Ever since was a
young boy I loved exploring old houses, abandoned buildings and other assorted dilapidated
and derelict vehicles and structures.
There’s something thrilling (and a little sad) about walking
through buildings that once housed businesses and families. You see such structures all about: long
forgotten and decaying buildings such as hotels, gas stations, merchandise
stores, homes, railroad stations, auditoriums, malls, churches, amusement
parks, buses, aircraft and so forth.
The new book from JonGlez: Forbidden Places: Exploring Our Abandoned
Heritage from Sylvain Margaine (with text by David Margaine) takes a visual
tour of abandoned building and vehicles from all over the world. Hotels, auditoriums, places of worship,
sanitariums, palaces, etc. are all explored.
Many have been left to rot while others are in the process of
rejuvenation.
It’s a little spooky looking at hotel rooms left just as
they were when the residents left.
Clothing, bed sheets, personal items, etc. are left just as they
were-some decades old. Food and drink
left to rot in old restaurants, furniture left to crumble and room interiors
falling into ruin are just a few of the images included.
It’s a haunting book, filled with moody and shadow drenched buildings
makes for a thought-provoking read that I won’t soon forget.