Insane Abandoned Technology and Vehicles

from busted Batmobiles to Giant lightning machines the Wilderness is full of incredible inventions that have been left to Rust in Peace So today we're going to head into the wild and find them as we check out the most unusual abandoned technology and vehicles in the [Music] world submarine Subway if you go scuba diving off the coast of Charleston South Carolina you'll find what looks like the remains of an underwater civilization with a great public transport Network see around 30 m offshore the seabed is home to 50 toang subway cars from New York that are covered

in seaweed and swarming with fish it looks like the Lost City metro of Atlantis but the carriages were deliberately sunk 100 ft underwater in 2002 when the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources decided to create an artificial coral reef on the ocean floor the area's flat seabed has barely any rocks or natural corals so there isn't much food for fish to eat due to a lack of rock dwelling crustations and mollusks and the fish also have nowhere to hide from their predators so the so-called kamane Reef was created to become a new home for wildlife

and attract more fish to the area They removed each car gages windows and doors and when the cars were sunk they were soon colonized by muscle shrimp and hungry fish to eat them artificial reefs like this can contain around 400 times more food for fish than a flat seabed and today the abandoned subway cars are absolutely teeming with life that's still half as busy as the subway I have to take every morning French fly on the outskirts of chevi France there's a a rusty unassuming hanger that became home to an old hovercraft from the 1970s

this hunk of metal is the aerotrain I80 a futuristic vehicle that was developed by the French engineer Jean beran berten built several prototypes with different Aesthetics but they all functioned like giant hovercrafts that floated on an air cushion a couple of inches above a specially built monil track that ran through the Train's body as the train moved at pumped air against the top and sides of the rail which caused enough downforce to lift it up and enough sideways pressure to secure itself to the track regular trains are slowed down by the friction between the wheels

and the rails and commonly used models often top out at around 100 mph but the floating aot train didn't have to worry about this friction so it could fly above its track at 267 mph the I80 was the final prototype and it was ready in in 1974 B Burton had competition from another high-speed train system called tgv that was being developed by Fran's National Railway company sncf tgv trains ran on Specialized high-speed tracks that could carry them at around 200 mph but they didn't float so they could also use existing slower tracks where building new

ones would be too expensive this made it far more cost effective than the aerotrain and in 1974 the French government cancelled bertin's project and funded tgv instead tgv is still used today while most of the aerot trains have been left to rust in warehouses where they've been targeted by vandals and arsonists however this prototype 02 aerot train was rescued and displayed in a small Museum in Versailles and some of the monals are still visible in the French Countryside so remnants of the abandoned project live on and who knows maybe someday the aerot train will fly

again unlimited power some abandoned inventions are so mysterious that it's impossible to tell what they are like this gigantic Contraption left in a forest near Moscow Russia it looks like a spaceship that crash landed on Earth or the weirdest water slide in the world but in reality the device is a Marx generator that sits inside the high voltage Research Center a science facility that was abandoned after the fall of the Soviet Union I this machine is designed to charge itself up with massive amounts of electricity before using it to produce bolts of artificial lightning Soviet

scientists built it in the 1970s to test how well power lines and aircraft would stand up to lightning strikes but the generator was extremely expensive to operate so when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991 the newly formed Russian government couldn't afford to keep the facility running this meant that the research center was a abandoned and left GA dust but its Marx generator is still the largest in the world and in 2014 the Russian government briefly turned it back on for a demonstration to prove that it still works man I guess lightning can strike the same

place more than once the American dream I hate to break it to you but size does matter and this next vehicle is as big as abandoned cars get see the American dream is the long longest stretch limo in the world with a 100t long body that holds a hot tub a hella pad and a hinge in the middle to go around corners it was built in 1986 by Jay orberg car designer who famously developed the Delorean from Back to the Future he hoped Hollywood Studios would rent the LMO and use it in their movies but

