Scary abandoned places in the world. Spooky places of abandoned cities and houses in the world
In our wonderful world every traveler will find something to see. Lovers of beauty simply have to take a look at beautiful abandoned places, and connoisseurs of thrill discover scary sights that stir up blood. We offer to go with us to, among which there are both beautiful and scary. They are legendary, horror or beautiful scenes are filmed here. And one thing that pleases me is that there are many such places, and they are all unique.
Many of us sincerely believe that elements of horror can only be seen on TV screen, well, as a last resort, at Halloween celebrations. However, there are many places in the world that, at the sight alone, are blood-curdling. It is impossible to remain indifferent to them: either you are afraid of them, or visiting such a place becomes the main goal of life. If you're a thrill-seeker, sit back and join us on an eerie journey called The Scariest.
California - Winchester House
This huge house located in San Jose, consists of 40 stairs, 160 rooms and a mystery shrouded in darkness.
The inhabitants of the estate were strange to say the least: a crazy widow lived here with a family of ghosts.
The history of this mansion began from the moment when the owner Sarah Winchester lost her beloved rich husband, inheriting a multimillion-dollar fortune. After her death, the spirit of her deceased husband appeared to her and told a terrible secret about how he earned money.
According to him, he built all his wealth on human bones, so their entire family is cursed, and the ghosts will avenge them to death. A fortune-teller added fuel to the fire, who told Sarah that she would see the spirits of every person killed from Winchesters bought from her husband's arms company.
But in all this hell there was a thin straw of salvation - Sarah had to make peace and try to make friends with the ghosts. To do this, it was necessary to start building a house and not stop, because if the hammering dies down, Sarah will die. So the construction of the house began, which was not supposed to end throughout the widow's life.
First, the poor woman bought an old mansion in California and hired workers. The house grew like mushrooms after rain. According to Miss Winchester's plan, secret passages, corridors, balconies began to appear in it. The stairs tended to lead nowhere to confuse the ghosts that haunted Sarah, whom she feared to death. The construction of the mansion did not stop for more than a day, but this madness lasted for 38 long years!
Today this abandoned place is open for tourists, but you can enter here provided that you do not leave the group, otherwise you will simply get lost in the eerie labyrinths. They say ghosts are still waiting for their victims.
Poisonous Danakil Desert
Ethiopian Danakil Desert. If you go there, it will be the scariest trip of your life! There is no such landscape anywhere else, probably not even in the real hell.
Once here once, you hardly want to fly to Mars, because here it feels like in space. You just feel a catastrophic lack of oxygen, it becomes hard to breathe, but fetid burning gases are abundant here, which are born underfoot in the volcanic surface with floating stones.
By traveling here, tourists literally shorten their lives. The heat is + 50 degrees, the danger of stepping on an awakening volcano and boiling in its red lava, breathing in sulfur vapors for life and making it short - all these risks are present here. Moreover, the semi-savage tribes of the Afar region, who, as a rule, are armed and hungry, often lie in wait for tourists in the struggle for water and food. They can be an unpleasant addition to the unearthly beauty of the Danakil Desert.
Suicide forest
Danakil Desert is an eerie, abandoned place, and there is no such thing in the world. It is located at the foot of Mount Fuji, which is considered sacred.
This gloomy place differs from the forest we are accustomed to in that they do not come here for mushrooms, berries, they do not fry kebabs here and do not relax with their family, but come to say goodbye to life. For these purposes, he was chosen by authentic Japanese suicides.
They began to go to the forest forever from the beginning of 1950. Less than half a century later, the number of those who died in the forest reached 500 people who voluntarily said goodbye to life. Rumor has it that the fashion for death in the forest came to the broad masses after the publication of the book "Black Sea of Trees" by the author Seiko Matsumoto, according to the plot of which two volunteers went to this forest in order to hang themselves. They walked holding hands ...
