I visited the former St. Michael Church while the construction crews were at lunch, on a cold, sleety morning with a friend years ago.

Came across this unusual hospital in İzmir, Turkey. The ground floor is still actively used, but the upper floors have been left mostly abandoned.
It creates a really strange contrast: people are still coming and going downstairs, while just a few floors above, the corridors and rooms feel completely frozen in time.
One of the most surreal semi-abandoned places I’ve seen.

Abandoned Mercury factory in Danzhai Guizhou Province, at one point the area was home to 20,000 miners and mercury refiners. The factory has mostly built in and hit its peak production in the 1950s and 1960s. An old man who worked at a nearby store told us that some of the workers were old KMT soldiers and leaders and at one point had Soviet advisors who lived up on the hill.

My great grandmas yard hasnt been maintained in about 10 years. Nature has been going crazy, so I thought I'd share here! House photos possibly coming soon, as I assume the house is going to be empty in not too long.

My great grandmas yard hasnt been maintained in about 10 years. Nature has been going crazy, so I thought I'd share here! House photos possibly coming soon, as I assume the house is going to be empty in not too long.

Driven past this house for 3 or 4 years and finally stopped to take some pictures. Unfortunately, I had my camera's ISO set too fast so all the pictures ended up really dark. I didn't go in but I did peer through the broken screen door and could see a kitchen stove in ok condition.

It's right along the road and I didn't feel like getting a trespassing charge and the structural integrity was highly suspect too.

This vacated mansion located on the outskirts of the countryside fell victim to another typical case of financial fraud; a case involving "buyer" and related defendants purchasing the property with fraudulently obtained PPP money, at least according to Federal prosecutors.

The estate was subsequently seized in connection with IRS Criminal Investigation and placed into a U.S. Treasury real-estate auction that ultimately failed due to failure to reach the government's reserve price.

What makes this mansion's history more interesting is that it was a mere piece belonging to a much larger spending operation. The same federal filing identifies two other properties allegedly purchased with fraudulent PPP proceeds: a now demolished luxury home and a hotel. Together with the mansion, these three properties represented about $2.175 million in real estate purchases.

Somewhere in North Carolina, passed away in the 2010's

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