or nearly) rooms in abandoned houses.
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Flickr: Abandoned to TimeFlickr: Abandoned to Time
 Pictures of anything abandoned, mainly buildings. Rough, ransacked, dirty, torn-down, and messy.
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Flickr: All Things RustyFlickr: All Things Rusty
 Rusted objects and places. Anything derelict, with a good coat of rust.
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Flickr: Antiquity AbatingFlickr: Antiquity Abating
 Snap a picture of an old building, house, farm or other structure, tag it with the location, and post it to this group. We may not be able to rebuild them, but we can remember them.
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Flickr: Any Derelict BuildingFlickr: Any Derelict Building
 Any kind of buildings (outside/ inside): abandoned, derelict, uninhabited, empty, unoccupied, tumbledown, broken-down, ramshackle, run-down, ruined.
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Flickr: aPeeling PaintFlickr: aPeeling Paint
 For images of peeling, weathered paint.
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Flickr: Architecture of OldFlickr: Architecture of Old
 A particular style or fashion of a building, especially one that is typical of a period of history or of a particular place.
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Flickr: Art of UrbexFlickr: Art of Urbex
 This group is more specifically aimed at urban exploration photography as an art form using light and or available elements in an artistic fashion.
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Flickr: Asylums for the InsaneFlickr: Asylums for the Insane
 An exploration of mental hospitals, asylums and housing for the insane.
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Flickr: Barns, Sheds and other Rustic Rural BuildingsFlickr: Barns, Sheds and other Rustic Rural Buildings
 Barns, sheds, smoke houses, dilapadated farm houses and other rustic and rural buildings.
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Flickr: Battered BeautyFlickr: Battered Beauty
 Beautiful things that are tattered, cracked, rusted, bruised, broken, burned, or busted in any way.
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Flickr: Beautiful DecayFlickr: Beautiful Decay
 This group is intended to contain images that show decay in an aesthetic way.
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Flickr: Beauty of DecayFlickr: Beauty of Decay
 Beauty in decaying buildings and their accessories.
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Flickr: Beyond RepairFlickr: Beyond Repair
 Anything so far beyond decay you know it isn't coming back.
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Flickr: Bridges and TunnelsFlickr: Bridges and Tunnels
 This is a public group for pictures of bridges or tunnels.
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Flickr: Chairs at AbandonmentsFlickr: Chairs at Abandonments
 It's an eerie phenomenon, but there always seem to be an odd chair or something of that genre in abandonments. Only post chairs, sofas, benches and the such found in abandoned, desolate locations.
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Flickr: Church RuinsFlickr: Church Ruins
 The group for church and chapel ruins. This can include ruined abbeys, priories, monasteries and friaries.
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Flickr: Closed for BusinessFlickr: Closed for Business
 Shops, stores, restaurants, cafes, retail and public buildings, that have ceased business and are falling into a state of decay and rot.
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Flickr: CondemnedFlickr: Condemned
 Photos of houses, factories, buildings that are about to be burned or torn down.
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Flickr: Construction and DeconstructionFlickr: Construction and Deconstruction
 Demolition of old buildings and construction of new places.
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Flickr: DamageFlickr: Damage
 Pictures of damanged items and places.
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Flickr: Dams & SpillwaysFlickr: Dams & Spillways
 Collecting photographs of dams, spillways, and anything attached to them.
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Flickr: Dead Malls & Vacant RetailFlickr: Dead Malls & Vacant Retail
 Pictures of abandoned retail facilities, inside and out.
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Flickr: Dead SignsFlickr: Dead Signs
 Collection of abandoned and/ or derelict signs.
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Flickr: Death of the Service StationFlickr: Death of the Service Station
 Add your images to document the death of the service station, or to inject some optimism, add some hope with images demonstrating the restoration/ revival of it.
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Flickr: DecayingFlickr: Decaying
 Anything decaying: urban, rural, industrial, or natural. Photos from around the world.
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Flickr: Decaying Urban ArtscapesFlickr: Decaying Urban Artscapes
 A collection of decaying urban wall textures, spontaneous guerilla art, fragments of politkal dissent and abstruse messages.
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Flickr: Demolished Demolition GoneFlickr: Demolished Demolition Gone
 Photos of buildings or significant structures, now demolished or removed since originally photographed.
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Flickr: Derelict LightFlickr: Derelict Light
 Photos of light at the scene of an abandoned building or place.
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Flickr: DerelictionFlickr: Dereliction
 A group to share photos of all things old, rusty and derelict.
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Flickr: DesecratedFlickr: Desecrated
 A group to illustrate and protest the desecration/ vandalism of cemeteries.
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Flickr: Desperate HouseLivesFlickr: Desperate HouseLives
 Photos of homes, houses and residences in all kinds of disrepair.
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Flickr: Dilapidated BuildingsFlickr: Dilapidated Buildings
 Post your photos of dilapidated buildings (residential or commercial).
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Flickr: Dilapidated HousesFlickr: Dilapidated Houses
 Old houses showing decay or breaking down.