The forest is so shady and gloomy that even on a sunny day it is easy to find a scary corner, wrapped in a grave twilight, to do your dirty deed. In addition to skulls, corpses and bones, here you can find shields like "Think of your family!" or "Think for the last time!"
The problem of suicide in the forest became widespread in 1970. Since then, the government has sent units there every year to clear the forest from the "fresh" dead.
Aokigahara forest area 35 sq. m. For about a year, 50-100 corpses "ripen" on the trees, depending on how "fruitful" the year was.
The bridge is the killer of four-legged
The killer arch bridge is located near the Scottish village of Milton, more precisely, it is located near the Overtown mansion, which has become a haven for ghosts.
On this bridge, mystical events take place, and they were often associated with a gloomy house, however, as it turned out later, the point is not in the mansion, but in the bridge itself. Strange events began to take place on it in the middle of the twentieth century. Dozens of dogs rushed from a fifteen-meter height and crashed to death, the survivors still tried to jump off the bridge.
Even veterinarians and zoologists could not figure out what led them to such actions, but the most interesting thing is that everyone jumped from the same parapet.
During this time, many hypotheses have been put forward. It was said that perhaps the dogs were driven by a hunting instinct, and they rushed to the rats and minks living below. Others suspect that the bridge is located on the border of two worlds: the living and the dead, and the dogs smell the paranormal, follow the trail, and pay for their curiosity with death. Perhaps you know the secret of the Overtone Bridge?
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Beautiful abandoned places
In addition to the creepy places that excite our consciousness, there are also beautiful abandoned places in the world, from which it is difficult to look away. Despite their beauty, they evoke a feeling of pity, as they are abandoned and seem to be of no use to anyone. But in reality this is not the case - hundreds of tourists come to see them.
Italy, San Fruttuoso: Christ from the Abyss
This is one of the most beautiful abandoned places under water. The bronze statue of Christ is so realistic that hundreds of people come to San Fruttuoso to look at it at least once in their lives.
But we must warn you right away that only those who love diving can see it, since the statue is located under water in an Italian bay. Duilio Marcante erected a bronze sculpture in honor of his friend who died at sea - the first scuba diver of Italy Dario Gonzatti. It was created by the talented sculptor Guido Galetti. The height of the masterpiece is 2.5 m, it is installed at a depth of 17 m, so it is not as easy to see it as it seems. But those who are lucky enough to look at the grandiose statue will not be able to forget its noble, blessing image.
Japan, Gulliver's Adventure Park
Gulliver's Adventure is another place that can be classified as the most beautiful abandoned places in the world. The theme park is located in Japan, in Kawaguchi, was created by the local government to revitalize the leisure of local residents.
But for some reason the project was not profitable and existed for only 4 years, after which it “successfully” went bankrupt. It has not been operating since 2001, but its main attraction is the 45-meter-long Gulliver sculpture that attracts tourists not only from Japan, but also from other countries of the world.
There are guesses that the park was closed due to the fact that there was little entertainment here: besides the sculpture, there was only a steam locomotive and a few ordinary carousels, but how it really happened, no one knows.
Abandoned and beautiful
It is worth noting that there are many beautiful abandoned places in the world, where, however, many of these "pearls of the world" are open to the public. The list of the most mysterious abandoned places includes the following:
- Kolmanskop city (Namibia desert);
- Dome houses in Florida that people have long abandoned;
- 15th century monastery in Germany (in the Black Fortress);
- Bodiam Castle (England);
- Keelung Dead City (Taiwan);
- Tunnel of love (Ukraine).
The scariest abandoned places
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Our world is full of such creepy and mysterious places. Old cemeteries, chapels, abandoned cities and hospitals.
Do you think this is only abroad? Russia is huge, and we have more such places than in any other country. Let's take a walk?
1. Devil's cemetery
The Devil's Cemetery is a round bare glade 250 m in diameter. It is located in the middle of the taiga, 100 km from the confluence of the Kova River into the Angara. It is noteworthy that there is no vegetation at all in the clearing, and the trees surrounding it are charred, as if a fire was raging here. According to one of the versions, it was here, and not in the Podkamennaya Tunguska area, that the Tunguska meteorite fell.
