As solid and unshakable as we think our civilisation is, its grip on nature is tenuous at best. If any cracks appear in the faces of our buildings or our machines, nature is quick to move in and take over.
Quite a bit of thought has been given to the idea of what Earth might look like once we’re gone. Indeed, many books and TV shows on the topic have found that nature would take our places fairly quickly.
Many cities would be re-colonised within a year or two, and many of our buildings would begin crumbling soon after without human maintenance or energy sources. The Life After People series on the History Channel has a comprehensive timeline of collapses detailing when various famous landmarks of human civilisation throughout the world might give way to nature.
With this in mind, here are 19 photos of places and things that nature is in the process of reclaiming.
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| Abandoned 160-Year-Old Railway In Paris |
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| 102-Year-Old Abandoned Ship In Sydney, Australia |
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| Abandoned Ferris Wheel |
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| Abandoned Fishermen’s Town In Kamchatka, Russia |
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| Abandoned Hotel Room |
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| Abandoned Inner City Railway In Paris |
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| Abandoned Shopping Mall Taken Over By Fish In Bangkok |
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| Abandoned Train Station In Abkhazia |
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| Angkor, Cambodia |
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| Bicycle Eaten by A Tree On Vashon Island, Washington |
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| Cooling Tower, Belgium |
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| Old Abandoned Mill In Sorrento, Italy |
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| The Old Piano Tree, California |
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| The Radioactive Ghost City Of Pripyat, Ukraine |
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| Tree Roots Overcoming Brick Sidewalk |
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| Trees Winning Against Concrete In Hong Kong |
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| Vintage Automobile Graveyard, Belgium |
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| Abandoned Mansion Near Kilgarvan, Ireland |
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| Abandoned Mining Town, Namibia |
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