Robotindisguise:

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kari-shma:

© Joseph Holmes | Photographed looking down on West 43 St. in New York.

fuckyeahghosttowns:

Bokor Hill Station, Cambodia (via)

Bokor Hill Station is an abandoned French town in Preah Monivong National Park, located in northern Cambodia.

The town was built in 1921 as a resort by the colonial French settlers to offer an escape from the heat, humidity and general insalubrity of Phnom Penh. Nine hundred lives were lost in nine months during the construction of the resort in this remote mountain location. The centrepiece of the resort was the grand Bokor Palace Hotel & Casino, complemented by shops, a post office, a church and the Royal Apartments. It is also an important cultural site, showing how the colonial settlers spent their free time.

Bokor Hill was abandoned first by the French in late 1940s, during the First Indochina War, because of local insurrections guided by the Khmer Issarak, and then for good in 1972, as Khmer Rouge took over the area. During the Vietnamese invasion in 1979, Khmer Rouge entrenched themselves and held on tightly for months. In earlier 1990s Bokor Hill was still one of the last strongholds of Khmer Rouge.

Now abandoned, most of the buildings are still standing. The site is owned by the government but is under 99–year lease to the Sokimex Group who are undertaking to relay the road and redevelop the site, repairing the old hotel and casino along with new buildings.

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(via rackhamfairy)

dmosh:

Yes, please.. Daft Punk #alloveragain

Nether me

explodingdog:

I don’t

elspethjane:

Squirrels, lots of squirrels.

(thanks Yatta!)

internetology:

Cells

Namaste

fuckyeahghosttowns:

Ohio State Reformatory in Mansfield, Ohio

The Ohio State Reformatory is a prison built between 1886 and 1910 and remained in full operation until 1972 once the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility was opened. The facility was completely closed down in 1990. Part of the grounds and support buildings however, including the outer wall have been demolished since the closing. In 1995, the “Mansfield Reformatory Preservation Society” was formed. They have turned the prison into a museum and conduct tours to help fund grounds rehabilitation projects and currently work to stabilize the buildings against further deterioration. The facility still holds the largest free standing cell block in the world at six tiers high.

The prison gained fame when it served as Shawshank State Prison in the 1994 movie The Shawshank Redemption starring Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman. It was also featured in many other productions, even before its closing.

Submitted by and photograph taken by Bob from Rejected Memories