In the 20s and 30s of the last century, cattle often wandered into the clearing. And he died. The locals had to pull it out with hooks, because they themselves were afraid to enter the clearing. The meat of the fallen cattle was abnormally red in color. It is believed that people also died here - before the Great patriotic war several hundred people died near or on the clearing. It is not recommended to walk there. To put it mildly.
2. Meat pine forest
Myasnoy Bor, also known as Death Valley, is located in the Novgorod region. Finding this place is not so easy: now it is overgrown with forest, swampy, and only the remnants of a wartime railway lead to it.
At first glance, there is nothing creepy in Myasny Bor. But there is a story: during the Great Patriotic War, tens of thousands of soldiers, both Russians and Germans, died here. The remains have not yet been buried. They say that here you can find terrible wartime artifacts: bayonets, helmets, bones and skulls.
3. Building of the sanatorium "Energia"
The ruins of an abandoned sanatorium are located 15 km from the Moscow Ring Road. Previously, the sanatorium was considered almost a work of art: a park was laid out in the courtyard, sculptures were installed. The building itself was once a beautiful two-story building. And from the outside, it still looks like an ordinary building, unless a little renovation would have hurt.
Inside, the picture is different. There is rubbish everywhere, the windows are smashed. In the rooms - broken furniture, torn old books and photographs. Now the building is almost destroyed, and half of it burned down, and in this part even the walls are almost gone.
4.The village of Kadykchan in the Magadan region
Kadykchan (translated from the Evenk language "Valley of Death") was built in 1943. Coal was found in this place at a depth of 400 m the highest quality... Until 1996, several thousand people lived in the village. In Stalin's times, there was even one of the gulag camps here. And in 1996, an explosion occurred at the mine, and people began to leave.
By 2006, 791 people remained in the village. A couple of years later - only 400. They refused to leave, but in 2003 the authorities decided to close an unprofitable village and closed the only boiler house in the city. It became impossible to live in the city, and the Kadychkans left. The authorities did not consider it necessary to evacuate the residents.
Now Kadychkan is a ghost mining town. Books and furniture were left in the houses, broken benches and monuments on the streets.
5. Finval Bay, an abandoned naval submarine base
The bay is located in the city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky-54. The official name of the bay is "Bechevinskaya", but due to its secrecy it was renamed "Finval". Previously, submarines were stationed here: since 1971, the composition of the division has changed several times until it was decided to close the base in 1996. All property was taken out, electricity and water supply were cut off. Simultaneously with the base, the Shipunsky missile settlement was also closed.
We only stayed at home. Submarines were driven to another bay.
7. Abandoned naval training base on Russky Island
Military unit 25108 was disbanded in 2001. Russky Island long time had the status of a closed territory. In Soviet times, there were many military camps here - in fact, the island was the largest training base for the Soviet Navy.
In 1993, in parts Pacific Fleet four soldiers died of hunger, and another 250 sailors were hospitalized with a diagnosis of dystrophy. The main military prosecutor's office opened a criminal case, the investigation continued until 1998. Only the senior midshipman Vytrishchak was punished, in whose house they found food stolen from the warehouse. The rest of the persons involved got off with fines. Now the part is disbanded and abandoned, and inside the buildings are the remains of furniture and soldiers' equipment. Some jokers sometimes "decorate" the buildings additionally - they hang a raincoat so that from the side it seems that a person is dangling in a noose.
8. Sablinskie caves
The cave system originated from the mining of quartz sand from the 18th to the 20th century. In 1922, the mines closed and the caves were abandoned.
Sablinskie caves were a classified object until the end of the 1970s. Then, fugitive prisoners were hiding in the catacombs, and ten people disappeared in these places every year. This was due to the bandits, and quicksand, and collapsed corridors. But attempts to take the bandits entrenched in the caves were useless: the Sablinskie caves stretched for several kilometers, and it was impossible to look for someone in the natural labyrinths.
