Famous abandoned places. Gulliver's Travels Park, Kawagushi, Japan. Michigan Central Station in Detroit, USA
From grim North Korean hotels to abandoned subway stations, here are 25 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. Sanzhi UFO Houses - Sanzhi, Taiwan
The houses were built for US military officers in the 70s, construction stopped in the 80s when the 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, rumor has it that it was closed when deadly bacteria were found in the water surrounding it.
22. Railroad station in Canfranc (Canfranc Rail Station), Spain
She was originally part of international route between France and Spain, an accident in the 70s destroyed a 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 Japan's main fuel source.
20. Orpheum Auditorium - New Bedford, Massachusetts
The theater was opened the day the Titanic sank. To date, part of the building has been converted into a supermarket, while the rest of it remains the same as it has been for the past century.
19. Remains of the shipwreck of the ocean liner "America" (SS America) - Fuerteventura, Canary Islands
This American ocean liner crashed in 1994 after half a century of service.
18. Underwater City - Shicheng, China
The city, founded 1300 years ago, 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 troubles prevented the completion of the project. Today, the lands around the park are cultivated by farmers.
16. El Hotel del Salto (El Hotel del Salto) - Colombia
The hotel was built in 1928 to allow wealthy tourists to visit the local waterfall in comfort, but the waterfall became polluted, eventually leading to the remote hotel being abandoned.
15. Penitentiary Eastern states(Eastern State Penitentiary) - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
This facility held 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 highest station in the world. The railroad closed in the 1980s and plans for renovations failed.
12. Abandoned sections of the Great Chinese wall(Great Wall), China
Given that the length of the Great Wall of China is 2,500 kilometers, it is quite difficult to maintain each part of the wall in proper condition, so some sections of it fell into disrepair.
11. Red Sands Sea Forts - Sealand, UK
These fortresses, built off the coast of England during World War II to protect coastal areas are currently abandoned.
10. Eilean Donan Castle - Loch Duich Fjord, Scotland
This island, deep in the heart of Scotland, remained abandoned until 1911, when it was refurbished. locals. However, it again stands abandoned.
9. Chateau Miranda - Celles, Belgium
This castle, which is popular place among ghost hunters, was built by people fleeing the French Revolution. After that, it was used as an orphanage during World War II and then abandoned.
8. Aniva Rock Lighthouse - Sakhalin region, Russia
Once in the past, both Japan and Russia fought for Cape Aniva, as well as for the whole of Sakhalin, but on this moment the lighthouse, located on the cape of the same name, is abandoned and not inhabited by anyone.
7. Bannerman Castle - Pollepel island, New York
The castle was originally built by a wealthy aristocrat to store surplus ammunition after the American-Spanish war, but the ammunition exploded and the site remains abandoned to this day.
6. Gulliver’s Travels Park - Kawaguchi, Japan
This theme park was built right at the foot of Mount Fuji (Fuji). It functioned for only 10 years before it was closed. Its ruins remain on this site until today.
5. Jazzland by Six Flags Jazzland - New Orleans, Louisiana
Although the park was abandoned after Hurricane Katrina, some of its attractions can still be seen there.
4. Willard Asylum Psychiatric Hospital - Willard, New York
This hospital was built in 1869 and closed in 1995. Most of the hospital patients died within its walls.
3. Pripyat, Ukraine
After the accident at Chernobyl nuclear power plant the city was abandoned due to fallout and will likely remain abandoned for quite some time.
2. Kimberlite pipe "Mir" (Mirny Diamond Mine) - Eastern Siberia, Russia
This massive hole was dug under Stalin in order to mine diamonds. However, it proved too difficult to continue mining and production was eventually abandoned.
1. Ryugyong Hotel - Pyongyang, North Korea
A hotel that is a testament to madness North Korea. Its construction began during the famine. Not surprisingly, the building was never completed, although they eventually managed to cover it with glass to make it look more presentable.
so creepy and mysterious places our world is full. Old cemeteries, chapels, abandoned cities and hospitals.
Do you think this only exists abroad? Russia is huge, and we have more such places than in any other country. Shall we take a walk?
1. Damn graveyard
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 version, it was here, and not in the area of Podkamennaya Tunguska, that the Tunguska meteorite fell.
In the 20s and 30s of the last century, cattle often wandered into the clearing. And he died. Local residents had to pull it out with hooks, because they were afraid to enter the clearing themselves. The meat of the fallen cattle was abnormally red. It is believed that people also died here - before the Great Patriotic War, several hundred people died near the meadow or on it. Walking there is not recommended. To put it mildly.
