Everything that is old was once new. When something is new, it's exciting simply because it's never been experienced before. Everyone wants to be the first to see something, first to experience something, first to feel something. As time passes the new becomes old and is eventually forgotten. Forgotten things are also abandoned.

Everything from cities once full of life

to factories once producing things that were also new at one time.

Buildings once without a trace of age, towns once so full you couldn't hear yourself think. All of these and more are places that have been abandoned. Though the people that once loved them for their new beauty have long since left the picture, there are people that love them for the flaws and the beauty of their age.

Riddling pages on Instagram, enveloping boards on Pinterest. The focus of many photographs, the refuge for a wandering soul. Abandoned places have such a strong effect on people and an incredible ability to make people feel.

Abandoned places have the ability to make people think.

They can haunt dreams.

It might make some people uncomfortable or scared, but for many people abandoned places hold mysteries and stories of a time now past. As humans, our track record of leaving things, places, even each other is very high. Liking something for being new is easy, but finding the beauty in the story of the old is something to have pride in.

The old. The mystery. The adventure. The beauty. Go find it.