In the 1980s, the caves were home to 200 people living in communities. Now there are no active underground groups, and the eerie Sablinskie caves have turned into a tourist attraction. A tour of the safe part of the caves costs only 600 rubles. In unsafe tourists are not allowed.
9. Death Valley in Kamchatka
The Valley of Death in Kamchatka was discovered in 1975. Corpses of animals and birds are often found here. Animals die due to the high concentration of poisonous gases - hydrogen sulfide, carbon dioxide and carbon disulfide. The corpses of animals in this place are preserved for an unusually long time and do not decompose even in the open air - the poisonous atmosphere suppresses the oxidative processes caused by bacteria.
People shouldn't stay here too long. Scientists and tourists after Death Valley suffer from headaches, fever, dizziness and general weakness. But if you leave in time dangerous place, you will bounce back pretty quickly.
A walk through this natural “hell” is not for the faint of heart. There is a very great chance to stumble upon the corpses of unwary animals. People usually have time to leave.
10.Khovrinskaya hospital in Moscow
The construction of the Khovrinskaya hospital began in 1980 on the site of the cemetery. Construction stopped five years later, and the huge unfinished building was abandoned. Now the basements are flooded, and the building is slowly sinking into the ground.
The place is overgrown with numerous urban legends. Thrill-seekers come here - still, a kind of gateway to the other world right in the middle of Moscow!
11.Submarine shelter in Pavlovsk
The construction of the shelter began in the 1960s. Construction lasted for 20 years, but in the 1980s it died out, and the base was never finished. All concrete work was completed, only the interior decoration remained to be done. But in 1991, the United States and the USSR signed the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty, and the Pavlovsk submarine base in the Primorsky Territory was included in the list of facilities that the USSR pledged to close.
The hideout is creepy. Its central part consists of two parallel tunnels connected by passages. Both tunnels, so huge that a submarine can easily enter, are flooded with water. There are eight entrances to the shelter. It is difficult to estimate its true dimensions: many passages are flooded, and it is not known where they lead. Yes, one more thing: there are sources of radiation on the territory of the military unit and the background radiation is increased, so it is better not to walk here without a special suit.
Such is human nature, people are attracted and attracted to everything inexplicable, but tell me what is also dangerous there, so this is, in general, a challenge for thousands.
The most abandoned places in the world, by the way, more than with interest. They all have their own history and their own secrets.
Sometimes, looking at some of them, you involuntarily realize how miserable and weak humanity is in comparison with nature, which is capable of recovering and reviving, so that a person does not build and no matter how much effort he invests. If all this is not followed, nature will take over in the shortest possible time and revive its possessions, creating the most abandoned places in the world out of its former greatness.
San Ji - ghost town
So, it is worth considering some places that really terrify anyone who dares to visit there. What are the photos of abandoned houses, for example, one of these places is a completely free city in Taiwan, which is called San Ji.
It began to be erected several decades ago, but the construction work was never destined to be completed, already in the 1980s it was completely empty and became abandoned.
It was built for wealthy people on the sea coast, but during the construction strange things began to happen - workers began to die, and these cases became quite a mass phenomenon. Those who managed to survive were crippled by accidents, and no one will explain what happened there.
Some argue that during the Japanese occupation, a death camp was located there, perhaps the misfortunes that happened are somehow connected with the lack of peace of mind of those tortured in that very camp. However, no one is going to disassemble the city, the locals believe that in this way they will disturb the evil spirits. Some claim to have seen them in pictures of abandoned houses.
Dead hospital in Germany - a paradise for ghosts
The other most neglected place in the world and the most attractive is an empty hospital in Germany, in the city of Belitz. Once upon a time during the First World War, Adolf Hitler himself was treated here.