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Flickr: Disused RailwaysFlickr: Disused Railways
 Disused railways, tracks, platforms, empty stations, viaducts, bridges, tunnels. But no trains.
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Flickr: DoorsFlickr: Doors
 Photos of doors, mostly old, in rough shape or otherwise notable.
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Flickr: Doors and Windows in DecayFlickr: Doors and Windows in Decay
 Could be new or old, urban or rural, but must be clearly decaying and not stuff that could be resolved with a wet cloth and some detergent.
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Flickr: Downtrodden DocksFlickr: Downtrodden Docks
 This site is dedicated to images of abandoned docks and piers.
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Flickr: Enter the MachineFlickr: Enter the Machine
 Images that go beyond simple industrial photography. Capturing the color of rust, the feeling of an abondoned factory, the patterns in flaking paint, a vanishing point in a mill.
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Flickr: EntropyFlickr: Entropy
 About the pleasure to be found in decay, the inevitable passage of the pretentious and the grandiose.
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Flickr: Exploring AbandonmentsFlickr: Exploring Abandonments
 For those who explore inside abandoned and semi-abandoned buildings. Just taking pictures from outside isn't enough.
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Flickr: Eyðibýli - Abandoned HousesFlickr: Eyðibýli - Abandoned Houses
 Photos of abandoned houses, buildings and ruins.
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Flickr: FactoriesFlickr: Factories
 All kinds of factories: derelict or full of life, new or old, large or small.
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Flickr: FactoryFlickr: Factory
 New, old and defunct factories in photos.
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Flickr: Faded SignageFlickr: Faded Signage
 Signs past. Having lost their message, separated from the thing that they once advertised, or even those still trucking along, not yet replaced.
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Flickr: Fixer-UppersFlickr: Fixer-Uppers
 Sharing photos of old, condemned homes and buildings.
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Flickr: ForbiddenFlickr: Forbidden
 A group for photographers who have found themselves being forbidden to take photos of some thing or place.
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Flickr: ForgottenFlickr: Forgotten
 Things forgotten, if only for a minute, or an endless period of time.
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Flickr: Forgotten ThingsFlickr: Forgotten Things
 Not just abandoned, this group is for things that seem to simply have been forgotten: old cemeteries, rusty cars, swingsets. Non-living things only. These are the things you know will still be there, unattended, if you drive by 10 years from now.
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Flickr: Former TheatersFlickr: Former Theaters
 Photos of theaters that are either no longer in use (abandoned, condemned) or have been transformed into something else but still structurally resemble theaters.
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Flickr: Forsaken By SocietyFlickr: Forsaken By Society
 People, places or things which have been abandoned, forgotten or ignored.
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Flickr: Ghost SignsFlickr: Ghost Signs
 Gallery of old, painted commercial signs faded with age.
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Flickr: Ghost TownsFlickr: Ghost Towns
 Lost places, once inhabited towns and forgotten futures of the American Old West.
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Flickr: GhostRailsFlickr: GhostRails
 Photos of railroads, railroad equipment, locomotives which are no longer being used.
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Flickr: Ghosts From The MachineFlickr: Ghosts From The Machine
 In post-industrial environments, there are many reminders, echoes, hints or ghosts of our industrial past.
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Flickr: HDR DecayFlickr: HDR Decay
 This is a group exclusively for HDR photographs featuring decay.
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Flickr: Historical PlacesFlickr: Historical Places
 Group to post photos of favourite historical places.
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Flickr: Houses and HomesFlickr: Houses and Homes
 Pictures (from as many parts of the world as possible) of exteriors of interesting houses/ homes.
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Flickr: If These Walls Could Talk...Flickr: If These Walls Could Talk...
 Photos of old buildings, structures that look like they have a story behind them. Please add details such as location and the kind of structure it is.
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Flickr: Industrial AbandonmentFlickr: Industrial Abandonment
 Abandoned industrial buildings.
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Flickr: Industrial ArchaeologyFlickr: Industrial Archaeology
 All about abandoned factories, of every type, from every part of the world.
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Flickr: Industrial DecayFlickr: Industrial Decay
 Abandoned industry, decaying machinery and vehicles, derelict industrial buildings and other facilities. The older the building, machine or structure, the better. Abandoned locations preferred but not required.
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Flickr: Industrial Night ShotsFlickr: Industrial Night Shots
 Industry landscapes at night.
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Flickr: IndustryFlickr: Industry
 Urban exploration, industrial archeology and modern industry photography.
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Flickr: InfiltrationFlickr: Infiltration
 Pictures of places you're not supposed to go.
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Flickr: JunkFlickr: Junk
 Pictures of scrap metal, junkyards, rubbish dumps, anyplace where stuff goes to die. Dead metal.
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Flickr: Junk BeautiesFlickr: Junk Beauties
 Photos of scrap, jetsom and flotsom, whatever you call piles of junk that can be recycled back into art.
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Flickr: League of the Empty ChairFlickr: League of the Empty Chair
 The key is the emptiness, uncanny lack of belonging that the chair represents.
