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17 Beautiful Abandoned Structures Reclaimed by Nature

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Did you ever try to imagine what would happen if humans suddenly disappeared from the face of the earth? What would happen to everything we built? Well, the photos below give us a clue. All these impressive buildings once stood tall and were visited by thousands of people. Today, they are abandoned and reclaimed by nature. The results are rather haunting, but also quite uniquely beautiful and even fascinating.

1. A castle in Scotland

2. An deserted JC Penny mall in Ohio covered in snow

3. A pre-WW2 Soviet light tank is now slowly rusting away on Shumshu, Russia

4. An old archive in Italy

5. A long-abandoned Hindu temple in the Kashmir mountains, India

6. This forgotten hearse chariot is hidden inside a morose barn

7. A forsaken 18th-century Portuguese monastery enclosed by green wilderness

8. An abandoned shopping mall in Bangkok, Thailand, was flooded with rainwater and is now home to thousands of fish!

9. Camels sitting in the shade of a stranded boat on the dried-up Aral Sea

10. The flooded and frozen basement of a large home in Toronto, Canada

11. An abandoned Renaissance Fair in Virginia, USA

12. A neglected farmhouse that looks like a castle in Italy

13. The glamour of this long-abandoned hotel in Europe still shines through

14. Abandoned historical palace in Hungary

15. This 400-year-old estate in Italy was once the home of Napoleon Bonaparte's youngest sister

16. A lone bell tower in Italy

17. An abandoned beach villa

Source of images: Acid Cow

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