Abandoned

In 1962, the ocean severed this peninsula—and the village that sat on it—from the Angolan mainland.

This abandoned prison was so notorious that its name has become a metaphor throughout Albania.

The Grand Canyon’s original airport, which once welcomed pilots like Amelia Earhart and Charles Lindbergh, lies abandoned.

As of 2022, the 124 rooms of Kosovo ski resort remain empty.

A chimney and a plaque are all that remains of a logging camp that once cleared out a large swath of Minnesota's old-growth forest.

The ruins of an open-air theater built on this Georgia island in the 1970s.

All that remains of this former mill town is a ranger station and some crumbling buildings.

On the cliffs of São Jorge in the Azores stand the remains of a lighthouse that was struck by a series of earthquakes.

The only thing still moving in this town is the eponymous hot spring.

Once home to a thriving oil industry, this town now sits eerily abandoned.

An abandoned amusement park turned street art gallery with open walls for visitors to spray paint.

After a catastrophic forest fire, a Greek artist transformed scorched tree trunks outside an old sanatorium into this haunting sculpture garden.

The ruins of an 18th-century mansion that was once named "Mistake" by the man who had it built.

The ruinous former neo-classical mansion was built for Thomas Fraser of Strichen.

Built by an accountant with a dream of running a grand resort, this estate has sat vacant for over half a century.

It's unclear what caused the fire that led to this opulent hotel's demise.