it was incredibly expensive to maintain and a nightmare to park so nobody wanted to hire it in the late '90s Jak gave up on his dream and abandoned the limo outside a warehouse in New Jersey he thought the abandoned vehicle would sit there and ride away forever but he did put it on eBay in case anyone else wanted it around 20 years later in 2014 a man called Mike Manning bought it for an undisclosed sum to restore it but he discovered that he couldn't afford the extensive work the car needed so in 2019 he sold

it to Michael dieser the owner of a huge vehicle collection that's kept at the Orlando Auto Museum in Florida dieser had the funds to fix the LMO and 3 years and $250,000 later the dream was alive again the car has been fully restored to full working condition and today you can see the world's longest limo for yourself at the Orlando Auto Museum Rusty railroad out in the salard uuni Salt Flat in Bolivia lies a cemetery with over 100 bodies decaying under the sun on but it isn't a graveyard for people the train cemetery is an

area of the salt desert near the city of Yuni that contains over 100 abandoned train cars that have sat there since the 1940s CU uni was founded in 1890 and several Railways were built to connect it with Bolivia's other major cities this allowed a uni to become a railway Junction that linked the cities together and it soon became an important transport Hub in Bolivia's mining industry as trains carrying tin often pass through it on the way to their final destination uuni wanted to establish an even bigger rail network in the early 20th century so they

imported lots of new trains from Britain however the mining industry went downhill in the second half of the 1940s so the trains were no longer needed and the demoralized citizens of a Yuni dumped them in the desert where they've red ever since normally the lack of humidity in dry Desert Air would stop metal from rusting so badly but the salard Yuni is actually the world's largest Salt Flat which means it's the remnants of a saltwater lake that evaporated 40,000 years ago all the salt was left behind so whenever the wind blows it covers the train

Cemetery which eats away at the metal and speeds up the rusting process man somebody needs to put those poor locomotive corpses and coffins over and out Puerto Rico is a beautiful island paradise but if you venture out into the tropical forest around the city of arbo you'll find one giant blemish lying amongst the trees this concrete dish isn't King Kong's dinner plate and it's actually all that remains of an incredibly high-tech Space Telescope at the abandoned arbo Observatory the US National Science Foundation built the observatory in 1963 and they used it to examine asteroids Stars

and planets for over 50 years it was the largest telescope of its kind on Earth but in 2017 it was damaged by the category 5 hurricane Maria the NSF made repairs and continued to work at the observatory but the hurricane had weakened it and in August 2020 a cable holding up the telescope Central platform unexpectedly snapped and knocked a hole in the dish the NSF then spent months trying to repair it but on December 1st disaster struck when the remaining cables broken sent the entire platform crashing to the ground the damage was so catastrophic that

the foundation couldn't repair The Observatory meaning the telescope had trans admitted for the last time they've considered building an educational center on the site but for now the rubble of this record-breaking Observatory is still just lying there and I think it's pretty ambitious of Google Maps to list the site as temporarily closed sorry Google but I don't think we can buff this out ghost ships when you travel on a cruise ship you expect to receive a relaxing tour around some of the world's most beautiful Loc locations however in April 2000 the passengers aboard the MS

World Discoverer were treated to a pretty stressful experience that ended with them fleeing a shipwreck see as the Discover attempted to sail through the Sandfly passage in the Solomon Islands it hit an Uncharted coral reef which caused the ship to slowly topple over the captain sent out a distress signal and a nearby Ferry evacuated the passengers but he knew the ship was going down so he int intentionally beached it in rodri Bay to make the Salvage operation easier unfortunately salvage companies were unable to get there because the Solomon Islands was embroiled in a civil war

so the ship lay abandoned until 2004 when its owner Society Expeditions went bankrupt since then nobody has technically owned the abandoned ship so it hasn't been recovered but incredibly the Shipwreck has become a tourist attraction and holiday Bungalows have been built right next door allowing you to say a ston throw from the discoverer as picturesque as this wreck is some people are concerned that as the ship continues to degrade its engine will start to leak oil into rodri Bay back in 2015 a cruise ship called the ocean dream was docked in Lime shabang Thailand when

