Defenders of Writeousness

Check out a few of these photojournals of abandoned places if you’re in need for some inspiration:

Chernobyl:

Kidofspeed has a wonderful travelogue of her motorcycle trip through the dead zone of the Chernobyl area. It’s fascinating and heartbreaking to see the subtle changes as she travels closer and closer to the epicenter of the disaster— herds of horses roaming, abandoned villages, a radioactive park that used to be full of roses.

The Huffington Post has a series of 25 pictures by a National Geographic photographer in remembrance of the 25th anniversary of the disaster. 

Abandoned Theme Parks:

Here’s a list of the 10 most memorable abandoned parks.

Six Flags New Orleans was never restored after Katrina landed and decimated the park. Photos of drowned parking lots, looted stores, submerged roller coasters, the Joker surveying the wildgrowth around the Batman rollercoaster and an immensely sad statue of that Six Flags old man up to his waist in water.

Here are 75 more high quality pictures of the area.

Standing But Not Operating is a website devoted to abandoned theme parks with many photo galleries.

Other Urban Exploration Accounts:

Undercity.org includes a lot of photos from an urban historian and photographer that chronicles the hidden places of NYC.

Forbidden-Places is utterly devoted to urban exploration and has numerous photo galleries for just about any place you could imagine— hospitals, asylums, ghost towns, you name it, they got it.