Once-Majestic Places Now Taken Over By The Wild

By Jack Ripley | April 12, 2023

Abandoned Soviet passenger Hydrofoil rusting away in the autumn forest near Kama Reservoir

Many places of interest around the world have been abandoned or destroyed for various reasons. Some of these places are picturesque or entertaining such as amusement parks where many people once took vacations to. Besides the vacation hot spots that were abandoned, there are also some not so beautiful abandoned houses and wrecked vehicles (cars, planes, boats, etc.) that leaves one intrigued with mystery as to the details of those wrecks and stories behind those old abandoned houses.

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A rocket on water?  In the 1960s, Russia introduced these high-speed, high passenger machines to get around on the waterways much faster.  There were used until the 1980's and were given cool names like "Sputnik," "Comet," and "Meteor."  This particular one was used in a fleet of vessels considered to be heroes in the Russian waterways.  It could rise up out of the water at very high speeds.  But when economic collapse hit the Soviet Union, production stopped and they were sent to die in this ship graveyard near Perm.

The remains of the Pegasus in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica

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On October 8, 1970, this C-121 Lockheed Constellation aircraft crashed.  It was horrible weather that day; but luckily, none of the 80 passengers were injured.  Because the weather changes so much in that area, planes flying from New Zealand to McMurdo have to make mid-air decisions on whether or not they have enough fuel to turn around and go back to New Zealand if they cannot land at McMurdo.  On this particular day, the weather was terrible but the plane had already passed the point of safe return (PSR) so they had no choice but to attempt to land.  Now this area is named Pegasus after this plane.