Abandoned in Greece

Abandoned and overgrown town with views of the Mediterranean Sea.

Former Italian settlement on the isle of Rhodes was a WWII command center before being abandoned.

A settlement that was stopped in the middle of construction, leaving behind paved roads, curbs, light poles, a stormwater drainage system, and even a basketball court, but no houses.

The remains of a military communications outpost still stand on this Greek island.

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

This wrecked ghost ship has been rusting on a Greek beach since the 1980s.

This pink watchtower served as the seat of the Greek government after independence from the Turks.

Overlooking the harbor is a beautiful neglected mansion guarded by two Egyptian sphinxes.

The ruins of an abandoned medieval city where the last Byzantine emperor was crowned.

The abandoned summer estate of the former Greek Royal Family.

Once the largest rope factory in Greece, this abandoned plant now stands like a ghost of industry past.

This abandoned Greek island was the last active leper colony in Europe.

The historic tower houses of this nearly abandoned Greek town have been compared to the spikes on an iguana's back.

The ghost town where the villagers refuse to leave.

Thousands of rusting train cars have been slowly falling apart on the edge of Greece's second largest city.

What once sat in the world’s spotlight is today a largely disused ghost complex.