2. Myasnoy Bor
Myasnoy Bor, aka Death Valley, is located in Novgorod region. Finding this place is not so easy: now it is overgrown with forest, swamped, and only the remains of railway wartime.
At first glance, there is nothing terrible in Myasnoy Bor. But there is a story: during the Great Patriotic War, tens of thousands of soldiers, both Russians and Germans, died here. The remains are still not buried. They say that here you can find terrible wartime artifacts: bayonets, helmets, bones and skulls.
3. Building of the sanatorium "Energy"
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, except that a little renovation would not hurt.
Inside, the picture is different. Rubbish is everywhere, 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 as "Valley of Death") was built in 1943. In this place, at a depth of 400 m, coal of the highest quality was found. 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, there was an explosion 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 back in 2003 the authorities decided to close the unprofitable village and closed the only boiler house in the city. It became impossible to live in the city, and the Kadychkans dispersed. The authorities did not consider it necessary to evacuate the residents.
Now Kadychkan is a mining ghost town. Books and furniture remained in the houses, broken benches and monuments on the streets.
5. Bay "Finval", an abandoned submarine base of the Navy
The bay is located in the city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky-54. Official name bay - "Bechevinskaya", but because of secrecy it was renamed "Finval". Previously, submarines were stationed here: since 1971, the composition of the division has changed several times, until in 1996 it was decided to close the base. All property was removed, electricity and water supply was turned off. Simultaneously with the base, the Shipunsky missile settlement was also closed.
The only ones left were at home. Submarines were transferred to another bay.
7. Abandoned naval training base on Russky Island
Military unit 25108 was disbanded in 2001. Russky Island had the status of a closed territory for a long time. In Soviet times, there were many military camps here - in fact, the island was the largest training base of the Soviet Navy.
In 1993, four soldiers died of starvation in parts of the Pacific Fleet, and another 250 sailors were hospitalized with a diagnosis of dystrophy. The main military prosecutor's office opened a criminal case, the investigation was conducted until 1998. They punished only the senior midshipman Vytrishchak, in whose house they found food stolen from the warehouse. The rest of the people involved got off with fines. Now the unit has been disbanded and abandoned, and inside the buildings are the remains of furniture and soldier's equipment. Some pranksters sometimes "decorate" the hulls additionally - they hang raincoats so that from the side it seems that a person is hanging in a noose.
8. Sablinsky caves
The cave system originated from the extraction of quartz sand from the 18th to the 20th century. In 1922, the mines closed and the caves were abandoned.
The Sablinsky caves were a classified object until the end of the 1970s. Then runaway prisoners hid in the catacombs, and every year ten people disappeared in these places. The bandits were to blame, and quicksand, and collapsed corridors. But attempts to take the bandits who had settled in the caves were useless: the Sablinsky 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 who lived in communities. Now there are no more active underground groups, and the terrible Sablinsky caves have turned into tourist attraction. A tour of the safe part of the caves costs only 600 rubles. Tourists are not allowed into the unsafe area.
9. Death Valley in Kamchatka
Death Valley in Kamchatka was discovered in 1975. The 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'll be back to normal pretty quickly.
Walking through this natural "hell" is not for the faint of heart. There is a very high chance of stumbling upon the corpses of careless animals. People usually have time to leave.
10.Khovrinskaya hospital in Moscow
Khovrinsky hospital began to be built in 1980 on the site of a cemetery. Five years later, construction stopped, and the huge unfinished building was abandoned. Now the basements are flooded, and the building is slowly sinking underground.
The place has acquired numerous urban legends. Here come the lovers thrill- still, a sort of gate to the other world right in the middle of Moscow!
11.Shelter for submarines in Pavlovsk
The shelter began to be built in the 1960s. The construction was carried out for 20 years, but in the 1980s it stalled, and the base was never completed. All concrete work was completed, it only remained to do interior decoration. But in 1991, the US and the USSR signed the Treaty on the Limitation of Strategic Arms, and the Pavlovsk submarine base in Primorsky Krai was included in the list of objects that the USSR undertook to close.
The hideout is creepy. Its central part is two parallel tunnels connected by passages. Both tunnels, so huge that a submarine can easily enter them, are flooded with water. There are eight entrances to the shelter in total. It is difficult to estimate its true size: 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 radiation background is increased, so it’s better not to walk here without a special suit.
