Nature Is Reclaiming This One Abandoned Missouri Spot And It’s Actually Amazing

In 2000, Bob Cassilly purchased the 55-acre site where a cement plant once operated. He had a vision to create a unique amusement park with ramps, bridges and tunnels where even adults could play like kids. He called it Cementland, and he spent the following 11 years working to turn his visionary idea into reality.

Sadly, Mr. Cassilly was killed in an accident on the property in 2011. The site has been abandoned ever since. Nature is reclaiming the area. Metal has rusted, standing water pools on the grounds and weeds are growing up through the broken, cracked cement. Check out these photos taken and posted on Flickr by Paul Sableman.

Cementland would have been a vast playground.

Weeds and underbrush grow up and around much of Cementland now.

Vines are starting to cover this wall, climbing their way up to the cement tanks.

Underbrush will soon cover the cement steps here.

It’s illegal - and dangerous to trespass at Cementland. Vandals and kids hop the fence anyway and do further damage to the property.

Vandals have tagged many spots in the park.

Thieves have broken in and stolen anything valuable.

The pond that Bob Casilly created is still there, though grass and weeds are starting to take over.

Cementland is starting to decay.

Much of Cementland has turned to rust.

Because the project was never finished and much of the metal is rusted, it’s dangerous to climb around on the structures at Cementland. A security company watches over the property to oust trespassers.

This property once had so much potential as a place where adults could be kids again. Now that nature is taking over, it's haunting and beautiful in its own way.

It’s too bad that Bob Cassilly didn’t live to complete his visionary project. What do you think should happen to Cementland now?