The Pontiac Silverdome is a vacant sports stadium, formerly the home of the Detroit Lions football team, and the Detroit Pistons basketball team. Other major events included Wrestlemania III, which set a world record for attendance at an indoor event. The Lions left the stadium in 2002, after which some concerts and sports events were held. The Silverdome has been vacant since 2012, and the contents are being auctioned off

Taken at Ta Prohm Temple, Cambodia. It was built in the Bayon style largely in the late 12th and early 13th centuries and originally called Rajavihara.

Tomioka, Japan is a ghost town. Deadly levels of radiation, leaked from the crippled plant after a tsunami struck Japan's east coast in 2011, have rendered the hometown of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant an apocalyptic wasteland. The town's nearly 16,000 residents in over 6,000 households are still barred from returning to their homes.

“This is a unique shelter! It is packed with old Soviet defense stuff! I think so much stuff is there because the shelter is half flooded and not many will risk going there barefoot, but I took my gumboots with me to enter” – writes the photographer, who took a trip to this place recently.

Visiting abandoned towns can be hazardous for a number of reasons, including crumbling structures and guards who will shoot trespassers on sight. But some ghost towns have toxic legacies due to chemicals, radiation, or even biological weapons.

The Sochi Olympics is over and the city has become rather deserted. Sportsmen and fans have left, buses are empty, cars are rare, and some buildings have never been finished… But spring has already come, new grass is undulating in the breeze and maybe quite soon something interesting will start happening here. For example, there is speculation that Formula 1 races are to be held in Sochi.

Deserted Spanish villages, some of them centuries old, can now be acquired free or bought very cheaply.

For sale: hamlet in Spain. Needs work. Price: zero euros. Like thousands of abandoned villages in Spain, A Barca - with its 12 crumbling stone homes covered in moss and ivy - is seeking a new owner to bring it back to life.

This creepy ship has fought in 2 world wars but now lies abandoned.

Things did not begin well for the Oregon lighthouse that came to be known as Terrible Tilly.

The Superconducting Super Collider (SSC) was a particle accelerator complex under construction in the vicinity of Waxahachie, Texas, that was set to be the world's largest and most energetic. In 1993 the project was cancelled due to budget problems and the Super Collider was abandoned on the fields of Texas.

Sweepstakes (also known as Sweeps) was a Canadian schooner built in Burlington, Ontario in 1867. It was damaged off Cove Island then towed to Big Tub Harbour, where it sank in September 1885. The remains of Sweepstakes lie in Big Tub Harbour, located in the Fathom Five National Marine Park, in Tobermory, Ontario.

Homebush Bay in Sydney, Australia is home to the remains of a demolition site that worked during the mid 20th century. The "SS Ayrfield" a behemoth 1,140 tons built in 1911 and used during World War II as a transport ship was towed to Homebush Bay and disassembled to recover all components that could be reused or sold for scrap.

More sailors have been abandoned by their employers than taken hostage by Somali pirates, a controversial practice to avoid big expenses.

A ghost ship carrying nothing but disease-ridden rats could be about to make land on Britain’s shore, experts have warned.

Uploaded by: sillygal This old house still standing along the dismal swamp canal on Va side. I had the pleasure of going into the house...Edgar Allen Poe supposedly stayed there for a while when he was writing the Raven. If walls could talk.

From the year 2000. Couldn't find original source.

This castle was build in the late 1800s and was abandoned in 1991. Since then it has been rotting away.

Part of the famous SS Thistlegorm wreck, this truck is one of the few left with the steering wheel in place. Photograph by Alexia Dunand.