Centralia, PA should be on there except if you drive on PA 61 you won't even know it's there because it was torn down.

eddyatwork: Centralia, PA should be on there except if you drive on PA 61 you won't even know it's there because it was torn down.

This isn't that kind of list, though - similarly I was thinking parts of Fukushima prefecture should be on there if you want a truly modern ghost town (Chernobyl always is, and this is newer), but it's not "abandoned places that were actually in use first." It's "almost done, but then just abandoned."

The Cincinnati subway looks pretty creepy cool though.

Been there.

"Six terrifying modern-day - HEY MORONS, PUT YOUR SHIAT ALL ON ONE PAGE!!"

Me thinks subby should look up the definition of "town".

It's a Fake!

A Cracked link?

I already have a burning sensation when I pee, why would I torment myself further?

If it's six, it must be Cracked.

They have all left us naught but grief and pain. For promised joy.

Having completed a good chunk of Portal 2 recently, I'm getting a kick out of that abandoned SSC site in Texas.

Mad Canadian: A Cracked link?

I already have a burning sensation when I pee, why would I torment myself further?

To take your mind off of the burning sensation and any potential hybrid babies.

They left Detroit off?

cause it fits

I really think the SSC could be used for something.

Weaver95: I kinda want to go visit texas just to poke around in that giant super collider ruin.

You'd better hurry. Remember the Magnablend chemical plant that caught fire and burned to the ground last fall? They want to buy it for their new facility. Closing date is reportedly Jan. 15.

skinink: They left Detroit off?

That only counts if you don't consider gang members to be people.

itazurakko:

The Cincinnati subway looks pretty creepy cool though.

As the other Cincinnatian with internet (Shadow Blasko being the first), let me agree with him that it is, in fact, pretty cool. I ran a 3-episode in-1920'scostume Call of Cthulhu LARP in there several years ago (illegally, of course). The players were alternately terrified and loving it.

It's not worth attempting felony trespass charges to get back there, though.

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Been there.

But there's was a Concrete Jungle.

Some time ago some people I knew bought Jerome AZ for $1 an acre; they turned the ghost town into a tourist attraction, and made buckets of money.

Ten miles south of Corpus Christi there is a ghost town named Chapman Ranch; I would love to buy it. Ghost towns can be very profitable, for example when Hondo Crouch bought Lukenback for $38,000---so he could write his own liquor laws.

Buy your own town and write your own laws? Think about it, Farkers; think about it!

FightDirector: itazurakko:

The Cincinnati subway looks pretty creepy cool though.

As the other Cincinnatian with internet (Shadow Blasko being the first), let me agree with him that it is, in fact, pretty cool. I ran a 3-episode in-1920'scostume Call of Cthulhu LARP in there several years ago (illegally, of course). The players were alternately terrified and loving it.

It's not worth attempting felony trespass charges to get back there, though.

Felony trespass? Is Cinci storing the secret to their crappy chili down there?

Six terrifying modern-day ghost towns

Very accurate headline Subby, except that they are not terrifying. Oh, and they are not ghost towns. There are six though, so that's good.

olddinosaur:

Buy your own town and write your own laws? Think about it, Farkers; think about it!

itazurakko: eddyatwork: Centralia, PA should be on there except if you drive on PA 61 you won't even know it's there because it was torn down.

This isn't that kind of list, though - similarly I was thinking parts of Fukushima prefecture should be on there if you want a truly modern ghost town (Chernobyl always is, and this is newer), but it's not "abandoned places that were actually in use first." It's "almost done, but then just abandoned."

The Cincinnati subway looks pretty creepy cool though.

I never knew about Cincinnati...time to go look it up on Youtube.

Fukushima is still glowing more the Pryipat is no way Jose!

all the good names are gone: Surprised to not see Pripyat.

Its been done over done and reused to the point where people go oh Pripyat... Except for the special where the reporter went in and talked to some people that still lved there and ate some food they were growing. Link (new window)

They should make a movie about a spooky ghost town, they could set it somewhere surrounded in hills and strangely silent...like with rolling fog hiding everthing...I bet that'd be an awesome scary movie...

stuhayes2010: I really think the SSC could be used for something.