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Flickr: Leaning HousesFlickr: Leaning Houses
 Houses and other buildings that have one thing in common, they lean.
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Flickr: Lonely HousesFlickr: Lonely Houses
 Photos of houses in empty spaces, as a lonely strong sign in landscape. Most are abandoned homes.
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Flickr: MachinescapesFlickr: Machinescapes
 Artistic photographs of machines, metals, gears, engines, pulleys, industrial equipment, axles, miscellaneous mechanisms, grease, grime, grit, junk. The inner-workings of anything. Abstract or linear, anything goes.
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Flickr: Macro DecayFlickr: Macro Decay
 Photos of urban decay, does not include things that can be restored.
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Flickr: Military DecayFlickr: Military Decay
 Abandoned, rotting or dismantled military objects and facilities.
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Flickr: Mouldy Old StonesFlickr: Mouldy Old Stones
 Photographs of standing stones, historical monuments (such as castles), and the landscape they exist within.
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Flickr: Museum of DustFlickr: Museum of Dust
 Dust storms and clouds, dust bunnies, drifts of dust and tornadoes for example.
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Flickr: No TrespassingFlickr: No Trespassing
 A group for those taking pictures in places that have Do Not Enter or No Trespassing signs.
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Flickr: Not in UseFlickr: Not in Use
 Things which are preferably old, not used anymore or used for a totally different purpose.
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Flickr: Octagon Houses (and Other Curious Buildings)Flickr: Octagon Houses (and Other Curious Buildings)
 Group to share and discuss photos of round shaped houses. Some are derelict but it's not necessary.
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Flickr: Old & AbandonnedFlickr: Old & Abandonned
 Old and abandonded buildings, industrial places, burned out places. Some may be creepy looking but anything which has been pretty much forgotten and left to decay.
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Flickr: Old & ForgottenFlickr: Old & Forgotten
 Buildings and other things that are old, weathered and forgotten.
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Flickr: Old And BeautifulFlickr: Old And Beautiful
 A group for old buildings, barns, shacks, abandoned homes, and any other old falling down structures.
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Flickr: Old Buildings and MoreFlickr: Old Buildings and More
 Old buildings, houses, streets, markets, national monuments, bridges or even a building in ruins.
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Flickr: Old Buildings Bridges LandmarksFlickr: Old Buildings Bridges Landmarks
 Old buildings bridges or landmarks. Share the histoy in pictures of any historic place you may have been.
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Flickr: Old ChurchesFlickr: Old Churches
 Group to share photos of old churches.
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Flickr: Old HousesFlickr: Old Houses
 Pictures of old houses 90, 100 years old or older.
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Flickr: Old StonesFlickr: Old Stones
 By stone we mean rock shaped by humans. By old we mean at least 100 years, but something like 1000 years would be more appropriate.
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Flickr: Old Structures.Flickr: Old Structures.
 Structures of all kinds. Mostly abandoned or still in limited use.
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Flickr: Old Windows and FramesFlickr: Old Windows and Frames
 This is a group for pictures of old windows and window frames.
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Flickr: Out to PastureFlickr: Out to Pasture
 Old cars, farm equipment, machinery, that has been put out to pasture.
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Flickr: OvergrownFlickr: Overgrown
 This is a group for pictures where any object or item is being taken over by nature. Overgrown, plants, vines, weeds, obscuring some object.
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Flickr: Palaces, Castles, Towers, Pagodas, Fortresses And Ruins of OldFlickr: Palaces, Castles, Towers, Pagodas, Fortresses And Ruins of Old
 Pictures of pre-Medieval, Medieval and post-Medieval towers, lighthouses, castles, fortresses, and especially remnants thereof.
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Flickr: Peeled and Patched WallsFlickr: Peeled and Patched Walls
 Group to share photos of peeling and patched walls.
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Flickr: Photographing ProhibitedFlickr: Photographing Prohibited
 Photos taken in prohibited locations. Infiltrating industrial plants, military installations, concerts, train and metro stations.
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Flickr: Reclaimed By NatureFlickr: Reclaimed By Nature
 Shots of man made things that nature has decided to take for its own.
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Flickr: Restricted AccessFlickr: Restricted Access
 Urban exploration: buildings and sites with posted signs telling you not to go there. (No Trespassing, Restricted Access.)
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Flickr: RuinsFlickr: Ruins
 Photos of building and structures ruined by the passage of time.
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Flickr: Rural DarknessFlickr: Rural Darkness
 The only major criteria for posting images to this group is a rural setting (or at least evoking a rural mood or feeling of isolation) plus a dark aura (or sense of dread). Think rural decay but with a more Gothic or eerie sensibility.
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Flickr: Rural DecayFlickr: Rural Decay
 Pictures of barns, silos, farms and other rural buildings decaying. Objects now part of the landscape are also welcome, such as tractors, or old farm equipment.
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Flickr: Rural DeteriorationFlickr: Rural Deterioration
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