where and how do i find places like this?

>>2819350 (OP)
romania

>>2819350 (OP)
Look for abandoned rail lines. Towns always pop along rail lines. When newer/better lines are built, the old ones are abandoned and those towns don't often survive. Same with old highways. Take the historic 1 or 101 and you'll pass through entire ghost towns.

>>2819358
yeah. dont suppose you get too many of them in the uk

>>2819350 (OP)
this is literally any abandoned town in the former ussr

take trains. trains go through places that you can't see from roads. you'll find all kinds of derelict properties, hidden infrastructure, industrial buildings, etc.

if you have a train you can take locally take it and take it way out somewhere and keep your eyes pieled

>>2819350 (OP)
Small, overgrown industrial ruins in the woods? Central Vermont depending on the area.

>>2819411
Do you just keep a GPS with you and take notes?

Looks like Claremont NH

>>2819359
Probably not. Some nice castles though. To get overgrown abandoned places, you need a lot of open land and you're not often going to find that on a populated island.

>>2819448
do you not have a mobile phone? that has a gps and with the right maps app you can drop labeled pins

>>2819543
thanks. im actually planning a trip to mainland europe soon. if you know any places like the one in the cover photo please let me know :)

>>2819703
Mainland Europe should have lots of places like that. The Maginot Line is a series of abandoned military fortifications. There are a lot of remnants of the two world wars. The eastern block countries also have many ruins and ghost towns from after ww2 during the USSR days. Millions starved to death towns and cities collapsed. There's thousands of years of human history in Europe. Unfortunately, I can't point you to any one spot, as I've never had the opportunity to visit myself. I've been to England, Ireland, Germany, Crete and Turkey. But didn't do much exploration outside of the touristy areas.

>>2819688
that's a good idea
I only use my phone for work

>>2819350 (OP)
Rustbelt in the USA.
In Europe everything that was part of the Soviet union, so East Germany is a good place. Tons of abandoned factories, hospitals and even military bases, bunkers and airfields.

>>2819359
Nope, British Isles are fully saturated and developed, logged and stripped clear of all resources. The only thing they had left was finance, which has fallen as well. No longer the home of the Britons, they decided to give it away to muslims :)

>>2819350 (OP)
eastern europe OR rust belt america.
thats about it

>>2819359
The towns are still there because of modern infrastructure and the relatively well developed cooperative system that prevented towns from being literally just one big company like in some parts of America and our very generous welfare system. However the industrial infrastructure is still there and rotting. I live in Northumberland and if I go out for a walk I usually spot a few industrial ruins. There was some bridge near my town that they had to shut to film an episode of Vera. It used to be used for a small railway that no longer exists and it was cheaper to just leave it there to rot so we have a massive rotting and rusting wood and iron bridge between our town and the village over the river. There's also disused pit mines and slag heaps. A lot of "hills" near the river Tyne are actually slag heaps that have had topsoil planted with fast growing trees chucked over the top. There's actually a disused pit at the end of my street but they planted some trees around it so it just looks like woodland.

There's plenty here if you know where to look.

>>2821169
I should note for those not aware, one of the largest supermarkets in the UK is a cooperative and many of the other supermarkets and chains are willing to run a large amount of stores at a loss to secure a larger portion of the market share. This was also true of the railway companies prior to the first nationalisation. The result of this is that a provincial town or village did not need to be profitable in its own right to remain viable.

>>2819359
Not entire towns, but plenty of abandoned industrial sites that look like this

>>2819350 (OP)
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>>2819752
I've recently seen the news of a teenager who died in my country and the mention of a "dangerous trend" called "Urbex". Because it always starts this way, I assume the EU will soon begin to outlaw being outside and make so that you need a permit to be anywhere that isn't your workplace or nearest supermarket.