1. Paraguay

For a number of reasons, natural and human, people have recently evacuated or otherwise abandoned a number of places around the world. Collected here are recent scenes from nuclear-exclusion zones, blighted urban neighborhoods, towns where residents left to escape violence, unsold developments built during the real estate boom, ghost towns, and more.
由于自然和人類活動等諸如此類的原因，世界各地的人們撤離和廢棄了很多建筑和地方。下面的圖集中所呈現(xiàn)的無人區(qū)，有因為核災難人們被迫撤離的區(qū)域，有遭到破壞的城市居民區(qū)，有因為居民逃離暴力沖突而荒蕪的小鎮(zhèn)，有因為房地產泡沫破裂而無人問津的房屋，有鬼城的廢墟，還有許多：

1. A tree grows from the top of a chimney in an abandoned factory yard in Luque, on the outskirts of Asuncion, Paraguay, on October 2 , 2011.
2011年10月2日，巴拉圭首都亞松森市的郊區(qū)，一棵樹從一家廢棄工廠的煙囪里長出來。

2. China

2. A bust of Confucius rests at an abandoned workshop in the town of Dangcheng in Quyang county, 240 km (150 miles) southwest of Beijing, on December 7, 2011.
2011年12月7日，在距離北京西南部240公里的河北省曲陽縣黨城鄉(xiāng)，一尊孔子的頭像被丟棄在一個廢棄的工廠里。

3. Japan

3. Ivy grows over a street in Tomioka town, Fukushima, northeastern Japan, on August 19, 2011. Vines creep across Tomioka's empty streets, its prim gardens overgrown with waist-high weeds and meadow flowers.
2011年8月19日，日本福島縣富岡市的一條街道上長滿了常春藤。葡萄藤爬過富岡市空無一人的街道，之前整潔的花園里瘋長了齊腰高的雜草和野花。

4.Libya

4. Sand blows across the coastal highway near Brega in eastern Libya, on April 1, 2011.
2011年4月1日，利比亞東部的布瑞加市附近的沿海高速公路上刮起了狂沙。

5. Ireland

5. Cnoc An Iuir, an empty and unsold housing development, is pictured in the village of Drumshanbo, County Leitrim, Ireland, on January 28, 2012. During the economic boom, Irish developers attempted to cash in, building tens of thousands of houses. However, poor planning decisions and the global recession have resulted in a large number of estates being abandoned, unoccupied or unfinished.
2012年1月28日，愛爾蘭利特里姆郡德拉姆山伯村一處空空無人問津的房地產開發(fā)項目。經濟快速發(fā)展時期，愛爾蘭的投資商蜂擁而來投入巨資建造了上萬座住宅。然而規(guī)劃決策的缺陷和全球經濟衰退，使得一大批的房地產項目遭遺棄，無人居住或是沒有完工。

6. Libya

6. The abandoned conference hall inside the Benghazi Cathedral, in the Libyan rebels' stronghold city of Benghazi, photographed on June 5, 2011. Benghazi Cathedral, designed by Italian architects Guido Ottavo and Cabiati Ferrazza, was built between 1929 and 1939, and was one of the largest churches in North Africa. The building was later used as a headquarters for the Arab Socialist Union, finally becoming vacant and derelict. As of 2009, the cathedral and its entire site have been under renovation by an Italian company.
2011年6月5日，利比亞反叛武裝要塞城市班加西的大教堂里大廳內空無一人。班加西大教堂由意大利建筑師Guido Ottavo和Cabiati Ferrazza設計，教堂建于1929年到1939年間，是北非最大的教堂之一。這座教堂曾經是阿拉伯社會主義聯(lián)盟的總部，后來遭到遺棄。2009年，一家意大利公司對教堂和主體建筑進行翻新。

7. Iraq

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7. An arch that formerly read "The Alamo", at the entrance to the former U.S. soldiers living quarters at Camp Adder, near Nasiriyah, Iraq, on December 3, 2011.
2011年12月3日，伊拉克納西里耶的艾德營地，這里曾經有美軍士兵駐守。

8. British

8. Smashed windows and abandoned satellite dishes pepper a facade of one of the blocks of the derelict Heygate estate in South London, on November 29, 2011.
2011年11月29日，倫敦南部一個遭遺棄的房地產項目，一些窗戶的玻璃出現(xiàn)破損，衛(wèi)星天線孤零零地守在窗外。

9. Bulgaria

9. A goat walks through a deserted school classroom in the village of Voynitsa, some 100 kms (60 miles) north of the capital Sofia, at the heart of Bulgaria's northwestern region, on December 6, 2011. The bare fields, the empty roads, the ruined houses and the shuttered schools say it all. Welcome to Bulgaria's rural northwest, officially the poorest region in the European Union. In the 1970s and 1980s, the region saw massive

industrialization, making goods solely for the communist-era Comecon market. But when the Iron Curtain fell 20 years ago, the factories closed.

