By Ben for weburbanist.com

Sometimes it is easy to find the beauty in abandoned buildings and cities, but in many cases the forces driving men from locations are relatively benign; economics, or the environment, or at worst a toalitarian government attempting to control a population. Man is capable of so much worse, however, and our wars have left abandoned buildings all over the world as haunting memorials to our capacity for violence. Sometimes, what becomes of them after the war is over is even more shameful than the event that brought their destruction about… 

Highway 1 

Highway 1 is the backbone of Vietnam, and was along the primary axis of the 1975 Easter Offensive that reunified the Southeast Asian nation under Northern leadership. The church visible here was clearly somebody’s last stand, and hasn’t been touched since 1975; the guard towers have been abandoned since the end of the war.

Mogadishu

“The Mog” as American soldiers sent there to keep the peace in the early 90s, is one of the most Anarchic locations on earth: racked by famine, and controlled by an ever-rotating warlord at the head of the local authority, the city has been plunged into such chaos since 1991 that the population isn’t know: somewhere between 1.5 and 3 million Somalis are believed to live there. 

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