This Blog is Not Really Abandoned

Urban Exploration for Small Town Girls (and Women)

Exploring Ontario Rural Ruins

Snip.it Urbex and Rural Exploration

Moved to Green Living History

Moved this to: http://www.greenlivinghistory.com

Cemeteries, Graveyards

Flickr: The Cemetery 

Abandoned Places: Houses in Decay

Houses:

Flickr: Dilapidated Houses
Flickr: Lonely Houses
Flickr: Lost, Forgotten Homes
Flickr: Old, Abandoned Houses
Flickr: House Abandoned 
Flickr: Leaning Houses 
Flickr: Eyðibýli - Abandoned Houses


Flickr: Abandoned Cottages 

Flickr: Historic Homes

Abandoned Places: Commercial or Retail Decay

Commercial or Retail Buildings (not Industrial):
Abandoned Theatres
Flickr: Former Theaters

Flickr: Old Banks

Empty Buildings for Economic Reasons
Dead Malls and Vacant Retail
Closed for Business

Flickr: Abandoned Motels
Flickr: Abandoned Hotels

Flickr: Abandoned Gas Stations 

Flickr: Dead Diners 

Abandoned Places: Rural Decay

Rural Places:

Flickr: Rural Deterioration
Flickr: Rural Decay 2  
Flickr: Rural Exploration 

Abandoned Farms
This Old House, Barn Building
Farms, Barns and Old Homesteads
Barns, Sheds and Other Rustic Rural Buildings
Derelict Farms

Flickr: Murder Shack -  pictures of rural shacks, sheds, or houses.

Abandoned Places: Urban Decay

Urban Places: These are not specific to any regional location. Also, does not include Industrial Decay.

Flickr: Urban Exploration
Flickr: Urban Decay
Flickr: Abandoned City  
Flickr: Urban Explorers  
Flickr: The Urban Decay Squad 
Flickr: Urban Secret and Forgotten Places 
Flickr: Urban Exploration Picture Group
Flickr: Urban Explora
Flickr: Statics Urban Exploring

Flickr: Some Urban Decay
Flickr: Urban Abandonments
Flickr: Art of Urbex

Flickr: Urbex: Urban Exploration
Flickr: U.E.
Flickr: Urban Exploration: Exploring Abandonments

Flickr: Urban Lemons  

Flickr: Passion for Urbex Stairs  

Flickr: Urbex Portraits  - Self portraits of urban explorers.

Flickr: Baked Urbex - "not just any HDR shots of Urban settings, but shots that are heavily baked with tools like Photomatix, Photoshop, etc. The more crispy the shot, the better".

Urban Exploration Webring 
Urbex Forum

Abandoned Places and Things: Generic Sites

Groups or sites which don't have a specific location or type of abandoned place/ thing. Generic abandonment. Sites without niches.

TalkUrbex
UER
ExploNation - photographic view of the normally unseen or off-limits parts of urban areas or industrial facilities.

Global Infiltration
Infiltration

LiveJournal: Abandoned Places

Flickr: Tresspassing 
Flickr: Infiltration
Flickr: Old and Beautiful
Flickr: I Love Abandonment!
Flickr: Abandoned : No HDR, No Tints, No crazy vignetting
Flickr: Abandoned
Flickr: Old and Forgotten
Flickr: Old and Abandoned

Flickr: Abandoned Places and Things  
Flickr: Decaying 

Flickr: Rot Squad
Flickr: Abandoned but Not Forgotten
Flickr: Abandonment
Flickr: Decayed Yet Hauntingly Beautiful
Flickr: The Decayed and the Abandoned
Flickr: Abandoned, Neglected, Weathered, or Rusty
Flickr: The Beauty of Neglect and Ruin

Flickr: Beautifully Ruined
Flickr: Abandoned Adventures
Flickr: Abandoned Beauties
Flickr: Abandoned Buildings and Such 
Flickr: The Abandoned and the Forgotten 

Flickr: Abandoned Places 
Flickr: The Abandoned 
Flickr: Decay 
Flickr: Beautiful Decay

Flickr: Eerie, Creepy or Spooky Places  
Flickr: Spooky Exterior 

Abandoned Things: Transportation in Decay

Vehicles, Railroads, Boats and Roads, anything to do with transportation.

