According to Anthony Taylor, there was a surge in visitors when a YouTube video showing vintage automobiles thrown into a Gwynedd quarry received more than six million views.
Since then, hundreds of images of the “car grave” have surfaced on Instagram.
But the photographers also left behind graffiti and trash.
When the mine closed, televisions and old vehicles were dumped into one of the two main chambers above a lake, creating the strange sight of a rusting scrap metal heap lit by shafts of sunlight at certain times of the day.
It’s a strange place, among the strangest in the world, for sure. He recalled from 2022, when he had first visited.
How frequently do you see hundreds of cars parked underground with the sun’s rays shining on them?