Abandoned and flooded barn near Great Bend, Cottonwood County, Minnesota, USA.
The tree grows at the very top of the chimney. The photo was taken in an abandoned factory yard in Luca, on the outskirts of the city of Asuncion, Paraguay.
Swings frozen in tall grass at a playground in the US town of Scenic, State South Dakota. The picture was taken on the territory of the school that closed in the late 1990s.
Dinosaurs and fiberglass swans in Berlin's abandoned Spreepark amusement park.
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Empty Central Train Station in Detroit, Michigan.
abandoned by all Catholic Church Martyrs of Uganda, in Detroit (a city in the northern United States, in the state of Michigan).
Unfinished apartment buildings in Toledo Provence near Madrid, Spain. Economic crisis turned this heavenly place, which was supposed to be a home for young couples and their children, into one of the most visible on this Earth.
Flagpoles (racks on which the flag is raised) near the pool filled with water and various garbage, empty since the XXVIII summer, held in the capital of Greece, Athens, from August 13 to 29, 2004. A little later (in November), Greece calculated the cost of hosting the Olympics, which amounted to 8.954 billion euros (about $ 11.2 billion).
Abandoned Olympic Sports Complex (OAKA) in Greece. For the first time, representatives from 201 countries participated in the Games, including East Timor (a state in Southeast Asia) and Kiribati (a Pacific state located in Micronesia and Polynesia). Also, having missed the Olympics in Sydney, representatives of
Hallway of the Pennhurst Psychiatric Hospital in Spring City, Pennsylvania. This place has been deserted for over 20 years.
A lone boat on the cracked, shallow land of Xieshan, which is part of Poyang Lake in Jiangxi Province, east China.
Asphalt road surrounded by weeds. The photo was taken in the unfinished settlement of Coolidge, Arizona, USA as a result of the crisis.
A neglected monument to Vladimir Ilyich Lenin against the backdrop of an abandoned Soviet factory in Tbilisi, Georgia.
A deserted farmhouse can be seen in the Osoyoos Valley, British Columbia(province in western Canada).
Abandoned and rusting Packard Motor plant in Detroit, Michigan.
A lonely gangway on the road near the airport in the city of Sirte, Libya.
Jamesburg Science Station, in the Colchagua Valley (Cachagua), located near the town of Carmel, California. The station from which Apollo 11 launched (July 16-24, 1969). Residents then landed on the surface of the moon for the first time, taking several photographs.
Las Vegas Strip, Nevada.
The Royal Navy ship Belfast was lost in thick fog on the River Thames. The photo was taken early in the morning.
Abandoned police station in Memphis, Tennessee, vacant for 30 years.
Houses buried in the sand on the beach in Atafona. Located in a delta in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro, the sandy city of Atafona is slowly sinking into the ocean as rising temperatures speed up the erosion process.
Homes in Gary, Indiana.
The sun sets behind an empty beachhead at Camp Adder, which was the starting point for the last US military convoy to leave the country near Nasiriyah, Iraq.
homeless dog running around main square Villa Sant'Angelo in Abruzzo. The photo was taken in one of the regions of Italy, where a catastrophic earthquake occurred in April 2009.
Empty for 80 years, an Indian colonial mansion at McCluskieganj, about 40 miles northwest of Ranchi.
Destroyed buildings on a Tripoli street in central Misrata, Libya.
Abandoned construction of the New Benghazi project, Libya. Hundreds of concrete mixers, cranes and forklifts sit silently on a huge construction site among the gray buildings that were left unfinished due to the outbreak of hostilities.
The central railway station in Sofia is empty during the strike of railway workers in Bulgaria.
The main gate of an abandoned collective farm in the village of Komoshtitsa (Komoshchitsa), located a hundred kilometers north of Sofia (the capital of Bulgaria).
Kitten on a deserted street in Pelléas de Abajo, northwestern Spain.
They say the only constant in life is change. Literature on history is one way to understand the passage of time, but there are also material monuments that can tell a lot about past times. And if some such places are looked after and taken care of, sometimes it is those that have long been in desolation that are interesting. We bring to your attention several abandoned places around the world, each of which has its own special charm.
Under all this dust, rust and cracks, there are stories of people who once lived here, prayed, and went about their daily business. And when you try to imagine these people and their lives, then special atmosphere and nostalgia. It seems that people have recently collected their things and left the abandoned places. On the other hand, it is interesting to see how some things that once belonged to people are now returning to nature.
