From a weird amphibious vehicle built by the Soviets to a creepy spaceship left behind
by the Japanese, and even an abandoned train car from the famous Orient Express, here are
10 of the most incredible abandoned vehicles ever found!
10: Soviet Amphibious Vehicle A super bizarre amphibious vehicle was discovered
just sitting abandoned in Chelyabinsk, Russia.
The strange vehicle was apparently a project from the 1950s, built by engineers working
at the local hydraulics factory.
It almost looks like an iron tank or something out of a movie like Back to the Future, and
allegedly, it can even float on water.
The design of the thing is absolutely fascinating.
The door to get into the strange vehicle is located where the passenger side of the windshield
would normally be.
It opens from the front and you have to crawl into it.
It doesn't have any other seats, just the one, and a rickety old steering wheel to drive
it with.
The vehicle has eight tires, a fully aluminum body, and eight hydraulic motors, one powering
each wheel.
It also has two propellers powered by hydraulic motors for aquatic travel.
Unfortunately, not much else is known about the vehicle or why it was found seemingly
forgotten outside of what looks like a garage in Russia.
Whether it works or not is still a total mystery.
9: Sunken Airplane At the bottom of Folsom Lake, California,
an abandoned airplane has been found after 50 long years of total neglect.
The small aircraft sits 160 feet(49m) below the surface of the water.
It was discovered by a crew of curious researchers using underwater survey equipment, like a
submersible camera.
Based on pictures they managed to get from the bottom of the lake, the plane appears
to still be completely intact.
However, there is a bit of a mystery surrounding why the plane was put on the bottom of the
lake in the first place.
Nobody knows exactly where the abandoned thing came from.
As far as anyone knows, the plane likely crashed into the lake back in 1965, with all three
of its crew members drowning along with it.
However, the researchers were unable to determine if the bodies were still locked inside the
cockpit.
The families of the deceased individuals were contacted and they all told the Sheriff in
charge that they would prefer the plane and the remains of their loved ones to stay in
their final resting place.
8: Lost Cars A collection of rare cars worth over an estimated
$1,000,000 was recently discovered by a shocked urban explorer!
Where were these limited edition cars found?
In a random garage!
The 37 year old urban explorer from Winchester London goes by the name Ben, and he apparently
knew about the mysterious garage for several years prior to exploring it.
The rest of the property has been boarded up with wooden planks and overgrown by mother
nature, and so finally after keeping his eye on it for a while, he decided to investigate.
What he found inside the garage is nothing short of astonishing.
He found a 1957 Beadmore taxi, a Bristol Bullet prototype, and a Bentley Continental Flying
Spur.
These cars are ancient and super pricey!
They were expensive even back in the 50s.
According to Ben, he had never expected to find millions of dollars’ worth of cars.
Although, he should have expected to find something automotive considering the building
was once owned by an independent British car manufacturer called Bristol Cars.
During the COVID lockdown, the company went bankrupt and the facility was abandoned – although
judging by the state of some of these ancient vehicles, many of which are coated in decades'
worth of dust, they had been abandoned already for quite a long time.
The newest car in the collection is the Bristol Bullet, a prototype meant to celebrate the
70th birthday of the company.
But the car was never sold and this might be the only one ever manufactured.
What an awesome discovery!
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:) 7: Mysterious Shipwreck
The mysterious 500 year old shipwreck of the Esmeralda was discovered off the coast of
Oman.
The ship was once part of Vasco da Gama’s fleet.
Vasco was a Portuguese explorer from the 16th century.
It was on his second voyage to India that the Esmeralda and the Sao Pedro became wrecked
in a storm.
Even though the ship was discovered way back in 1998 off the coast of Al Hallaniyah Island
in the Arabian Sea, it wasn't until just recently that archaeologists excavated it and discovered
some pretty fascinating artifacts that revealed its true identity.
According to CNN, over 2800 artifacts have now been discovered from the wreckage, with
all clues pointing to this being the legendary Esmeralda.
Some of the artifacts include rare Portuguese coins that were minted specifically for trading
with India.
And perhaps most telling of all is a bronze bell discovered, believed to be the oldest
ship’s bell ever lost and recovered.
6: Historic Canoe River guides in the Chattooga River traveling
along the border of South Carolina and Georgia came across an ancient abandoned vehicle that
dates back at least 200 to 250 years.
This isn't a machine of war, it's not an airplane or a submarine – it’s one of the most
primitive vehicles ever made by human hands: a canoe.
The river guides saw the canoe sticking out from the riverbank.
After digging it from the sand and dragging it onto the shore, they realized they had
a piece of history in their hands.
The canoe was likely crafted in the 1700s, though it's unclear whether the canoe was
made by Native Americans or European settlers.
It's also not clear where the canoe came from either, since it had probably been drifting
aimlessly down the river for the last two centuries.
It’s about two feet(0.6m) wide and very narrow.
The vessel is extremely primitive, nothing more than the trunk of a tree that was hollowed
out probably with an iron axe.
But still, it did the job.
A lot of ancient canoes discovered in South Carolina were found in the Lowcountry, said
James Spirek, the state’s underwater archaeologist.
“Up in the mountains on the rivers, they’re a little rare,’’ he said.
