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  • Sure, a few of them.

    One of the warehouses my employer owns is effectively abandoned- it's basically cold machine storage for shit that hasn't been used for 50 years. I had to go in there for a couple weeks as part of my job and it's sure weird, all these massive millwork machines towering over you in the shadows deathly quiet. Once in a while you unexpectedly scare off birds or rats or one time a homeless dude. After a week it was pretty normal though.

    A few miles outside of the town I live in there's an abandoned homestead. Only just found it this summer actually. It's still mostly standing but all the windows are blown out and most of someone's possessions are still inside. An antique truck is parked outside in various states of disassembly, there's a chicken coop, an outhouse, and a well. Now that one is incredibly somber. This place was someones hopes and dreams, they loved and lost and toiled endlessly in that house and over that plot of land for thousands of hours, only to be ripped away from it by some unknown event- maybe economics, maybe a sickness, maybe their own death. Now it only sits decaying, the floors subsiding into the dirt, the walls beginning to bow and break, all these bits of wood stuck together into something that meant the world to some pour soul long since gone from this earth. Nature and physics returns to claim humanity's folly, and all those hopes and dreams of that unknown person are forever lost to time, an ethereal thought lasting not even a picosecond in the cosmic scale of time.

    I spent a lot of time wandering around that old homestead. Probably wasn't safe to go inside but it was still pretty humbling to see how little everything matters in the end. Dust to dust and all.

  • I toured a home that had been vacant for years. The basement was a mess. Someone had been majorly into canning. Shelves had collapsed, shattering jars.

    Other than that, it was a lot like touring a house while house hunting. Dirtier and more missing steps, but that's it.

  • I was driving through the Sahara and there was a weathered building that looked like it had nearly been finished and then forgotten. It sort of felt like part of a pvp game. I slept overnight there so I didn't have to set up my tent.

    In China, I rode my bike through entire towns that were completely built up and abandoned, including a 40-story fully furnished apartment building with a ridiculous gym and water features. It was demolished a couple months after i explored it

    In Thailand I slept in this old temple that was totally overtaken with vines and brush. I was worried about snakes, but Buddha was like right there, so it was fine

    In Hawaii there was this pillbox halfway through a mountain ridge hike. It was pretty locally famous and dull.

    In Ireland, there were a bunch of abandoned houses on the road I walked down and when it rained too hard(every ten minutes or so, February in Ireland), I took refuge in them. They were missing walls and windows, but Ireland is so pretty they all felt like sacred sites instead of witch houses.

    Oh I did find an abandoned building once taken over by hobos or teens and then reabandoned I guess, but it had needles and bottles and graffiti and I got real creepy feelings that around every corner or in the next room I'd find someone hunched over, biting their own tongue off or something.

    I didn't though, so it was fine.

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