This is part of the cooling tower of an abandoned power plant in Monceau, Belgium. The funnel-shaped structure of an abandoned place in the center gave hot water, which then cooled, merging into hundreds of small concrete troughs.
Kolmanskop, Namibia
This is a small abandoned settlement in Namibia that flourished in the early 1900s. Then the German settlers started mining diamonds here. The influx of funds ended after the First World War, when the diamond field began to deplete. By the 1950s, the city was completely abandoned by people, and now only photographers and tourists come here to the abandoned place.
Floating forest in Sydney
This is the hull of the large steamship SS Ayrfield, which was decided to be dismantled in Homebush Bay, Australia, after World War II. But when the shipyard closed, this ship, like several others, remained where they had been abandoned. Now it's an abandoned place, beautiful and mysterious floating forest, which serves as an example that nature can survive anytime, anywhere.
Sea forts of Munsell, England
These forts were built near the mouths of the Thames and Mersey rivers in the UK to protect the country from a potential German air threat during World War II. When they were taken out of service in 1950, several people lived here, including operators of pirate radio stations, as well as the Principality of Sealand, a self-proclaimed independent state.
Last home on Dutch Island, USA
This abandoned place was once part of a fairly successful island colony in Chesapeake Bay in USA. However, due to rapid soil erosion, there was less and less space left on the island. The house pictured was the last one on the island before it collapsed in 2010.
Pripyat, Ukraine. Pripyat is an abandoned city in northern Ukraine, in the Kyiv region
The city is located on the banks of the Pripyat River, 3 km from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, not far from the border with Belarus. Distance to Kyiv - 94 km. The abandoned place Pripyat was founded on February 4, 1970. The general reason for the founding of the city was the construction and subsequent operation of one of the largest nuclear power plants in Europe, Chernobyl, a city-forming enterprise, which gave Pripyat the title of a city of nuclear scientists. Pripyat became the ninth nuclear town in the Soviet Union.
Many workers of the Chernobyl station lived in Pripyat, the work of which ended major disaster in 1986. After the evacuation, Pripyat remains a radioactive ghost town that can only be visited with specialized guides.
House of the Bulgarian Communist Party
The former building of the memorial house, built in the 1980s in honor of the Bulgarian Communist Party, today looks creepy both inside and out. This abandoned place, similar to a flying saucer, fell into disrepair after the collapse of the USSR. Now it is only a ghost of the former building, although there is talk of starting restoration work.
Nara Dreamland Amusement Park, Japan
The park opened in 1961. But by 2006 it was already closed. It is now a popular abandoned site among the city's "discoverers", although guards periodically patrol the area and impose fines on violators who enter the closed area.
Uninhabited island in southeast Florida, USA
These abandoned places are small domed structures built in 1981 at Cape Romano, off the coast of the United States. They were summer residence oil tycoon Bob Lee, but then fell into disrepair. It is still unclear what fate awaits them.
Abandoned mill, Italy
This building in the Valley of the Mills in Sorrento was abandoned in 1866. Once upon a time, wheat was ground here, and there was a sawmill nearby. The abandoned site was isolated from the sea after the construction of Tasso Square, which increased the humidity levels in the region and forced the mill to be abandoned.
Michigan Central Station in Detroit, USA
The station was built in 1913 to create a new transport hub. However, several construction errors led to the abandoned site having to be closed in 1988.
The fate of the station has not yet been decided, but it appeared in several films, for example, in Eminem's 8 Mile.
Sunken yacht, Antarctica
This spooky ghost ship is the Mar Sem Fim, a Brazilian yacht that sank off Ardley Cove in Antarctica. On the yacht, the Brazilian film crew decided to shoot documentary, however, due to strong winds and the storm had to leave it. The water that got on the ship froze, broke through the hull and sank the yacht.
Abandoned Theater New Bedford, USA
This is an old theater in Massachusetts. It was opened in 1912 and closed in 1959. Since then, he has already managed to visit a tobacco store and a supermarket. Now the non-profit organization is trying to raise funds to renovate the building.
Abandoned railway station, Abkhazia
This station in Sukhumi was abandoned during the war in Abkhazia in 1992 and 1993. As a result of the conflict between Georgia and Russia, this region was abandoned, but the station still has traces of its former greatness, such as amazing stucco.