This hospital worked during the Second World War, it was finally abandoned in 1995. Since then, this place has been overgrown with many different legends with ghosts and other frightening creatures.
Abandoned factory in Makhachkala
The next place is the Dagdizel plant, located in Makhachkala (RF). This is a factory workshop, which is located in the Caspian Sea, almost three kilometers from the coast. It was abandoned in the middle of 1960 as the requirements for work in the workshop changed. Since then, this building has been empty and looks quite frightening after so many years.
4 creepy buildings of the Lier Sikehus psychiatric hospital
Mental hospitals have long been popular in horror films, but in fact, such places do exist. Having been there, it really becomes creepy. Not many people are ready to walk through such a hospital, especially alone, as, for example, through the abandoned 4 buildings of the Lier Sikehus psychiatric hospital, which are located in Norway.
Once upon a time, terrible experiments on patients were carried out in these buildings, and since the 80s they are no longer used, but the equipment, beds, clothes of patients - everything remained. The dilapidated and gloomy general appearance of the buildings is not fun for the faint of heart.
It is worth mentioning the notorious Pripyat, which is located in Ukraine. This is one of the abandoned cities in the world. Despite the high popularity among tourists from all over the world, this place is truly terrifying.
Especially psychologically, it is quite difficult to be there, since you can walk through entire streets without seeing anyone. Empty windows, lack of cars, rusty, dilapidated infrastructure - all this together in an abandoned city in the world can cause a feeling of fear, discomfort and a desire to leave these lands as soon as possible.
Fun park - scary park
Spreepark is located in Berlin, Germany. It was built at the end of 1960. Closed in 2001, after the fall of the Berlin Wall, more modern and attractive amusement parks began to be built, and Spreepark, in turn, began to fall apart, rust, and now looks quite frightening.
Old churches are a magnet for stories
The church in Saint-Etienne, which is located in France, looks mystically. It has been abandoned for a long time, bushes have even grown there, and everything that remained of the former church is dilapidated and cracked. In addition, it is quite dark there, the light comes only through small windows, the place is quite scary and this is perfectly evidenced by photos of abandoned houses.
All that remains after the hurricane ...
In New Orleans (USA) there is a small abandoned town in the form of an amusement park Six Flags Jazzland, which became abandoned after part of the park was destroyed by a hurricane.
However, the hurricane was not able to cope with all the attractions, some of them, in principle, are suitable for use even to this day. Now this park looks scary many years later - dilapidated, rusted, completely empty.
Hundreds of cars rest in peace
Belgium has a car cemetery (better known as the city of abandoned cars). It is located in the area long overgrown with all kinds of ragweed and shrubs.
The cars belonged to American soldiers who acquired them in Belgium after the end of WWII, but it seemed quite expensive to transport them to another continent, most of these cars were left there. Since then, a whole cemetery of rusted car frames can please the eye of extreme lovers.
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From grim North Korean hotels to abandoned subway stations, below are twenty-five of the creepiest abandoned places on Earth.
25. City Hall Station - New York
It was opened in 1904 and closed in 1945 because almost no one used it.
24. UFO Houses in Sanzhi (Sanzhi UFO Houses) - Sanzhi, Taiwan
The houses were built for American military officers in the 70s, and construction stopped in the 80s when funding for the project ran out.
23. Disney's Discovery Island - Lake Buena Vista, Florida
In the past, this place was a park wildlife Disney, it is rumored that it was shut down when deadly bacteria were found in the surrounding water.
22. Canfranc Rail Station, Spain
She was originally part of international route between France and Spain, an accident in the 70s destroyed the local bridge and severed rail links between the countries.
21. Hashima Island, Japan
This island was once a thriving residential city for over 5,000 miners. It was abandoned when gasoline replaced coal as the main source of fuel in Japan.
20. Orpheum Auditorium - New Bedford, Massachusetts
The theater was opened the day the Titanic sank. Today, part of the building has been turned into a supermarket, while the rest of it remains the same as it was over the past century.
