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This is a thread I've wanted to do for a while, and was finally spurred into action by Dumarest's "Here's Your Megadungeon" thread. I've been collecting strange, bizarre, and beautiful real world locations as inspirations for settings and setting elements in my games.
I'll start with the deserted grounds of Virginia's Renfaire, abandoned to the elements...
From 1996 to 1999, these grounds just outside of Fredericksberg, Virginia, were home to the largest and most successful Renaissance festival in the country.
However, constant fights with weather and the elements (it was essentially built on swampland), and mounting debts (3 million dollars worth of swampland apparently), led to it being abandoned with the turn of the millennium and it's stood as an anachronistic ghost town ever since.
I'll start with the deserted grounds of Virginia's Renfaire, abandoned to the elements...
From 1996 to 1999, these grounds just outside of Fredericksberg, Virginia, were home to the largest and most successful Renaissance festival in the country.
However, constant fights with weather and the elements (it was essentially built on swampland), and mounting debts (3 million dollars worth of swampland apparently), led to it being abandoned with the turn of the millennium and it's stood as an anachronistic ghost town ever since.
That's where the bedamned hobbit started dropping pebbles to amuse himself and summoned the goblins, right?