it sprung a leak and tilted onto its side the Shanghai East time ship management company didn't want to pay to salvage their boat so they abandoned it but a year later The Vessel started leaking oil and created a slick that was thousands of feet long forcing the owners to clean up their mess to prevent a full-blown environmental disaster so although the Discover hasn't started leaking oil yet maybe the ship will meet a similar fade and the waters in rodri bay may not stay crystal clear for much longer catastrophe if you own an expensive boat or

car the absolute worst case scenario is getting into an accident that causes it to go up in Flames but in fact February 2022 the Japanese Shipping Company m o suffered an even bigger loss when a single accident destroyed over 4,000 vehicles in one Fell Swoop see their cargo ship Felicity Ace was transporting around 4,000 cars from Germany to the us but as it passed the aorus archipelago the ship caught fire and the Flames rapidly spread through its hole some experts believe it was started by a faulty lithium battery in an electric car and after the

crew were evacuated the boat burned uncontrollably for around a week before the fire was finally extinguished a salvage company then spent another week figuring out how to safely move a boat of its size but they needn't have bothered because on March first the heavily damaged ship unexpectedly capsized and sank to the ocean floor taking its Precious Cargo with it the cars on board included 20 Lamborghini Huracan 190 Bentley and 1,1 17 Porsches and in total the vehicles were worth $438 million furthermore the cargo ship itself was worth 24.5 million so the incident was a pretty

big loss for M Mo but on the bright side the company is worth $12.2 billion so they'll definitely recover and the Felicity Aces abandoned cargo is still resting on the ocean floor so all the fish in the area received a shipment of some brand new cars to drive around round in well as soon as they figure out how to work the pedals that is old folks home when rich people grow old and retire they generally move to Florida but when a multi-million dollar military aircraft reaches the end of its life it joins an exclusive retirement

community in Tucson Arizona established in 1946 the Davis monin Air Force Space or Boneyard houses over 4,000 abandoned airplanes worth a combined 30 4 billion its residents include hundreds of fighter jets like the 1964 f111 arvar and the 1958 F4 Phantom 2 but some of its VIP gu aren't left out in the open like the world's first stealth fighter the F-117 Nighthawk this plane was debuted in 1981 but some of its stealth technology is still top secret so when it was retired from service in 2008 several models were locked away in Davis Mon's where warehouses

far from the public eye some of the boneyards planes have been abandoned for decades but it barely rains in Arizona and the low humidity prevents the vehicles from rusting this lets the Air Force take parts from the perfectly preserved planes to reuse them and on one occasion they brought a long abandoned aircraft back into service wise guy is a B-52 strata Fortress bomber that was built in 1955 and flew in the Vietnam War it was retired to the Boneyard in 2008 but incredibly the old man was called back into service in 2019 to replace another

B-52 that was accidentally destroyed during a training exercise WGY was in great shape due to the conditions of Davis Monon and although the plane hasn't been used in battle it's currently on standby ready to join the fight over 70 years after it was built the thank all my grandpa did after retirement was play Golf the Woodpecker if you want to find some sweet aband in technology it makes sense to head to one of the most famously abandoned places on Earth chernobyl's nuclear power plant exploded in April 1986 releasing huge amounts of radiation and creating a

1,000 square mile exclusion Zone around the plant that's been abandoned ever since the area still contains pockets of deadly radiation and it's illegal to go there without a guide but Brave explorers regularly sneak in to visit an unbelievable piece of abandoned technology called dugga this huge metal wall is a gigantic radar station that was built by the Soviet Union in 1972 it stands 492 ft high and 2300 ft long which is taller than the Great Pyramid in Egypt and almost as long as Dubai's B Khalifa it was built while the USSR was involved in the

