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{{quote|'''Sally Sparrow:''' I love old things. They make me feel sad.
'''Kathy Nightingale:''' What's good about sad?
'''Sally:''' It's happy for deep people.
|''[[Doctor Who]]'', "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S29/E10 Blink|Blink]]"}}
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* [[Sinister Subway]]
▲Also see [[Never Recycle a Building]]. [[Beautiful Void]] is a related trope.
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[Spirited Away]]'' takes place in an abandoned amusement park that just so happens to feature a bridge to the Spirit World.▼
== [[Literature]] ==
* 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]]''.
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* An abandoned construction site features prominently in ''[[Animorphs]]''.
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▲== [[Live Action TV]] ==
▲* Page quote comes from the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S29/E10 Blink|Blink]]", when Kathy asks her friend why exactly she broke into an abandoned house. There's a reason why she's so loved by the fanbase.
* ''[[Buck Rogers in the 25th Century]]'' has these too.
* The abandoned space station Empok Nor in ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]''.
* ''[[Life After People]]'' is about what would happen to the Earth if people suddenly disappeared, and uses a lot of real abandoned places to illustrate how things will decay.
* The broken Ascension Point in ''[[The Fades]]'' is located in an abandoned shopping centre.
* In ''[[Dark Conspiracy]]'', areas filled with otherplanar monsters are called "Demonground" and are avoided by humans.▼
▲* ''[[Spirited Away]]'' takes place in an abandoned amusement park that just so happens to feature a bridge to the Spirit World.
▲== [[Tabletop RPG]] ==
▲* In ''Dark Conspiracy'', areas filled with otherplanar monsters are called "Demonground" and are avoided by humans.
* ''[[Shadowrun]]''. You don't want to go into areas rated Z security unless you're heavily armed, armored and in numbers.
== [[Video Games]] ==
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* Lé Monde, in which all of ''[[Vagrant Story]]'' takes place.
* Everywhere you can visit except the [[The London Underground|tube stations]] in ''[[Hellgate:London]]''. Includes [[Abandoned Warehouse|warehouses]] and [[Ghost City|cityscapes]]. In the late game, a depot is set up in an aboveground courtyard, but even that's expected to be temporary.
* ''[[Last Window]]'': The
* Most of ''[[Portal 2]]'' takes place in an abandoned research facility.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
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* In ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court]]'', the Court is ''far'' larger than its population necessitates, leading to huge areas that seem completely abandoned. Whether these areas truly are abandoned is another question entirely.
* In ''[[Bird Boy]]'', [http://bird-boy.com/volume-1-page-15 Bali falls into one]{{Dead link}}.
* In ''[[Roza]]'' [http://www.junglestudio.com/roza/?date=2008-02-04 while chasing a thief].
* In ''[[The President]]'',
* In ''[[Shifters]]'' there are several examples of this trope. Many sections of The Undercity (beneath the [[Mega City]] where the comic is set
== [[Web Original]] ==▼
▲== Web Original ==
* The ''[[SCP Foundation]]'' has [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-470 SCP-470], an abandoned building that connects to every indoor abandoned location, including places that aren't on Earth or even from our reality.
* [http://www.deadmalls.com/ Deadmalls.com] documents abandoned, dead, and dying shopping malls.
* ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20131102215213/http://www.forgottenoh.com/ Forgotten Ohio]'' is filled with pictures of abandoned locales within the state of Ohio that the author has paid visits to. They run the gamut from factories, warehouses, and schools to ghost towns, drive-in theaters, and weird houses. Unsurprisingly, these places usually come with ghost legends.▼
== [[Real Life]] ==
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* 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.
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* 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.
▲* [https://web.archive.org/web/20131102215213/http://www.forgottenoh.com/ Forgotten Ohio] is filled with pictures of abandoned locales within the state of Ohio that the author has paid visits to. They run the gamut from factories, warehouses, and schools to ghost towns, drive-in theaters, and weird houses. Unsurprisingly, these places usually come with ghost legends.
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