Abandoned wooden houses, Russia
All these exquisitely decorated buildings are located in the Russian outback. Some of them are surrounded by forests.
Due to their remoteness, they remained untouched.
Underwater city in Shichen, China
This incredible underwater city, lost in time, 1341. Shichen, or lion city, is located in Zhejiang province in eastern China. It was flooded in 1959 during the construction of a hydroelectric power station. The water protects the city from wind and rain erosion, so that it remains in relatively good condition.
Abandoned subway station in New York, USA
This beautiful subway station is right under New York City Hall. That is why much attention was paid to its design, but because of the neighboring stations, this one never received due attention from the public, and its curved route was considered not safe enough. The station was closed in 1945 and remains closed to this day, except for a few exclusive tours for tourists.
Hotel Salto, Colombia
The hotel opened in 1928 next to the Tequendama Falls in Colombia to serve tourists who came to view the 157-meter waterfall. The hotel was closed in the early 90s, after interest in the waterfall faded. But in 2012 this place was turned into a museum.
Abandoned subway tunnel in Kyiv, Ukraine
This photo was taken in the subway near Kiev. Many of the tunnels are partially flooded, and stalactites hang from the ceilings.
Abandoned submarine base in Balaklava, Ukraine
Although this base is not completely abandoned, it is still impressive. Until its closure in 1993, it was one of the most secret bases on the territory of the USSR. Today it is the State Maritime Museum.
Abandoned military hospital in Belitz, Germany
This massive hospital complex would have been built in the late 1800s. In it, Adolf Hitler was recovering from a leg injury sustained during the Battle of the Somme in 1916. Some parts of the complex are still in operation, but most were abandoned after the Russian authorities left the hospital in 1995.
Hashima Island, Japan
This island has many names including Warship (due to its shape) and Ghost Island. From the late 1800s to the late 1900s, the island was inhabited because it gave access to underwater coal mines.
However, as Japan gradually switched from coal to gasoline, the mines (and the buildings that sprang up around them) closed down, leaving behind a ghost island that resembled part of a ghostly warship.
UFO houses in San Zhi, Taiwan
These alien houses in Sanzhi were originally intended to be resort houses, in particular, for US military officers serving in Asia. However, due to low investment and accidents with cars, the site had to close in 1980, shortly after it was built. Unfortunately, these amazing buildings were demolished in 2010.
Abandoned church in the snow.
During the visit, the skin is covered with goosebumps from what he saw here. With the most scary places on earth we will meet further.
Old Jewish cemetery in Prague, Czech Republic
Processions in this cemetery took place for almost four centuries (from 1439 to 1787). More than 100 thousand dead are buried on a relatively small plot of land, and the number of tombstones reaches 12,000.
cemetery workers covered the burials with earth, and new tombstones were erected in the same place. On the territory of the cemetery there are places where 12 grave tiers are located under the earth's crust. As time passed, the sagging earth opened the eyes of the living to the old tombstones, which began to shift the later ones. The view turned out not only unusual, but also creepy.
Island of abandoned dolls, Mexico
There is a very strange abandoned island in Mexico, most which is inhabited by scary dolls. It is said that in 1950, a certain hermit Julian Santana Barrera began to collect and hang dolls from wastebaskets, who in this way tried to calm the soul of a girl drowned nearby. Julian himself drowned on the island on April 17, 2001. Now there are about 1000 exhibits on the island.
Hashima Island, Japan
Hasima is a former coal miner's settlement founded in 1887. It was considered one of the most densely populated places on earth - with coastline about a kilometer its population in 1959 was 5259 people. When coal became unprofitable to mine here, the mine was closed and the island city added itself to the list of ghost towns. It happened in 1974.
Chapel of Bones, Portugal
Copella was built in the 16th century by a Franciscan monk. The chapel itself is small - only 18.6 meters long and 11 meters wide, but the bones and skulls of five thousand monks are kept here. On the roof of the chapel is the phrase "Melior est die mortis die nativitatis" ("Better the day of death than the day of birth").
Suicide Forest, Japan
Suicide Forest is the informal name for the Aokigahara Jukai forest, located on the island of Honshu in Japan and famous for its frequent suicides. Initially, the forest was associated with Japanese mythology and was traditionally represented as the abode of demons and ghosts. Now it is considered the second most popular place in the world (the championship at the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco) to settle accounts with life. At the entrance to the forest there is a poster: “Your life is a priceless gift from your parents. Think about them and about your family. You don't have to suffer alone. Call us at 22-0110."
