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* Frederik Pohl's novel ''Gateway'' was about, obviously, Gateway, an abandoned alien space port.
* The abandoned mall plays a semi-significant part in ''[[John Dies at the End]]''.
* The [[Robert A. Heinlein]] novel ''[[I Will Fear No Evil]]'' portrays the future United States as being filled with "AA's," i.e. Abandoned Areas, which are lawless no-man's lands that one doesn't travel through except in an armored vehicle.
* An abandoned construction site features prominently in ''[[Animorphs]]''.
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* ''[[Super Smash Bros.]] Brawl'' has The Ruined Zoo. The Opening Cut Scene gives off a sufficiently creepy atmosphere, but then the Music that plays over the level are fast paced Pokemon themes. but when you revisit the area in the great maze, the track that plays is a somewhat creepy version of the [[Earthbound]] theme "Snowman".
* Several of the levels of ''[[Half-Life 2]]'' and its subsequent episodes, including one in the abandoned part of a prison and one in an [[Abandoned Hospital]]. The latter, incidentally, being modeled after Pripyat.
* ''[[Modern Warfare|Call of Duty 4]]'' has two levels (a sniping mission and an escape mission) in Pripyat. They're really unnerving.
* The Space Colony ARK in ''[[Sonic Adventure 2]]'' and ''[[Shadow the Hedgehog]]''.
* In ''[[Fable II]]'' you travel through Wraithmarsh which was once a pleasant little village before everybody was killed so one villager could become immortal. The surrounding marsh has recovered much of the village and it's populated by all manner of foul things.
** It also has many other examples like the heroes guild, the temple of Light/Shadows and the forsaken fortress.
* Every single area in ''[[Zork Nemesis]]'' probably fits. Each area besides the first has only one inhabitant, all of whom have been driven insane by the solitude and the Nemesis.
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* [[wikipedia:Centralia, Pennsylvania|Centralia, Pennsylvania]], evacuated due to a massive underground coal fire, which has been described as "the real-life ''[[Silent Hill]]''".
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bcja8UBtXdk The Six Flags park in New Orleans] after Hurricane Katrina. It was scheduled to be torn down on January 2011, but those plans have since fallen through, so it still stands today, empty and creepy as fuck.
* The "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCyWF-MncrE lost theme park]" Splendid China, in Kissimmee, Florida, which went out of business in 2003, is now an "attraction" for [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kh1b8Eso2Vk local skateboarders who brave potential arrests for trespassing] in order to skate in the abandoned park.
* [[wikipedia:Dead mall|Dead malls]] are a subversion of this. A dead mall is a mall in which huge majority of the store spaces are unoccupied and there are very few patrons (if any), but the mall is technically open for business. One of the most extreme versions of this is the [[wikipedia:New South China Mall|New South China Mall]]--it's one of the largest malls in the entire world, with 2300 store spaces and amusement park-like attractions such as a roller coaster and a replica of [[Venice]]...yet less than 20 store spaces are in use and patronage is abysmal to the point where photos of it give the impression that the mall is closed for good.
** there was one very infamous abandoned mall, the Dixie Square Mall in Harvey, Illinois. after only a decade and a half in business, the mall closed and a year later it was used for the Mall chase scene in "The Blues Brothers", and then it was left to rot for 33 years before finally being demolished in 2012.
* The Ambassador Hotel In Los Angeles (notorious for being the location of Robert F. Kennedy's assassination), despite enjoying a very active afterlife as a movie set for various films and TV shows, still steadily decayed for two decades to the point where spores grew through the floor and carpets. Ironically, its final role was a younger version of itself in the Day-in-the-life movie [[Bobby]], even as it was being demolished.
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