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Model astronaut houses, Hat Yai Observatory, Thailand. strange rusting pods connected in a row of three with eye like fogged over windows. — Model houses for astronauts, Hat Yai Observatory, Thailand © Joe Murray

Abandoned Train at Janakpur station, Nepal Railways — Abandoned Train at Janakpur station, Nepal Railways © Bijay chaurasia

Abandoned © Tom Hart Industrial factory building — Abandoned © Tom Hart

black and white photo of abandoned toilet with paint peeling from the walls © clo photo — DSC04771-Bearbeitet © clo photo

The Green Mile, green corridor with abandoned chairs © Puste Blümchen — The Green Mile © Puste Blümchen

empty swimming pool © Puste Blümchen — where’s my water © Puste Blümchen

abandoned room with bed and a green wall. © enki22 — abandoned room © enki22

Ducor Pool. The swimming pool area of the former Ducor Palace Hotel in Monrovia, Liberia. Diving Board and decayon blue tiles © Mark Fischer — Ducor Pool © Mark Fischer

Gas station in Ludlow California, great architecture, white. © el-toro — ludlow, cal © el-toro

The pool at Grossinger's Catskill Resort Hotel, Liberty, New York © Forsaken Fotos — The Pool at Grossinger’s Catskill Resort Hotel © Forsaken Fotos

room in an abandoned 1920's house, yellow walls and plantlife encroaching. © Cameron Evans — Abandoned © Cameron Evans

Abandoned © Basheer Tome — Abandoned © Basheer Tome (The Cape Romano Dome Homes)

Cool light © Forsaken fotos an abandoned clinical room in a hospital with peeling paint and a bug surgeons lamp — Cool light © Forsaken Fotos

A vertical view of the tiki bar at the Penn Hills Resort © Jonathan Haeber — Abandoned Tiki Bar © Jonathan Haeber

greenroom © Puste Blümchen. Chairs and a table in a derelict doom. Grass grows on the surfaces and the paper peels from the walls — greenroom © Puste Blümchen

Kenopsia

n. the eerie, forlorn atmosphere of a place that’s usually bustling with people but is now abandoned and quiet—a school hallway in the evening, an unlit office on a weekend, vacant fairgrounds—an emotional afterimage that makes it seem not just empty but hyper-empty, with a total population in the negative, who are so conspicuously absent they glow like neon signs.

Etymology: From Greek, kenosis "emptiness" + opsia "seeing"

From the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows. Thank you John Koenig.

Here is John Koenig's short film: Kenopsia: The Eeriness of Places Left Behind.

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