Abandoned psychiatric hospital in Parma, Italy
Brazilian artist Herbert Baglione made an art object from a building that once housed a psychiatric hospital. He portrayed the spirit of this place. Now ghostly figures of exhausted patients roam the former hospital.
Church of St. George, Czech Republic
The church in the Czech village of Lukova has been abandoned since 1968, when part of its roof collapsed during a funeral ceremony. Artist Jakub Hadrava populated the church with ghost sculptures, giving it a particularly sinister look.
Catacombs in Paris, France
Catacombs - a network of winding underground tunnels and caves under Paris. The total length, according to various sources, is from 187 to 300 kilometers. Since the end of the 18th century, the remains of almost 6 million people have been buried in the catacombs.
City of Centralia, Pennsylvania, USA
Due to the underground fire that broke out 50 years ago, which continues to burn to this day, the population has decreased from 1,000 people (1981) to 7 people (2012). The population of Centralia is now considered the smallest in the state of Pennsylvania. Centralia served as the prototype for the creation of the city in the Silent Hill series of games and in the film based on this game.
Akodesseva Magic Market, Togo
The market of magic items and magical herbs Akodesseva is located right in the center of the city of Lome, the capital of the state of Togo in Africa. The Africans of Togo, Ghana and Nigeria still profess the voodoo religion and believe in the miraculous properties of dolls. The fetish assortment of Akodesseva is extremely exotic: here you can buy the skulls of cattle, the dried heads of monkeys, buffaloes and leopards, and many other equally “wonderful” things.
Plague Island, Italy
Poveglia is one of the most famous islands Venetian lagoon, northern Italy. It is said that since Roman times, the island has been used as a place of exile for plague patients, in connection with which up to 160,000 people were buried on it. The souls of many of the dead have allegedly turned into ghosts, with which the island is now full. The island's dismal reputation is exacerbated by tales of horrific experiments allegedly subjected to patients in a psychiatric clinic. For this reason, researchers paranormal activity call the island one of the most terrible places on earth.
Hill of Crosses, Lithuania
The Hill of Crosses is a hill on which many Lithuanian crosses are installed, their total number is approximately 50 thousand. Despite the resemblance, it is not a cemetery. According to popular belief, the one who leaves the cross on the Mountain will be lucky. Neither the time of the appearance of the Hill of Crosses, nor the reasons for its occurrence can be said with accuracy. To this day, this place is shrouded in secrets and legends.
Cabayan burials, Philippines
The famous fire mummies of Kabayan dating back to 1200-1500 AD are buried here, as well as, as the locals believe, their spirits. They were made using a complex mummification process, and are now carefully guarded, as cases of their theft are not uncommon. Why? As one of the robbers said, “he had the right to do so,” since the mummy was his great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather.
Overtown Bridge, Scotland
The old arch bridge is located near the Scottish village of Milton. In the middle of the 20th century, strange things began to happen on it: dozens of dogs suddenly rushed from a 15-meter height, fell on stones and broke to death. Those that survived returned and tried again. The bridge has turned into a real "killer" of four-legged animals.
Aktun Tunichil Muknal Cave, Belize
Aktun Tunichil Muknal is a cave near the city of San Ignacio, Belize. It is an archaeological site of the Maya civilization. Located on the territory natural park Mount Tapira. One of the halls of the cave is the so-called cathedral, where the Mayans performed sacrifices, as they considered this place to be the Xibalba - the entrance to the underworld.
Leap Castle, Ireland
Leap Castle in Offaly, Ireland is considered one of the world's cursed castles. Its dark attraction is a large underground dungeon, the bottom of which is studded with sharp stakes. The dungeon was discovered during the restoration of the castle. In order to take out all the bones from it, the workers needed 4 wagons. Locals say that the castle is inhabited by many ghosts of people who died in the dungeon.
Chauchilla Cemetery, Peru
Chauchilla cemetery is located about 30 minutes from the Nazca desert plateau, on south coast Peru. The necropolis was discovered in the 1920s. According to researchers, bodies were found in the cemetery, which are about 700 years old, and the last burials were carried out here in the 9th century. Chauchilla differs from other burial sites in the special way in which people were buried. All the bodies are "squatting", and their "faces" seem to be frozen in a wide smile. The bodies are perfectly preserved thanks to Peru's dry desert climate.
