Abandoned Travel
AFAR Ambassadors are in-the-know bloggers who have a passion for experiential travel.
Some of the best things to see aren't beautiful - they are down right disturbing. I love finding abandoned sites when I travel!
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Visit a Whale of a Ghost Town
All that remains of the whaling station at Whalers Bay in Deception Island are some rusted out buildings, and whale skeletons. It’s strange to walk around the buildings and imagine what the area was like in it’s height of operation. Big boiling...
Bombed Beirut
I took a walk through downtown Beirut photographing the bombed buildings which still exist in the Beirut skyline. I was in shock of the hundreds of bullet holes scarring the buildings and that’s when I saw him; a security guard of some type...
Graveyard of Fun
Even fun has a shelf life – this is what runs through my mind as I walk around Spreepark, the abandoned, dilapidated amusement park in Berlin.
When East Germany and the GDR fell, so did many of the businesses that were operating under the rules of...
Detroit Art
Detroit is a truly incredible city, and a place I highly recommend everyone visit. You'll find great food, beautiful architecture, wonderful people and vibrant art scene that can surprise you in unlikely places. We stumbled across this inverted...
Bolivian Bus
Contact Guinness Book of World Records. This must be the shortest vacation to Bolivia on record.
As near as I can tell with my less-than-fluent Spanish skills, I was turned back after 30 minutes at the Bolivian border because:
- it was snowing and...
Moshi Train Station
Captured in the abandoned train station in Moshi, Tanzania. A weathered wooden box which once collected anonymous input, now swings uselessly from a rusty anchor. A small, thought-provoking relic of a bygone colonial era. When I saw it, I imagined...
Christiania, Copenhagen, Denmark
In 1971, squatters moved into the barracks on an abandoned military base and established Freetown Christiania, an autonomous district in the middle of the city. Later, many dwellers built their own homes on the 86-acre property. Although the...
Abandoned US spy station West Berlin
If you can find a way past the guard and barbed wire fence you can get into this amazing old spy station in west Berlin. The views are fantastic.
Jungle Gym
Everyone I met in Jordan was engaging, interesting and polite, including the children. If you find yourself in an old bedouin town, make sure to engage with the kids, who often speak english better than adults. Here they're playing with an...