“It’s interesting to find people were using canoes on some of these wild rivers.’’
The canoe, found below Sandy Ford between two major rapids on the Oconee County side
of the Chattooga, has some similarities to a 1740s-era boat found in the river 17 years
ago.
These were the first vehicles in America that allowed the settlers to slowly move across
the country, collecting furs and establishing settlements.
5: Spaceship Ropeway You’d think a place called the Spaceship
Roadway would have something to do with space or extraterrestrials, but the Spaceship Ropeway
in Japan doesn't actually have anything to do with either.
Instead, it's an aerial tramway station high up in a rural valley that overlooks the serpentine
river below.
The ropeway was once part of an amusement park on the other side of the valley.
The cable car station opened in the 1960s and ran for the next 40 years.
But when the park closed in 2000 due to poor management, the ropeway closed as well.
Now the gondolas are sitting abandoned and alone, looking like sad escape pods.
The most famous abandoned gondola here is a car built in the 1980s with the name “Silver’
written on it.
The car is at the very top of the tramway, still suspended from chains and pulleys as
if waiting to take customers down into the valley.
But unfortunately, the sad little gondola will never ride again.
One day, it might even detach from the tramway and go tumbling down the mountain!
4: Abandoned Tanks There is a field filled with abandoned tanks
in Sogel, Germany.
The tanks look fresh as if ready for war, but they've apparently been sitting abandoned
in the field for years.
There's nothing else in the area except for a dark and spooky forest and a couple of farms.
The armored vehicles stand in rows with six tanks to a line – and they’re just sitting
there, with no signs warning against trespassing and no fence to keep out curious explorers.
You can actually go and climb onto these tanks, though of course they no longer function and
you probably want to make sure you’re up to date on any tetanus shots.
Why are the tanks here in such a random place?
Well, the field has been used as a shooting range since 1877.
Soldiers learn how to shoot their guns here, tank cannons were tested, and even Big Bertha
was tested here!
Hitler visited the site in 1936 to order its expansion, which required a small village
to be demolished.
This happened in 1942, with the creepy remains of the broken village still visible through
the nearby forest.
The reason the tanks haven’t been moved is that even after roughly 150 years, the
field is still used for military training.
If you go during training, obviously you won’t be able to see the tanks, so be sure to plan
your visit!
3: Helicopter Graveyard There is an abandoned air force base in Russia
with a strange collection of abandoned military helicopters slowly rusting away.
Urban explorer Sergey Root took photographs of some of these decaying helicopters and
posted them online, giving people a unique look at the weaponry that the Soviet Union
wielded back during the Cold War.
Not only did Sergey find enough abandoned helicopters to form his own squadron, he also
discovered hundreds upon hundreds of abandoned fighter aircrafts just lying in ruins!
Within the graveyard of dead military vehicles, there is a forgotten military academy holding
the remains of a Soviet Union fighter jet, along with discarded Soviet uniforms and other
pieces of equipment.
The whole place has been abandoned in the truest sense of the word, with all this machinery,
which was once the pride of the Soviet Union, now simply left to rot.
2: The Washington Bus There is a quirky abandoned bus near Palouse
Falls in Washington that has become something of a local landmark.
The vehicle was once a school bus taking kids back and forth from class to homes, but was
abandoned at some point and left beside Route 260.
After so much time on the side of the road, it's become a beloved piece of the community.
Artists tagged the bus up with colorful and tasteful graffiti, even writing the word ‘Wanderland,’
on the side.
It looks pretty cool.
There was recently a battle between the local residents and the Washington Department of
Natural Resources to keep the bus on the side of the road where it belongs.
According to LeeAnn Blankenship, the president of the local historical museum board, the
bus hasn't moved in at least 30 years.
The issue is that the bus is sitting on the department’s land, so they are technically
liable if something bad happens to a person visiting the bus.
Unfortunately, the guys in charge decided to get rid of the school bus and throw it
in the trash.
A local landmark for 30 years will just be tossed in the garbage!
What a bummer!
One of the reasons the bus had been so interesting is that nobody knows who abandoned the bus
in the first place, where it came from, or how it managed to stay there for so long without
someone taking it.
1: The Orient Express The Orient Express is definitely the most
famous name among trains.
It was a glorious way to travel back in the early 1900s when trains were all the rage.
Even today, it's considered the most iconic train in history.
But sadly, the Orient Express’s days of glory are over.
There is even a train car that was once part of this legendary route abandoned and rusted,
sitting on the tracks in Belgium.
The train car was left here by the national railway company in the country many years
ago when they thought about building a railway museum.
The museum was never built though and the train was never moved.
Within the train there are still traces of luxury, like the plush interior of the carriages,
the fine detail in the wood carvings, and the extra-large seats for maximum comfort.
But even though we talk about the Orient Express as if it's gone, dead, and extinct, the train
does still run from Paris to Istanbul.
It never stopped, it just became significantly less popular.
The original route for the Orient Express moved through much of Europe, from Paris to
Munich, then from Vienna to Budapest, Budapest on to Bucharest, and the final stop in Istanbul.
It went from the West Coast of Europe to where Europe meets Asia.
The lonely car abandoned in Belgium is just one of many no longer in service.
The posh carriages of old have been replaced with modern, less extravagant ones.
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