2011年12月6日，保加利亞首都索非亞以北100公里的沃伊特薩村，一只山羊闖進廢棄的教室。貧瘠的土地，空曠的公路，廢棄的房子和緊閉的學校說明了一切：歡迎來到保加利亞西北部，歐盟最貧困的地區(qū)。上世紀七八十年代，當?shù)刈呱洗笠?guī)模的工業(yè)化道路，所制造的產品只供給共產主義時代的經濟互助委員會。20年前蘇聯(lián)解體后工廠隨之關閉。

10.Ukraine

10. A view of the abandoned city of Prypiat near the failed Chernobyl nuclear power plant, on April 15, 2011.
2011年4月15日，烏克蘭切爾諾貝利核電站附近的鬼城普里皮亞季。

11.Mexico

11. A neighborhood of mostly empty houses in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, on December 21, 2011. Tens of thousands of people have abandoned Ciudad Juarez, a city wrecked by Mexico's drug violence. Although official figures vary, the city this month likely surpassed 10,000 homicides in the past four years.
2011年12月21日，墨西哥的華雷斯市一個街區(qū)大部分的房屋空無一人。墨西哥毒品暴力一直在這個城市肆虐，導致數(shù)萬居民被迫離開家園。雖然官方數(shù)據(jù)不確定，但本月?lián)烙嬙谶^去4年時間里，當?shù)毓灿谐^1萬人遇害。

12. America

12. A damaged home at dusk in Joplin, Missouri, on August 16, 2011. Residents were still recovering and rebuilding from a devastating tornado that ripped through Joplin, in late May, 2011.
2011年8月16日，美國密蘇里州的喬普林被龍卷風摧毀的房屋。2011年5月末，喬普林市遭到毀滅性的龍卷風襲擊。目前當?shù)鼐用袢栽趶膫粗谢謴秃椭亟覉@。

13.America

13. Swings hang in tall grass at a playground in Scenic, South Dakota, on October 6, 2011. The city's school closed down in the late 1990s, when the area ran out of school-aged children to teach. The city was recently sold by ailing owner Twila Merril to Iglesia ni Cristo, a Filipino church whose intentions are a complete mystery to area residents.
2011年10月6日，美國南達科他州錫尼克的一所廢棄學校，操場內野草叢生。上世紀90年代末，這所學校因當?shù)貙W齡兒童數(shù)量太少被迫關閉。最近菲律賓基督堂教會買下了錫尼克，至于買來做什么現(xiàn)在仍舊是一個謎。

14. German

14. Fiberglass dinosaurs and swans at the abandoned amusement park Spreepark in Berlin, on July 16, 2011. Berlin is littered with relics of its communist past, and one of the eeriest is the Spreepark, where the remains of what was once East Germany's only amusement park still stand.
2011年7月16日，德國柏林廢棄的游樂園Spreepark，玻璃纖維制造的恐龍和天鵝早已無人問津。共產主義時代的遺跡遍地都是的柏林市，Spreepark曾經是東德唯一一家游樂園，現(xiàn)在卻是柏林最詭異的東德廢墟之一。

15.America

15. The abandoned Michigan Central Station in Detroit, Michigan, on April 5, 2011.
2011年4月5日，美國密歇根州底特律廢棄的中央車站。

16. America

16. The interior of the abandoned Martyrs of Uganda Catholic Church, in Detroit, Michigan, on December 18, 2011.
2011年12月18日，密歇根州底特律市廢棄的烏干達殉教者天主教堂內部。

17.Spain

17. Apartment blocks in Sesena in the Toledo Provence near Madrid, Spain, seen on February 9, 2012. Only a 45-minute drive from downtown Madrid, towering vacant apartment blocks loom over empty streets and weed-filled lots. Apartments galore are for sale and rent, and prices are plunging. More than 13,000 apartments were supposed to go up here to create a mini-city for 30,000 people. But only 5,100 were built, many are uninhabited and most commercial storefronts in the mega-development are bricked shut. Spain's phenomenal real estate crash and economic implosion has turned what was supposed to become a vibrant suburban paradise for young Spanish couples and their children into one of the most visible monuments of the country's real estate boom gone bust.
2012年2月9日，西班牙托雷多的塞塞尼亞，一座座孤零零的公寓樓。塞塞尼亞離首都馬德里只有45分鐘的車程，空曠的街道和雜草叢生的土地上空閑的公寓樓高聳入云若影若現(xiàn)。按照計劃，當?shù)乇緦⒔ㄔ斐^1.3萬套公寓，形成一個可容納3萬人的迷你城市，但最后只建造了5100套，很多無人居住，絕大多數(shù)大型店面也被迫關閉。這里本該成為西班牙年輕夫婦和孩子的郊區(qū)天堂，而現(xiàn)在這些公寓樓卻成為西班牙房地產泡沫破裂和經濟內爆的一個縮影。

18.Greece

18. Unused flagposts stand in front of a litter-strewn water feature in the 2004 Olympic Games Complex in Athens, Greece, on February 18, 2012. In 2004 the Olympics returned to Greece, the birthplace of the ancient and modern Olympic Games, however the legacy of the Games has been called into question with many facilities falling into disrepair less than 8 years after they were held.?
2012年2月18日，希臘雅典一個荒廢的奧運會設施，光禿禿的旗桿矗立在充斥著垃圾的水池旁。作為傳統(tǒng)和現(xiàn)代奧林匹克運動的故鄉(xiāng)，2004年奧運會回歸雅典卻在讓雅典人為之興奮的同時也帶來麻煩。還不到八年的時間，很多奧運設施就已經處在荒廢狀態(tài)。

19.Greece

19. Discarded fencing outside the Olympic indoor pool and the OAKA sports hall in the 2004 Olympic Games Complex in Athens, Greece, on February 18, 2012.
2012年2月18日，舉辦過2004年奧運會的雅典奧林匹克室內游泳館和體育中心衰敗的外部景象。

20.America

20. A hallway in the empty Pennhurst State Hospital in Spring City, Pennsylvania, on September 15, 2010. Since the last residents left more than 20 years ago, Pennhurst State Hospital sat vacant.
2010年9月15日，美國賓夕法尼亞州春城，潘恩赫斯特州立醫(yī)院空無一人的走廊。在20多年前最后一批居民離開后，這所醫(yī)院遭到荒廢。