Nature will always find her way to take it all back no matter how hard we try to create something. We should take a step back and admire this unstoppable force at work.
It’s really beautiful to see even though nature slowly creeps over man-made structures and at the same time, it will make you question how temporary everything surrounding us is. You can see how nature slowly reclaims what’s hers in the gallery below from traffic signs to entire cities.
#1 Amazing Abandoned 13th Century Château Located In France
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Afire broke out and caused devastating damage to all the building and its contents in 1932 and since then it has been left to the elements.
#2 An Abandoned Church In France
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#3 Someone Added Googley Eyes To This Tree Consuming A Bridge
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#4 Abandoned House, Norway Style
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#5 Abandoned Apartment Building Being Claimed By The Sea In The Former Fishing Village Of Kirovsky, Russia
#6 Statue Of Buddha Being Reclaimed By Mangrove Forest
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#7 The Desert Reclaiming Territories In Namibia. Now A Ghost Town, Kolmanskop Was Once An Oasis Where Miners Lived
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#8 Trees Sprouted On Top Of Abandoned Chimneys
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#9 I Saw A Tree Eating A Stop Sign
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#10 Scola Tower, Liguria, Italy
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#11 Abandoned Bike Reclaimed By Ivy
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#12 Mother Nature Is Calling. Somewhere In China
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#13 Trees Grow Inside The Hull Of A Sunken Ship
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#14 Abandoned Asylum In Italy That Has Been Touched By Bob Ross
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#15 Destined To Be Green. Abandoned Escalator
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#16 Shrine In Japan
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#17 This Tree Grew Over A Grave Stone And Took The Cross With It
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#18 Earth Slowly Reclaiming An Abandoned Boat – SS City Of Adelaide, Wrecked Off The Coast Of Magnetic Island, Australia
#19 A Barn Claimed By Kudzu In Tennessee
#20 Overgrown Roller Coaster
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#21 Abandoned Railway Bridge In Czech Republic
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#22 Mushrooms Growing Through The Floor!
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#23 This Tree I Found Growing In An Old Silo
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#24 This Building Was Completely Overgrown By Ivy
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#25 Abandoned Stone Cottage. Sneem/Kenmare, Ireland
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#26 Just A Little Moss, It Will Buff Out
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#27 Lost Road In WA
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#28 I Grew Up On The Puerto Rico Navy Base Which Closed In 2004. It’s Now Overgrown And Taken Over By Nature
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I found a picture of the road I grew up on- this is the part after the hill behind me. It makes me sad, there were lots of good memories there.
#29 I Found A Tree Growing Through Speed Limit Sign
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#30 This Tree Has Almost Completely Overgrown A Large Metal Sign Posted On It
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#31 Abandoned Car In Beijing
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#32 This Street Sign Has Been Covered By This Tree
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#33 Colony Of Moss Growing Inside A Bike Seat
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#34 A Tree Eating A Fence
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#35 Abandoned City Akarmara, Abkhazia
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#36 A Sacred Tree Reclaiming An Occupied 5 Story Building In An Old Section Of Downtown Kolkata
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#37 Road washed out by flood, WA state
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#38 This Tree Near My School Track That Absorbed A Fence And Shows The Pattern On The Bark
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#39 Nature Winning The Battle Against Civilization In The Exclusion Zone Around Chernobyl
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#40 Cactus In A Rain Gutter
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#41 This Tree Has Nearly Totally Grown Around A Sign
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#42 Abandoned Office Found With Lots Of Moss And Mold
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#43 An Old Abandoned Road Slowly Healing Over And Being Reclaimed By Nature
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#44 Found A Shoe In The Woods
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#45 These Plants Growing Out Of Someone’s Car
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