Dirt Fishing - Metal Detecting & Abandoned Places

Abandoned ships have been a fascination of mine since I was just a young boy, probably due in part to my love of the film The Goonies .   As a kid, I would play in the forest of Vermont hunting for non-existent treasure and dreaming of underground layers and abandoned places.  Sure, I could just go to the mall and enjoy modern life, live in the now, but that just doesn't satisfy my sense of adventure.   As we get older we start to lose our youth one piece at a time.  For some the hair goes first, others lose their mind, some just their car keys, but me, what I'm most afraid of losing is my sense of adventure. Growing up in New England I remember standing in awe as the tall ships would pass through the mist along the rocky shores of the northern Atlantic.  What must it be like to discover a new place for the first time, leaving your loved ones behind and risking it all for the adventure of a lifetime? 

Check out this abandoned mansion in Virginia.  Everything is so still and quiet, only the sound of footsteps and birds chirping.  I wonder who lived here, why was this amazing home abandoned?  I would certainly like to live here, and it doesn't even look in that bad of shape either.  Perhaps it is haunted , or there was a murder.  It must have looked amazing during its prime, spotless inside beautifully tended gardens outside.  Now it stands ominously atop the hill, keeping its secrets silenced.

Abandoned Places I recently discovered this abandoned building while searching for a place to metal detect in Germany.  The sign on the outside had a date of 1816, presumably the year it was built.