wilwheaton
wilwheaton

Built to support a mining community, this town was abandoned almost overnight when the price of the metals they were mining crashed. The power has been left on for thirty years, though, so nearly everything inside the town’s buildings is perfectly preserved. This is a really neat photo essay.

decayvery little decayBCKitsaultwho's been paying for this electricity?this all seems strange

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    This. I want to fucking go here so bad.
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    My grandfather worked for the mining company, and was a caretaker at Kitsault during a period when the mine was shut...
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    This kind of thing really pisses me off, you hear about abandoned towns like this all the time yet there is a huge...
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    I know where I’m heading when the zombiepocylypse comes…
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    This is perfectly eerie.
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    I would love to live in a place like this… stunning!!!
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