19. Remains of the shipwreck of the ocean liner "America" (SS America) - Fuerteventura (Fuerteventura), Canary Islands
This American ocean liner crashed in 1994 after half a century of service.
18. Underwater City - Shicheng, China
Founded 1,300 years ago, the city has been under water for 53 years since the Xin'an River Hydro Plant flooded the area.
17. Wonderland Amusement Park - Beijing, China
This amusement park was supposed to be the largest of its kind in the Eastern Hemisphere, but financial turmoil prevented the completion of the project. Today, the land around the park is cultivated by farmers.
16. El Hotel del Salto - Colombia
The hotel was built in 1928 so that wealthy tourists could comfortably visit local waterfall however, the waterfall became polluted, eventually causing the remote hotel to be abandoned.
15. Eastern State Penitentiary - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
This facility housed people like Al Capone. It was one of the first modern prisons built at that time.
14. Dadipark - Dadizel, Belgium
This small playground opened in the 50s and closed right at the turn of the century.
13. Michigan Central Station - Detroit, Michigan 
Built in 1913, it was the tallest station in the world. Railway closed in the 1980s and renovation plans were unsuccessful.
12. Neglected sections of the Great Wall of china(Great Wall), China
Considering that the length of the Great Wall of China is 2,500 kilometers, it is rather difficult to maintain every part of the wall in proper condition, so some of its sections have fallen into disrepair.
11. Red Sands Sea Forts - Sealand, UK
Built off the coast of England during World War II to protect coastal areas, these fortresses are now abandoned.
10. Eilean Donan Castle - Loch Duich Fjord, Scotland
Located deep in the heart of Scotland, this island remained abandoned until 1911 when it was renovated by the locals. However, it again stands abandoned.
9. Castle of Miranda (Chateau Miranda) - Celles, Belgium
This castle being popular place among the ghostbusters, was built by people fleeing the French Revolution. After that, it was used as an orphanage during World War II, and then it was abandoned.
8. Aniva Rock Lighthouse - Sakhalin Region, Russia
Sometime in the past, both Japan and Russia fought for Cape Aniva, as well as for the whole of Sakhalin, but this moment the lighthouse located on the cape of the same name is abandoned and unoccupied.
7. Bannerman Castle - Pollepel island, New York
The castle was originally built by a wealthy aristocrat to store surplus ammunition after America's war with Spain, but the ammunition exploded and remains abandoned to this day.
6. Gulliver's Travels Park - Kawaguchi, Japan
This theme park was built right at the foot of Mount Fuji. It operated for only 10 years before it was closed. Its ruins remain in this place to this day.
5. Six Flags Jazzland - New Orleans, Louisiana
Despite the fact that the park was abandoned after Hurricane Katrina, some of its attractions can still be seen there.
4. Willard Asylum - Willard, New York
This hospital was built in 1869 and closed in 1995. Most of the hospital's patients died within its walls.
3. Pripyat, Ukraine
After the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, the city was abandoned due to radioactive fallout and is likely to remain abandoned for quite some time.
2. Mirny Diamond Mine - Eastern Siberia, Russia
This massive hole was dug under Stalin in order to mine diamonds. However, it turned out to be too difficult to continue production and production was eventually discontinued.
1. Ryugyong Hotel - Pyongyang, North Korea
A hotel that is testament to the madness of North Korea. Its construction began during the famine. Unsurprisingly, the building was never completed, although they eventually managed to cover it with glass to make it look more presentable.
Unusual abandoned places around the world
Man has learned to create architectural structures of stunning beauty, hundreds of times larger than himself. And there seems to be no limit to human imagination and human capabilities. The only pity is that nothing lasts forever, and even works of architectural art sooner or later, due to various circumstances, are abandoned by people and are given to nature to be torn apart. However, such abandoned places have their own charm, and even fascinate with their shabby, alienation, as if they are hiding some secret known only to them.
