I think that white thing is a very large soap dispenser! :)

I love photographs like this one. They are so calm and serene.

Many NYC subway stations along the N Sea Beach line look like the scene in this photo. The station near my house looks like it has been abandoned for more than 70 years or so, completely overgrown with vines and mushrooms. Despite the fact that this very station is one of the most high-priority stations along the N line, with the most rush-hour traffic.

OMG the soap dispenser stuff is still going on??? LOL

It almosts looks like the same bathroom where the hallucination scene in the movie "Lost Souls" was filmed in.

The view of the windows looked like a scene from ancient China: A writer's hermitage far in the mist covered mountains of Shanxi Prefecturate.

Amontillado is right Frida! It's good to know folks are still reading, and keeping theseold classics alive.

It looks like a Japanese munitions bunker in northeast China during the War. The Japanese occupationists built numerous bunkers because the Communist resistance are famous for relying on massed artillery strikes to obliterate distant enemy targets. The Japanese thought bunkers would keep them safe. Well, not really, when shells are fired at such a position that they ascend to the sky, then comes down in a completely vertical path.

During the Chinese Communist Revolution and the Anti Japanese War of 1937-1945 the leaders and commanders of the Red Army lived in abandoned rooms and buildings like the one pictured here. From derelict places choked with mildew and mold, the great leaders of the Communist Party planned and carried out the building of the future of China. After 1927, Chiang Kei Shek's Nationalists practically drove the Communists into hiding. From Yunan, they waged a counterattack, first defeating the Japanese imperialists, then defeating the Nationalists, and winning the hearts and minds of the Chinese people. The war is a story of endurance, and this picture brought many reminders of the headquarters of the Red Army during the war years.

its posibel to get in theres never secruity u should go in at night so the locals dont see you i always go in its not hard at all

Hey, I see the angry man too. Not an angry man to me though, more like a 15th Century
parchment with the middle torn away.

The view is so peaceful. Don't mind closing the door behind you. I done it pretty often when I go exploring these places, just to shut out the hustle and bustle of the world and enjoy the sunlight and Nature.

Now, get a shovel and dig where the beams meet. Maybe you'll find pirate treasure or something.........who knows?

Is this the entrance into the Wizarding world???

You should have positioned the camera at an angle so that the pipe is, a..well......closer to the.......figure. Never mind!!! LOL

Take away the castle, and the power lines, leave the rest. That's what the atmosphere of Jupiter will look like from an exploration vessel that will be sent into it's atmosphere in the next 10-20 years. All turbulence and wind and hydrogen sulfide clouds.

is it the most scareact place

There are many abandoned buildings around Xi'an, Shaanxi that we used to hold live-fire exercises and hostage rescue situations, I came upon this picture again and it reminded me of a building we used not too long ago. Our unit and two PLA Counter Terrorism Special Forces fire teams entered in an exercise to flush out imaginary snipers. These exercises are held in preparation for the Beijing Olympics 2008.
We ran from room to room with QBZ-95 bullpup rifles and fired at popup targets that raised into the air. It was sheer adrenaline, the jaw-cracking adrenaline of combat, live ammunition was used so it was just like World War II Anti-Japanese guerilla fighting in the mountains.
One of the rooms looked almost just like this, and my unit kicked in the door, in a mock hostage rescue attempt in case of a Munich style standoff that happened in 1972, and for almost a hour, we lie right outside, not moving, not uttering a sound. The sheer excitement of a soldier's life.

Actually this pan is a utility pan, not a puke pan. Sorry to declare you wrong, but during my service in the Chinese People's Liberation Army, every soldier is given one of these. And they are green, they are for every man to put his toothbrush, toothpaste, soap, razor and other toiletries. When I was stationed at Shaanxi, the guys in my unit would use these pans to collect wild herbs growing around our base, and add them to our daily supper rice and vegetables. We also have drinking cups of the same color.

Funny thing, though, I never expected to see these same pans being used in the USA.

Resembles the view into the courtyard from Qing Emperor Kangxi's palace. Just imagine two Qing imperial guards standing outide the doors with their blue robes, red hats, and holding spears with red lace wrapped around the base of their blades.
Kangxi was the last great Emperor of China, unified almost all of the country, defeated two Mongol invasions, one in 1675 and another one in 1710. After his death in 1750, corrupt monarchs would open the country to Western imperialism, extortion, drug trade, and sex trade during the 1800s, followed by capitalist revolution in 1911, a devastating invasion by the Japanese Empire in 1937, finally a People's Revolution from 1946-1949, and the Communist Party finally established control and order again.
Makes me wonder, so many people sacrificed themselves to install a powerful Republic, Kangxi was the last greatest ruler until the People established an agrarian and industrial republic in 1949.

I instantly recognize the plant, Nasturtium, garden salad variety, New England type.

Once again.....If I don't know about this picture, I would definitely assume this is China again, it looks exactly like an apartment building in Chiu'Shu, suburbs of Pudong distrct, Shanghai City. Especially the buildings around Loyang Road, the main highway that connects the city with Pudong International Airport.

It really resembles the buildings in my hometown of Shanghai China, in the Szechuan Road District, filled with wonton soup restaurants, and electric trolley cars. Only thing missing from this pic is the trolley cables, and the wonton shops, and the hot summer haze.

Motts, if you have a few guys, dress them up in slouch hats and long winter coats, add a girl wearing a bonnet, with the men carrying heavy books, you can name this picture: "Puritans heading to Church, New Haven, Connecticut,1632"

This one looks like a Currier & Ives lithograph from the 19th century.

Give yourself a pat on the back for such a piece of good work!

Motts, you should have placed a beautiful girl just behind that lighted arch with her facing the viewer. That would make the photo more surreal.