OT: Skyscrapers, Buildings etc.

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The Wilde one said:
Wow. Why was it abandoned? I love how nature takes control again, with the grass forcing its way through concrete.
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I think it simply wasn't needed any more: decreasing demand for coal and unfortunately for those who lived there its primary use was to house mining families. Fortunate for us all now though because it looks incredible.
 
I was suprised how well cod 4 petrayed Pripyat ,there is a video comparing it to real life and it look identical

Would love to go and take photos of jt
 
I'd like to go the the Monastery/Al Khazneh at Petra, in Jordan

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Whole buildings carved into rocks.

Just read it wasn't discovered to the Western world till 1812.
 
Speedo said:
Although this has already been posted, I think you'll get let off cos it's well cool. (Also, wasn't an Indiana Jones film shot there?)
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<laugh> everything I've posted seems to have already been mentioned! Definitely cool though, really detailed.

Just googled it and yeah, apparently it was a film location for Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Also filmed in Hertfordshire <diva>
 
You'veBeenTiote'd said:
This has the story behind it: http://www.cracked.com/article_18830_the-6-creepiest-places-earth-part-2.html
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Can't beat Cracked.com!

Sorry, haven't read through the whole of this thread (couldn't post pictures when it was originally conceived) so if sorry if this has already been posted, but one of the coolest/weirdest buildings I've seen in real life was this, in Singapore:

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I really like my Uni as well, but that's more sentimental than impressive:
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Jesus Was A Geordie said:
Can't beat Cracked.com!

Sorry, haven't read through the whole of this thread (couldn't post pictures when it was originally conceived) so if sorry if this has already been posted, but one of the coolest/weirdest buildings I've seen in real life was this, in Singapore:

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Wow, that is a cool building. Whats the name of it!?
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Hameln Burgerhaus

This is my town of birth, you might know it more as Hamelin.

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