Today we have collected many similar places from all over the world, not forgetting to mention our beloved abandoned building, for the fate of which we are the whole city ...
Belitz, an abandoned Soviet hospital near Berlin. The city of the same name is located 40 kilometers from the capital of Germany. During the First and Second World War, the city-forming hospital was used by the military, and in 1916 Adolf Hitler was treated there. After World War II, the hospital found itself in the zone of Soviet occupation and became the largest Soviet hospital outside the Soviet Union.
The complex is an architectural monument of the Art Nouveau style and consists of 60 buildings, some of which have been restored.
USA, the last house on the Dutch island. This home was once part of a fairly successful island colony in the Chesapeake Bay in the States. However, due to the rapid erosion of the soil, less and less space was left on the island. The house in the photo was the last on the island, it collapsed in 2010.
In the twenties of the last century, a resort town appeared on the shores of the salt lake Lago Epecuen, located 600 kilometers southwest of Buenos Aires, in Argentina. It was named Villa Epecuen, and soon its own railway station was built here. The town was prosperous for several decades. In the 1970s, when the city reached the apogee of its development, its population was about five thousand people. Around the same period, due to a prolonged cyclone, much more precipitation than usual fell in this hilly area. Because of this, the water level in Lake Epequen has risen significantly. In 1985, the waters of the lake broke through an earthen dam, and Villa Epecuen was doomed to perish. A flurry of floods began to cover the town little by little, until the depth reached ten meters (33 feet) in 1993. The rains soon stopped and by 2009 the water began to recede.
For comparison: a photograph of one of the streets of Villa Epecuen in the 1970s and now, after twenty-five years spent under the lake water.
Belgium. It is part of the cooling tower of an abandoned power plant in Monceau. A funnel-shaped structure in the center supplied hot water, which was then cooled, flowing down hundreds of small concrete gutters.
Belgium. Cooling chamber.
Namibia, Kolmanskop ghost town. It is a small, abandoned settlement that thrived in the early 1900s. Then German settlers began mining here for diamonds. The inflow of funds ended after the First World War, when the diamond field began to deplete. By the 50s, people had completely left the city, and now only tourists and photographers come here.
Russia. Abandoned library. The books were not distributed to schools, sold for a pittance to orphanages and boarding schools, provincial houses of culture or vocational schools. They were left as they were - on shelves, in a building with a leaking roof, no heating, broken windows and an open door.
Australia. Floating forest in Sydney. This is the hull of the large steamer SS Ayrfield, which was decided to be dismantled in Homebush Bay after World War II. But when the shipyard closed, this ship, like several others, remained where they were left. Now it is a beautiful and mysterious floating forest, which serves as an example of the fact that nature can survive anytime, anywhere, even after human activity.
United Kingdom. Munsell Sea Forts. These forts were erected near the estuaries of the Thames and Mersey rivers to protect the country from potential German air threats during World War II. When they were decommissioned in 1950, several people lived here, including operators of pirate radio stations, as well as the principality of Sealand, a self-proclaimed independent state.
Gulliver Travels Park, Kawaguchi, Japan. Gulliver’s Kingdom, a Japanese theme park, was opened in the vicinity of Mount Fuji in 1997 with public funds, but only lasted four years.
The reason for its collapse was not only financial problems with investors and unpopularity with visitors, but also an initially "bad" place - nearby there is a plant that produced sarin for the notorious Aum Senrikyo sect, and most famous place pilgrimages of all the unfortunate - the forest of suicides.
House of the Bulgarian Communist Party. The former building of the house-monument, built in the 1980s in honor of the Bulgarian Communist Party, today looks eerie both from the outside and from the inside (like a failed regime). This UFO-like structure fell into disrepair after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Now it is just like a phantom of the former structure, although there are talks about starting work on restoration.
Abandoned resort in Croatia in the town of Kupari. The resort, built in the second half of the 20th century, was considered the most luxurious hotel complex throughout Yugoslavia. More than a billion dollars were invested in the construction from the country's military budget.
