The cars parked there are virtually identical to those in the Facebook image, and they have the same green and white logos on the driver's door. The Instagram pictures are consistent with pictures of a lot on the outskirts of Hangzhou, China. Videos posted to the "story highlights" on his profile indicate was in that same car lot around that time.įact check: Gun law change hasn't affected West Virginia crime rates He doesn't share the exact location of the places he photographs because he wants to protect them, he told USA TODAY. He confirmed to USA TODAY the image was taken in China on May 3. The self-described "urban explorer" travels around the world photographing abandoned places, he said in an interview in March. His Instagram username, appears on the image circulating online, on the roof of the car in the bottom right corner. As of July 13, the image had received 8,500 likes. The earliest version of the image USA TODAY found was posted on Instagram on June 19 by user Greg Abandoned, who has more than 95,000 followers.
USA TODAY reached out to the user who posted the image on Facebook for comment.
The image is actually from China and was taken by a Polish photographer who later posted it to his Instagram account. The image has also gained traction on other social media platforms, including Twitter and Reddit, where users claimed the cars are in Paris.īut that's not right. Independent fact-checking organizations addressed similar images posted on Facebook in May, which claimed the existence of other car "boneyards" in France.
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