30 Abandoned Places Nature Has Completely Taken Over

No matter how advanced we become or how tall our buildings rise, nature always finds a way to take back what’s hers. Time wears down even the most impressive structures, and sooner or later, the wild begins to creep in — vines covering walls, trees pushing through floors, and roots breaking through stone.

The photos below capture stunning examples of massive, once-proud buildings now reclaimed by nature. These abandoned places remind us that no matter how powerful we think we are, nature always has the final say. Scroll down and see how time transforms man-made marvels into hauntingly beautiful ruins.

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#1 Found this beautiful tree growing inside an abandoned silo while I was exploring.

#2 Bethlehem Steel, the factory that built NYC

#3 Abandoned prison in Romania. Sadly, I couldn’t explore it because there was a bear inside

#4 I was shunned from r/cozyplaces for this and told I’d be welcomed here. Sintra, Portugal

#5 Detroit’s Mark Twain Library, which was closed in 1996 for renovations and never reopened.

#6 The eerie yellow brick road of abandoned “Land of Oz” theme park in North Carolina

#7 Railroad tracks in forest

#8 Radioactive cars from the Fukushima disaster slowly being eaten by nature

#9 Abandoned church purchased by skaters and renovated into a dream park

#10 House abandoned and retaken by the desert in California

#11 Abandoned Gothic church in Portugal

#12 Abandoned world’s largest treehouse,Tennessee, USA now left to nature.

#13 Torre Scola, Italy

#14 Abandoned asylum in Italy that has been touched by bob ross

#15 Light rays making their way into an abandoned theater.

#16 MS World Discoverer was a german expedition cruise ship. It hit a uncharted reef in the sandfly passage, Solomon Islands 29. April 2000.

#17 Plague Fort, St. Petersburg

#18 Bus stop in Kazakhstan

#19 Abandoned island in Japan

#20 Abandoned French chapel

#21 This Hotel Swimming Pool

#22 Abandoned Police Station. No I didn’t steal a riot shield

#23 Abandoned 400-year-old estate in Italy that was home to the youngest sister of Napoleon Bonaparte

#24 New York City

#25 Entrance gate to an abandoned mansion In Poland

#26 Abandoned Richmond power station

#27 Old tanks left underwater

#28 Soviet Era Tupolev 104 Jet

#29 Ever seen and abandoned highway ?

#30 Abandoned man made island in Japan