In 1991, when Croatia was waging a war of independence, the town of Kupari was captured by Serbian troops - after all the hotels were fired from missile frigates and boats, the largest amphibious assault force landed on the beach in front of the resort. The meaning of this operation remained a mystery, shrouded in darkness, but almost everything that was valuable here turned out to be looted. After the war, the resort was never rebuilt: the hotels lie in ruins, and only locals come to the local beach in the summer, which is still considered one of the best in the area.
USA. Deserted island in southeastern Florida. These small domed structures were built in 1981 at Cape Romano. They were the summer residence of oil tycoon Bob Lee, but then fell into disrepair. It is still unclear what fate awaits them.
Italy, Sorrento. Abandoned mill. This structure in the Valley of the Mills was abandoned in 1866. Wheat was once milled here, and there was a sawmill nearby. The mill was isolated from the sea following the construction of Piazzo Tasso, which increased humidity in the region and had to abandon the mill.
USA, Detroit. Central station Michigan. The station was built in 1913 to create a new one transport node... However, several construction errors resulted in it being closed in 1988.
The fate of Michigan Station has not yet been decided, but it has appeared in several films.
Yacht sunken in Antarctica. This eerie ghost ship was the Brazilian yacht “Mar Sem Fim” that sank near Ardley Cove. On the yacht, the Brazilian film crew decided to shoot a documentary, but due to strong winds and a storm, the water flooded the ship and it sank.
USA. Old abandoned theater New Bedford in Massachusetts. It was opened in 1912 and closed in 1959. Since then, he managed to visit a supermarket and even a tobacco store. Now a non-profit organization is trying to raise funds to renovate this building.
Abkhazia, an abandoned railway station. This railway station in Sukhumi was abandoned during the Abkhaz war in 1992 and 1993. As a result, the region was deserted, but the station still retains traces of its former grandeur - for example, delightful stucco moldings.
Russia. Abandoned wooden houses.
These and similar exquisitely decorated towers are located in the Russian provinces. Some of them are surrounded by forests.
Perhaps due to their remoteness, these towers remained intact.
East China. The underwater city in Shichen. This incredible underwater city, lost in time, is already 1341 years old! Shichen, or Lion City, is located in Zhejiang Province. It was flooded in 1959 during the construction of a hydroelectric power station. The water protects the city from wind and rain erosion, so it remains in relatively good condition.
USA. Abandoned subway station in New York. This lovely station is right below the city hall. That is why much attention was paid to its design, however, due to the neighboring stations, this one never received proper attention from the public, and its curved route was considered not safe enough. The station was closed in 1945, and it still remains so, except for a few exclusive tours for curious visitors.
Columbia, hotel Salto. Opened in 1928 next to Tequendama Falls to serve tourists who came to admire the 157-meter waterfall. The hotel was closed in the early 90s after interest in the waterfall faded away. But in 2012, this place was turned into a museum.
Ukraine. Abandoned subway tunnel. This photo was taken in the metro near Kiev. Many tunnels are partially flooded, and stalactites hang from the ceilings.
Ukraine, Balaklava. Abandoned submarine base. Although not completely abandoned, it is still impressive. Until it closed in 1993, it was one of the most secret bases on the territory of the USSR, and today it is just a museum.
Japan, Hashima Island (Japanese “border island”). This island has many names, including "Warship" (due to its shape) and "Ghost Island". It was previously inhabited and served as a base for workers in underwater coal mines.
As Japan gradually switched from coal to gasoline, the mines (and buildings that sprang up around them) closed, leaving behind a ghost island.
Taiwan, Sanzhi. Houses are like UFOs. These flying saucer-like structures (60 pieces) were originally supposed to be holiday lodges - in particular, for American military officers serving in Asia. However, due to low investment levels, the site had to close in 1980 shortly after it was built. Sadly, these amazing buildings were demolished in 2010.