Lost Places

[dukem73]

there's been some documentaries going on about places that were abandoned long time ago and then I stumbled over a website containing loads and loads of beautiful media capturing real places that are overgrown and deteriorated.

it's in german but you don't need to know the language to view the pictures.
http://www.lost-places.com/lostplaces.htm

examples:

bone church in kutna hora


ship cemetery in pagh


a steel factory in germany


steel factory in italy (direct link to all the pictures made there because they are all stunning)
http://www.lost-places.com/Bilder/lp040/

there's so much stuff which could be used for inspiration, you can lose yourself for hours probably on that site alone.

I did not want to put in fan fiction because the pictures neither were made by me, nor is it fiction.
just wanted to share this find after I saw the pinterest page.

[simplycorrect]

Since the game is taking place in the American Southwest I thought it would be cool to have a location based on these old cliff face ruins:



This one is called Cliff Palace located in Mesa Verde National Park in SW CO, but there are others as well.

[Drool]

I think a Tower of Silence type thing would be pretty neat. And creepy.

[dukem73]

did some more digging (especially about urban exploration in the USA, even though one could imagine the European pictures to be taken anywhere) there's tons of pictures that show very nicely what happens to places abandoned and nature slowly reclaims the place.

so here's 2 sites I found

http://www.anshitsu.eu/gallery/
first one is a very nice gallery partly showing pictures of abandoned places in the us. I think the jail is very fascinating, since it also kinda fits into the wasteland story.

theres also a gallery of a jet engine testing facility (how awesome is that ?)

http://www.fallout-ue.com/locations/
this one only shows lost places in the US (I think) also very interesting finds here.
theres an extensive list of links about urban exploration, where you can find more like this
http://www.flickr.com/photos/urbanizedus/ (mainly exploring in the USA)

those people are crazy and sometimes even go to jail for trespassing on private property in order to get these pictures.
(this site tells a story about someone who went to jail for urban exploration in the usa, its in german though http://der-schwarze-planet.de/42-stunde ... r-gittern/ )

[CaptainPatch]

Keeping with the post-war devastation imagery, I was thinking that all of the photos taken of Berlin in 1945 would mesh well with Wasteland areas that having "cleaned up" since the nukes fell. Here's an example of what I mean. (Ignore most of the photos with people present.) http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?60166-Battle-of-Berlin-1945

[b0rsuk]

What's that, Whimsyshire ? Kaplica Czaszek in Poland looks better:





http://atlasobscura.com/place/kaplica-c ... pel-skulls

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Also, there are tons of posts like that on Neatorama, Dark Roasted Blend, and Englishrussia. For example, creepy children playgrounds:














(I don't understand all of it, but the first word can be transliterated to "rajski", which means "paradise" (adjective))

[Balls Out 3]

I used to be into the urban exploration stuff years back. There were some various websites I used to look at, but there's one in particular that I never forgot about, and that's Opacity - Abandoned Photography and Urban Exploration. It' has a lot of great content from all around the world.

[Drool]

While none of these are really in the area the game will take place, it's still a neat list of vaults and secure locations. It could inspire fictional places to explore. And since keys and codes would be long gone, it would be really neat to try and break into such a place. Also, they could potentially house survivors and children of survivors who were inside when the apocalypse happened.

9 of the world's most secure vaults.

[reiniat]

It would be nice if we can go to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and find hundreds of useless gold ingots
http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/FedNY.jpg
But the lost places that i love in postapo games are half buried gass stations in the middle of the desert, or long lines of abandoned cars in erosioned roads, places in the middle of nowhere wich should hold some salvageable stuff.
Or some colonial cities
i put links because images are too big:
http://rrq00001.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/volcan-paricutin-uruapan-michoacan.jpg
http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/1377/paricutinxi4.jpg

[CaptainPatch]

It would be nice if we can go to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and find hundreds of useless gold ingots

If gold ever starts being worthless, it's a sure thing that at some point in the future, it WILL be valuable again. Hoarding it might do you any good during _your_ lifetime in a hand-to-mouth environment, but your grandchildren will certainly be thankful that you had the foresight to stash all those "useless" ingots where they would find them when they came of age.

[ButchinMelancholy]

Apart from money, gold is especially valuable for some technologies manufacture, so unlike paper currency this would always represent a real particular utility (in so far as we have the means to produce technology).