It was used for the original purpose, then it turned into a time machine in 2014 and caused an event that in a time paradox went back and deleted its original funding.

http://www.fastcoexist.com/1678498/an-empty-town-built-to-test-new-tec hnology

Countries around the world have taken to the idea of building renewable technology towns and villages--perhaps the best known is Masdar City, a zero-emissions cleantech hub. Pegasus Global Holdings, an international technology company, is taking a slightly different tack: building a 20 square mile "replica city" in the middle of New Mexico that will test cutting edge technologies, including intelligent traffic systems, smart grids, cyber security, and next-generation wireless networks.

Pegasus is, essentially, planning to build a city of the future that scientists can use as a playground for untested
ideas. But unlike every other city on the planet, no one will live in
Pegasus's city, even though it will be capable of supporting 350,000
people in its rural communities, suburban areas, and urban locales. That way, it's safer when the intelligent traffic systems go off the rails.

The $200 million project, which has been dubbed "The
Center," will be used by researchers from military installations,
federal labs, and universities. The Center will feature a mix of old and new technology so that researchers can, for example, see how a solar system performs in an old building versus a new one.

Looks about halfway complete.

So, if that mall in China is essentially a dead mall, does that mean West Edmonton Mall is back to being the largest indoor mall in the world?

skinink: They left Detroit off?

Came for this, leaving satisfied.

It's more like six failed projects than ghost towns. But what do I know.

olddinosaur:
Buy your own town and write your own laws? Think about it, Farkers; think about it!


If you are caught masturbating, don't stop!!!

The world's largest theme park is China's Wonderland

Where waiting in line IS the ride!

Detroit is a legitimate ghost town, as the city itself currently has a population of 16,000 living in an area which once held 1.8 million.

austin_millbarge: Looks about halfway complete.

Nice. :)

One of the reason the SSC ground to a halt was that it would have required many, many years (ten, iirc) of the world's today output of niobium to make the superconducting coils. Since this was at the same time as the vast expansion of use of SC magnets in MRI machines,completing the SSC would have required a material which simply was not going to be available. Tenfold increase in the price of niobium? Medical imaging would have absorbed it, but the SSC would have been screwed.

/was a SC researcher at the time
//we all knew it was doomed from the day they announced it
///just a matter of when they'd work it out.

They were going to build a world's biggest shopping mall in Las Vegas too. It's that big pile of rusting structural steel just south of the Red Rock casino. A phrase that seems to be frequently applied to this and other abandoned megaprojects is "when the money ran out in 2008".

Also, the Fontainebleau Las Vegas hotel.

http://www.vegastodayandtomorrow.com/fontainebleau.htm

Related.

schief2: Montreal's not the only town in North America with a massive ghost airport - behold, MidAmerica "St. Louis" Airport, conveniently located 30 miles away from St. Louis in the middle of nowhere in Illinois.

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It was originally going to be...a relief airport for all the massive TWA traffic at St. Louis's main airport! Oops.

Then it was going to be...a new Fedex hub to replace Memphis! Hmm...maybe not.

Last it was going to be...a low-cost alternative airport to Lambert! Except the airlines weren't biting.

But hey, at least it's not totally deserted:

As of January 2010, one air cargo company uses the airport to import flowers from Colombia, totalling one flight each week.

But the good news is, the TSA is still spending money to upgrade the passenger screening facilities for the nonexistent passenger traffic. So it's got that going for it. Which is nice.

One of my biggest clients is the airport system owned by an unnamed US city (>4m metro population). The airport system (1) makes money (2) is fettered in trying to do needed maintenance by City budgeting procedures. I have no idea why the city doesn't spin the airport system off at a profit. It just doesn't seem necessary for cities to own airports, and when they try "well private money wouldn't build this airport Butttown needs" it seems they just have an abandoned airport.