422 Items Tagged

Ghost Towns

Akna, Azerbaijan

Ağdam

Azerbaijani ghost town, decaying after a war left it an armed forces buffer zone.

New York, New York

5 Beekman Street

This beautiful building in the heart of Manhattan's Financial District was empty for decades.

Ani and USSR frontier (picture made in 1991)

Ocaklı Köyü, Turkey

Ani Ghost City

An abused and forgotten metropolis, abandoned for centuries.

Dino bones.

Xilin Gol, China

Dinosaurs Fairyland

Jurassic theme park in the small town of Erlian.

Beveren, Belgium

The Doomed City of Doel

This ghost town in Belgium will lose its street art when it ceases to exist.

Bidah Valley, Saudi Arabia

Marble Village of Dhee Ayn

Village of slate houses, built on a white marble outcrop.

Jerusalem Township, Ohio

Turtle Island

Small, privately owned island divided between Michigan and Ohio with abandoned vacation homes and a derelict lighthouse.

Sanatorio de Sierra Espuña

Haunted tuberculosis hospital built by the patients.

Quneitra

Quneitra

Ghost Town in the Demilitarized Zone of the Golan Heights.

Ocean Falls post office in 1908 (Flickr/BCMT&TCo)

Ocean Falls, British Columbia

Ocean Falls

Beautiful mostly-abandoned town only accessible by sea-worthy boat or plane.

A grand facade in Serjilla (Flickr/Laura and Fulvio's photos)

Balshoon, Syria

Dead City of Serjilla

A 1,500-year-old ghost settlement is slowly fading away.

Siberian entertainment for miners' children (Flickr/Магадан)

Yagodninsky District, Russia

Kadykchan

Siberian ghost town built by gulag prisoners.

Famagusta, Cyprus

Varosha Beach Resort

A 1970s resort city now stands abandoned, caught in the middle of a divided island.

Cinevilla

Spend the night in 1920s Latvia in this historic recreation and movie set.

American pilots at Wheelus Air Base in 1963, six years before Gaddafi took control (Flickr/Kemon01)

Wheelus Air Base

70 years of foreign military influence on the shores of Tripoli, Libya.

Bokor Hill Station

Kampot Province, Cambodia

Bokor Hill Station

A former French military respite turned jungle tourism hotspot.

Train station

Rhyolite Ghost Town

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

Permanently Closed

Empty shoots at Aquatic Paradise

Sitges Aquatic Paradise

Abandoned waterpark turned counter-culture mecca.