Sanctuary of Tophet, Tunisia
The most infamous feature of Carthaginian religion was the sacrifice of children, mostly infants. It was forbidden to cry during the sacrifice, as it was believed that any tear, any plaintive sigh would detract from the value of the sacrifice. In 1921, archaeologists discovered a place where several rows of urns were found with the charred remains of both animals (they were sacrificed instead of people) and small children. The place was named Tophet.
Snake Island, Brazil
Queimada Grande is one of the most dangerous and famous islands our planet. On it there is only a forest, a rocky inhospitable coast up to 200 meters high and snakes. There are up to six snakes per square meter of the island. The poison of these reptiles acts instantly. The Brazilian authorities have decided to completely ban anyone from visiting this island, and locals tell chilling stories about it.
Buzludzha, Bulgaria
The largest monument in Bulgaria, located on Mount Buzludzha with a height of 1441 meters, was built in the 1980s in honor of the Bulgarian Communist Party. Its construction took almost 7 years and involved more than 6 thousand workers and experts. The interior was partly finished in marble, and the stairs were decorated with red cathedral glass. Now the memorial house has been completely looted, leaving only a concrete frame with reinforcement, similar to a destroyed alien ship.
City of the Dead, Russia
Dargavs in North Ossetia looks like a pretty village with small stone houses, but in fact it is ancient necropolis. In crypts of various types, people were buried along with all their clothes and personal belongings.
Abandoned military hospital Beelitz-Heilstetten, Germany
During the First and Second World Wars, the hospital was used by the military, and in 1916 Adolf Hitler was treated there. After World War II, the hospital ended up in the zone of Soviet occupation and became the largest Soviet hospital outside the USSR. The complex consists of 60 buildings, some of which have now been restored. Almost all abandoned buildings are closed to access. Doors and windows are securely boarded up with high boards and sheets of plywood.
Unfinished subway in Cincinnati, USA
Abandoned subway depot in Cincinnati - project built in 1884. But after the First World War and as a result of changing demographics, the need for the subway disappeared. Construction slowed down in 1925, half of the 16 km line was completed. There are now guided tours of the abandoned subway twice a year, but many people have been known to roam its tunnels alone.
Hanging coffins of Sagada, Philippines
On the island of Luzon in the village of Sagada is one of the most frightening places in the Philippines. Here you can see unusual burial structures made of coffins placed high above the ground on the rocks. There is a belief among the indigenous population that the higher the body of the deceased is buried, the closer his soul will be to heaven.
Nuclear lighthouse at Cape Aniva (Sakhalin)
The lighthouse was built with great difficulty in 1939 by the architect Miura Shinobu - it was unique and the most difficult technical facility throughout Sakhalin. It ran on a diesel generator and backup batteries until the early 1990s, when it was re-equipped. Thanks to the atomic energy source, maintenance costs were minimal, but soon there were no funds left for this - the building was empty, and in 2006 the military removed two isotope installations from here that fed the lighthouse. Once it shone for 17.5 miles, but now it has been plundered and fallen into disrepair.
Eighth workshop of the Dagdiesel plant, Makhachkala
Naval weapon test station, commissioned in 1939. It is located at a distance of 2.7 km from the coast and has not been used for a long time. Construction was carried out for a long time and was complicated by difficult conditions. Unfortunately, the workshop did not serve the plant for long. The requirements for the work carried out in the shop have changed, and in April 1966 this grand building was written off from the balance sheet. Now this “Massiv” is abandoned and stands in the Caspian Sea, resembling an ancient monster from the shore.
Lier Sikehus Psychiatric Hospital, Norway
At the Norwegian psychiatric hospital, which is located in small town Lier, half an hour from Oslo, a dark past. Once, experiments were carried out on patients here, and for unknown reasons, four buildings of the hospital were abandoned in 1985. Equipment, beds, even magazines and personal belongings of patients remained in the abandoned buildings. At the same time, the remaining eight buildings of the hospital are still working today.
Gunkanjima Island, Japan
In fact, the island is called Hashima, nicknamed Gunkanjima, which means "cruiser island". The island was settled in 1810 when coal was found there. Within fifty years, it has become the most populated island in the world in terms of the ratio of land and the number of inhabitants on it: 5300 people with a radius of the island itself of one kilometer. By 1974, the reserves of coal and other minerals on Gankajima were finally exhausted, and people left the island. Today, visiting the island is prohibited. There are many legends about this place among the people.
