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It is sometimes said that in the eternal confrontation between man and nature, there is no winner. However, once there is a crack in a building, or a broken car stays unattended for a certain amount of time, we’ve all seen how vegetation immediately starts to seize control of it. Nature reasserts its grip.

Take a walk through the abandoned tunnels, ships, mansions and 20 other objects, which, though they were created by man, soon became part of the natural landscape. These are some thought-provoking images.

A tree in a piano, California. nature can defeat civilization
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Image by Romain JL
Image by Romain JL
Image by messynessychic
Image by messynessychic
Image by Ethan Welty
Image by Ethan Welty
Image by Jesse Rockwell
Image by Jesse Rockwell
Image by Jason Wallace
Image by Jason Wallace
Image by Kyle Telechan
Image by Kyle Telechan
Image by Rosanne de Lange
Image by Rosanne de Lange
Image by Marsel Van Oosten
Image by Marsel Van Oosten
Image by Pierre Folk
Image by Pierre Folk
Image by AndyBrii
Image by AndyBrii
Image by worldbeyondyourown
Image by worldbeyondyourown
Image by Wei-Feng Xue
Image by Wei-Feng Xue
Image by castlemaineindependent
Image by castlemaineindependent
Image by Sam Abell
Image by Sam Abell
Image by Ilya Varlamov
Image by Ilya Varlamov
Image by brokenview
Image by brokenview
Image Pietro Bevilacqua
Image Pietro Bevilacqua
Image by Brad Grove
Image by Brad Grove
A room in an abandoned hotel.
Image by Matthias Haker
Image by englishrussia
Image by englishrussia

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