Cold War against the USA as an early warning system against incoming missiles the radar could detect missiles was up to, 1600 M away so it required a huge amount of energy to run and conspiracy theorists have speculated that one of the main reasons the Chernobyl plant was built in 1977 was to provide it with more power other conspiracy theories surround the station and when Dugo was activated in 1976 it was so powerful that radio operators worldwide could hear the repetitive pulsing noise its signals made so people in the west called it the Russian woodpacker and

theorized it was an experimental Soviet mind control device unfortunately the missile detecting radar was abandoned when the Chernobyl plan exploded and it's fallen into decay in the year since so even if the station really was a secret mind control machine it doesn't work anymore Victory to the Glorious Soviet Union comrades sorry I I don't know what came over me Le even on a jet train before the Soviet Union fell in 1991 they developed lots of experimental projects that were too complicated expensive or downright insane to work so the woods hangers and scrapyards in modern day

Russia are full of incredible half-finished inventions like the high-speed laboratory rail car or svl see in 1966 the USA began testing an experimental jet power train called the M4 97 black beetle that could reach speeds of 183 mph the Soviets wanted to keep pace so in 1970 they took a carriage from a regular er22 train and bolted two Yak 40 gen engines to the roof the result was the svl and the Franken train successfully achieved speeds of 124 mph the fact the svl didn't immediately explode was impressive but there were some serious problems with its

design firstly jet engines are deafeningly loud so it couldn't be used in residential areas furthermore jet fuel is very expensive so it would be impossible to create a rail network with multiple svls due to the fuel cost alone as a result the Soviet government canceled the project in 1975 and the only prototype was consigned to a scrapyard in St Petersburg the vehicle rusted away for decades while the Soviet Union collapsed all around it however the svl didn't die for good because in 20 08 it was rescued and turned into a monument that currently sits outside

the T Carriage Works train Factory the svl got a fresh look of paint and a plaque commemorating its story which is a pretty nice ending for a pretty awesome vehicle and hopefully it'll Inspire someone else to make a jet train my commute takes forever grand left Auto for most of us the thought of owning a sports car like a Lamborghini or Bugatti feels like a total pipe dream but according to the internet the ultr rich frequently abandoned their luxury vehicles in the wilderness allowing anybody to come and take them for free back in 2011 an

image was posted of a Lamborghini Diablo rusting away in a goat field in an undisclosed location the Diablo was produced from 1990 to 2001 and these vintage cars are now worth up to $300,000 so this was an amazing find however according to car enthusiasts on Reddit the vehicle's opaque blue window suggest it actually a kit car which is a cheaper car that's stripped down to its chassis and covered with a fiberglass shell to make it look like a sports car you occasionally have to cut the windows out of a kit car shell yourself but the

owner of this one didn't bother proving that the Diablo is likely a fake but this Lamborghini isn't the only superar Discovery that's turned out to be a hoax in 2022 images started to circulate online that showed a $2.69 million Bugatti Chiron that had been abandoned in the wood was however it turned out to be a 3D render by a designer called Fabian overhammer who was imagining what supercars would look like in the post-apocalypse so despite what the internet says the world isn't really full of supercars lying in fields woods and ditches ready for you to

take in fact if you really want to find an abandoned luxury car you'll probably have to head to Dubai see lots of foreign expats move to Dubai and take out loans to buy expensive vehicles but in the UAE you can go to jail for defaulting on a loan so if a driver runs into financial trouble and can't afford to pay off their car they'll often avoid arrest by abandoning the vehicle and fleeing the country more than 2,000 cars are abandoned in the city every year and they include luxury Vehicles like this $1 million Ferrari Enzo

that ended up running in a police impound for years but the UAE isn't the only Middle Eastern country with abandoned vehicles this Ferrari F40 once belonged to UD Hussein the son of ir roa's deceased former dictator Saddam Hussein UD day met a violent end at the hands of US troops during the Iraq War in 2003 and the car has been abandoned their sense but I wouldn't recommend trying to steal it because in 2020 ud's sister put out a message on Twitter saying there would be consequences if anyone tried to take it messing with Saddam Hussein's

