The Manchester Convalescent Home or Barnes Hospital was completed in 1875 and can be noted as an example of gothic revival architecture. It was initially built to be in a rural setting, but now the area around Cheadle is surrounded by roads. It was inspired by the nursing of the great Florence Nightingale but was eventually closed in 1999. The building was left to rot and fell into a state of neglect.
It has been sold and resold from one developer to the next for as much as 12 million euros, and eventually, construction began on the building to convert it into residential units. The construction company must be careful to preserve the building as it is protected. The building has been used as a set for the 1974 horror film, “Let sleeping corpses lie” and in 2005 to film an episode of “Most Haunted Live.” This is the perfect setting for a horror film as an abandoned gothic hospital certainly has a creepy feel to it.
Abandoned Cottage at The Kerry Way Walking Path Between Sneem And Kenmare in Ireland
This abandoned cottage which is now more moss than bricks and mortar can be found along the Kerry Way walking trail. This trail is a 133-mile-long circular trail that usually takes around nine days to complete and starts and ends in Killarney. Along the way is the beautiful scenery of County Kerry including, Muckross Lake, the Torc Waterfall, and The Black Valley.
It was first proposed in 1982 and cost approximately 60,000 IEPs to complete. It forms part of the E8 European Walking Route which runs all the way from Dursey Island in County Cork to Istanbul in Turkey. If you thought you needed to get fit for the Kerry Way, just imagine how in shape you’d need to be to complete the E8!
The Remains Of The Pegasus in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica
This area is named after the Pegasus plane which crashed in the area on 8 October 1970. The model of the aircraft was a C-121 Lockheed Constellation. The weather conditions that day had been poor and can change quickly meaning pilots have to think mid-air soon whether or not it is safe to continue or to turn the plane around and go back to New Zealand.
On this occasion, they had already passed the Point of Safe Return (PSR), and there was not enough fuel to get them home safely, so they decided to make an emergency landing in Antarctica. Amazingly none of the 80 passengers on board that day were injured despite the terrible weather conditions.
'Haunted House' Built in 1908 in Belgium
This house dates back to 1908 when it was built in Belgium. It definitely has the potential for grandeur with its spires on the roof, bay windows, and high ceilings. It is surrounded by a cornfield and benefits from being set back off the road so would be nice and quiet.
Unfortunately, it has been abandoned and has been left to decay. Half of the windows are broken or shattered, many of the floorboards are broken or creaking, and the wallpaper is peeling off which is probably to do with a rising damp issue. The building definitely has a creepy feel to it, with its boarded-up windows and crumbling walls.
Ryugyong Hotel – Pyongyang, North Korea
The enormous Ryugyong Hotel was a project under the North Korean dictatorship, and with 105 floors it would be one of the tallest hotels in the world. However, the country was plagued by famine, and work on the hotel ground to a halt.
Then in 2008 they decided to make the building weatherproof and fitted it with an outer layer of glass costing a huge $150 million. Much of the hotel remains unfinished to this day, despite having a polished look from the outside.