Vehicles:
Flickr: Jalopy or Junked
Flickr: Abandoned Buses 
Flickr: Forgotten Cars  

Railroads:
Flickr: Lost Railroad Tracks
Flickr: Abandoned Railroad Grades or Roadbeds, Bridges, Tunnels 
Flickr: Railway Preservation
Flickr: Train Stations - The Older the Better 

Flickr: Abandoned Bicycles

Flickr: Abandoned Roads

Abandoned Places: Industrial Decay

Industrial places and locations.

Industrial Decay Blog
Flickr: Industrial Decay
Flickr: Post Industrial World
Flickr: Industry_Industrie_Industria 
Flickr: The End of Industry 
Flickr: Industrial Culture - A lot of decayed places, but not all are abandoned. Not required for this group.
Flickr: Industrial Abandonment

Ghost Signs

Ghost signs, faded signs, signs for businesses which have moved on (one way or another) and left a trace of themselves.

Flickr: Ghost Signs
Flickr: GhostSigns (Same name but a different group).
Flickr: Ghost Neon Signs
Flickr: Faded Signage
Flickr: Dead Signs

Flickr: Chicago Ghost Signs

Ghost Towns

 Generic sites or groups will be listed here. Check by location for more ghost towns.

Ghost Towns - US and Canada.


Flickr: Geisterhäuser Ghost Houses

Miscellaneous

Flickr: Abandoned // Polaroids - Abandoned places captured on Polaroid film.

Flickr: Macro Decay - Macro photography.

Flickr: Derelict Light -  For patches of light found among the wreckage.

Lost Architecture

Uncovered Architecture - The main focus is of old ornate structure that have had its beauty covered in modernizations, only to have them uncovered some time later, leaving beauty not seen in years.

Flickr: Bi-Passed  - This group is about old buildings or businesses that exist in the shadow of more recent highways, overpasses and other road construction.

Nature Reclaims Abandoned Places

Nature Laughs Last

Urban Vegetation

Arbortecture

Nature's Reclamation

International: Abandoned Places and Things

 This is a post in progress. I know Canada and the US are part of the world but for me it is easier to sort them this way (for now).

USSR:
Abandoned - Photos by Uryevich.

Japan:
Ghost Towns in Japan

Flickr: Urbex Malaysia  

Europe:
Forgotten.pl  
Flickr: Benelux Urban Exploring  - Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg.
Flickr: Urban Explorers (Nederlands)   
Flickr: L'Abbandono - Italy.

Forgotten/ Abandoned Things

By things I mean objects versus locations. Trying to decide whether some things are a thing or a place, like pools, for instance. But, if I don't get confused it should work out. 

Found Magazine
Mothballer Found Photos
Found Film

Flickr: Lost, Abandoned and Photographed

Flickr: Forgotten

Flickr: Derelict and Abandoned Things 
Flickr: Retired Objects 

Furniture: 

Flickr: Abandoned Furniture
Flickr: Abandoned Chairs
Flickr: Chairs at Abandonments
Flickr: Forgotten Furniture
Flickr: Sofa Free!



Flickr: Abandoned Pools


Clothing:

Flickr: Lost or Abandoned Shoes

Machinery:

Flickr: Wonders of Oxidation
Flickr: Abandoned Machinery



Flickr: Old Playground Furniture
Flickr: Abandoned Playgrounds

Abandoned Places

These are locations versus objects.

