This abandoned sanatorium has come to be known as 'Overlook sanatorium'.
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Majesticly sitting up on a mountain side overlooking a fjord, it's hard not to think about the 'Overlook hotel' from the movie 'The Shining'.
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It was built in 1902 to aid people with tuberculosis.
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There's a cable car for easy access up the mountainside.
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The cable car control room.
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Looking at some maintanance documents it looks like it was maintained up until the late 1990s.
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I doubt it will ever run again.
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Apparently there have been plans to refurbish the building for usage within the tourist industry.
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I could see traces of work in progress...
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But it looks like no one has worked here for quite some time.
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They may have given up, it does look like a lot of work to restore the exterior.
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But who knows, maybe one day it will be restored to it's former glory.
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The interior is mostly in fairly good shape.
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Stairs down to the lower floors.
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Just as eerie and silent as the other floors.
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Some rooms are more trashed than others.
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There's a few wheelchairs scattered about...
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of different models, age and state.
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All decommissioned, just as the building itself...
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And the walking aids too.
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"Redrum... Redrum..." Well, a red room at least.
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A spooky door at the basement level...
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leads to a spooky corridor...
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that leads to the spooky boiler room...
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and past a spooky dentist chair...
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Back to the spooky corridor again.
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The kitchen.
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The big pots are still nice and shiney.
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Unlike the exterior.
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Although I like exploring abandonded places I do think it's a shame that this magestic building has been left to decay like this. It's probably the only one to date that I would really enjoy seeing restored to it's former glory.
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