Abandoned in Italy

A seven-story circular concrete tower, once the heart of Ferrara’s Eridania distillery, resembles a modern industrial Colosseum.

Once built to revive one of the world's most legendary car brands, this futuristic factory in Italy now stands abandoned as a striking monument to Bugatti's short-lived 1990s comeback.

An artificial lake that opened in 1930 as a seaplane airport, now a park for aquatic activities.

The ghostly remains of a gunpowder mill lost in 70 hectares of thick woods.

An old mining site that is slowly being reclaimed by nature.

This abandoned IDGZ station was one of 49 troposcatter stations in the NATO ACE High network.

The crumbling remains of a 19th-century textile factory.

A former mining village that now operates as an open-air museum.

A never-inhabited village that was built as part of Mussolini's agricultural reforms.

Though an earthquake destroyed this village in 1980, one former resident still walks its streets every day.

This long-abandoned village sits across a narrow gorge from a still-inhabited settlement that was once its twin.

An abandoned village, frozen in time by the threat of a landslide.

A schoolhouse and chapel are all that remains of this alpine village.

A semi-abandoned village destroyed by U.S. bombings during World War II dominates the valley of Turano.

An eerie gravel road full of shards of red bricks leads to the ruins of a deserted factory.

A haunting collection of sunken wooden barges litters this Italian river bend.