Flickr: Abandoned Structures
Flickr: Dilapidated Buildings
Flickr: If These Walls Could Talk...
Flickr: Any Derelict Building
Flickr: Haunted Houses, Buildings and Other Creepy Places
Flickr: Ruins
Flickr: Empty, Decayed and Derelict Buildings


Flickr: Abandoned Rooms 

Flickr: Abandoned Asylums  
Flickr: Asylums for the Insane 

Flickr: Abandoned Hospitals

Flickr: Church Ruins 

Flickr: Military Decay

US: Abandoned Places and Things

Flickr: Abandoned America
Flickr: Anything Abandoned - US focused.
Flickr: The Fading History of America

Flickr: Texas Ghost Towns  

Abandoned Ohio
Forgotten Ohio

Dark Passage - New York based.
Flickr: Abandoned New York State 
Flickr: Abandoned Railway Bridges of NY  

Opacity - New England based.

Modern Ruins - Mid Atlantic.

Flickr: Abandoned North Carolina

Chicago - Now Demolished, Lost, Destroyed, Razed
Flickr: Vanishing Chicago
Flickr: Chicago Urbex and Photography Group

Rural Decay Wisconsin
Flickr: Wisconsin Urbex

Abandoned Ok - Oklahoma.

Flickr: Abandoned San Diego Flickr Meetup

Flickr: Abandoned New Mexico

Flickr: Abandoned Florida

Flickr: Ghost Towns - The American West.
Flickr: Ghost Towns West Coast - US West Coast States.

Flickr: Silent Decay USA: North
Flickr: Silent Decay USA: North-East

Abandoned but not Forgotten - Site is down.

Flickr: Old American Department Stores  
Flickr: Historic Hotels of America 

Canada: Abandoned Places

Canadian sites with abandoned places, ghosts towns and paranormal trackers. Planning to make this a real resource with a lot more sites. Just taking my time to pull it all together. If you have a site to list leave a comment and I will have a look.

Early Canadiana Online
Heritage Canada
Library and Archives Canada
Flickr: Canadian History

Creepy Canada - TV show.
Facebook: Creepy Canada
Paranormal Studies and Investigations Canada
Facebook: Paranormal Studies and Investigations Canada
Facebook: Haunted Canada Research Society
Facebook: Canada's Most Haunted
Twitter: CanadaMostHaunt

Flickr: Abandoned Canada

East Coast:

The St. John's Haunted Hike
Grim Undertakings 
Facebook: Haunted Nova Scotia

West Coast:

British Columbia Ghost and Hauntings Research Society 
Flickr: Abandoned British Columbia 
Flickr: Vanishing Vancouver 
Flickr: Vancouver "Then and Now" 

Flickr: Historical and Abandoned Alberta 
Flickr: Historical and Abandoned Edmonton
Flickr: Historical Calgary  

Praries:

Flickr: Abandoned Saskatchewan 

Quebec:

Flickr: Abandoned Montreal
Flickr: Vanished Montreal  
Flickr: Montreal, Avant et Maintenant 
Spacing Montreal - Understanding the urban landscape. 


Flickr: Abandoned Quebec 

Ontario:

The Ontario Historical Society
Ontario Abandoned Places
ParaResearchers of Ontario
Southern Ontario Ghost Hunters
Flickr: Ontario Rural Ruins
Flickr: Creepy Ontario
Urban Exploration Ontario
Flickr: Abandoned Niagara 
The Toronto and Ontario Ghosts and Hauntings Research Society 
Facebook: Abandoned Houses of Ontario
Facebook: Ghost Towns, Abandoned Places and Historic Sites in Ontario
Heritage Photography Project - Abandoned Houses in Ontario


Facebook: Toronto, Ontario Paranormal Society
T.O.P.S. Paranormal - Toronto
Flickr: Toronto: Gone, But the Photo Remains 
Flickr: Brickworks - Toronto, Don Valley Brickworks
Flickr: Toronto Urban Decay  
Spacing Toronto - Understanding the urban landscape.

Burlington Ghost Walks 

Flickr: Whitby Psych - Whitby Psychiatric Facility.

Haunted Hamilton
Facebook: Haunted Hamilton 
Flickr: Historical Hamilton 

Ottawa Haunting and Paranormal Group
Ottawa Canada Urban Exploration

Urbex Barrie

Flickr: Thunder Bay in Decay