family seems pretty foolish and the Dubai PD's Impound Lot looks well guarded so instead of stealing those abandoned Ferraris let's try something a bit more achievable doubt anyone would mind if you stole this old Ford Falcon in muckleford South Australia but good luck getting it down from that tree the landowner Eddie Ford put it up there with a crane in 1985 as a publicity stunt to help promote a book he wrote and it's been abandoned there ever since but the Ford isn't the only vehicle that's been found in the tree at first glance the trunk

and the trunk of this VW Beetle looks like a crude Photoshop but some online SLO have found that this model is from the late 196 seas in in good conditions it's possible for a tree to grow this large over the course of 60 years so this tree really could have grown straight through the back of the junk VW giving it a unique wooden interior and making it totally undrivable man none of these abandoned cars are worth stealing guess I'll have to buy one instead car Forest finding a broken down car in the middle of the

desert doesn't sound particularly unusual but if you had to go peld Nevada and Venture into their great Bas in desert you'll come across a whole fleet of cars that have been abandoned in a very strange [Music] formation at first glance this looks like the aftermath of the most epic car chase in history or an automotive rainstorm but this scene is actually an art installation by Chad sorg and Mark Rippy called the international car Forest of the last Church the display was built back in 2011 and it's made up of over 40 junkyard cars that have

been meticulously stacked on top of each other and buried nose first in the ground the piece set an incredibly specific world record for the most upturn cars in an art piece and the artist hop that the forest would act as a blank canvas for visiting graffiti artists today it's fair to say they achieve their goals as the forest has become a popular tourist attraction and each abandoned vehicle is covered in completely unique artwork from artists around the world who knew abandoned vehicles could make dreams come true movie mobiles in the comics and movies the Batmobile

is a souped up tank that the cape Crusader uses to chase criminals but it looks like Bruce Wayne has fallen on hard times because he's had to abandon his treasured car instead of leaving in a ditch outside Gotham it's been discarded in a parking lot in Dubai's alqua District where it's sat since 2015 but Batman isn't real and this vehicle is really a drivable prop that was used during the production of The Dark Knight That Was Then shipped to Dubai to promote the movie's release in 2008 afterwards the car was obtained by a private owner

who put it up for sale for $1 million in 2015 but surprisingly nobody bought it and the vehicle has sat Gathering dust in a parking lot ever since so if you get mugged by a criminal in Dubai the bad signal won't help you but if you want to figure out who's robbed you I know some people who specialize in solving Mysteries ah never mind it looks like scooping the gang are done solving crime as they've abandoned the Mystery Machine beside a warehouse in Blain Washington the van was discovered rusting away in 2018 and at first

nobody was sure where it came from but some SLO on Reddit figured out that this mystery machine wasn't used in a sco dooo movie and it's actually from the 2001 movie Jay and Silent Bobs Strike Back the movie features an R-rated parody of the medling kids who drive around in this rusty old B and sometime after the film RP the vehicle was abandoned in Blain see storing cars can be expensive so Hollywood Studios will often just abandon the vehicles they use in a movie once they're finished filming that's why the iconic van was left in

Washington and in kuber py Australia you can find a straight up spaceship rusting away in an ordinary parking lot the vehicle is a Remnant from the Vin Diesel movie Pitch Black that was filmed in the area in 2000 in the movie the spaceship crashes onto an alien planet before being abandoned by Van's character and in this case art imitates reality because when the movie wrapped filming the prop was left in Australia and now that ship is a permanent fixture on Earth well those vehicles are pretty Rusty so I'm going to wrap this up and go

get a tnis shot which of the these pieces of abandoned technology and vehicles would you most like to see back in Action let me know in the comments and thanks for watching [Music]