Moorslede, Belgium
Dadipark
This Belgian theme park began as a refuge for bored church children and was closed down when a boy lost an arm.
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Moorslede, Belgium
This Belgian theme park began as a refuge for bored church children and was closed down when a boy lost an arm.
Berlin, Germany
The music is over at the Ballhaus Riviera Ballroom, but the ballroom remains in haunting disrepair.
Cricket Saint Thomas, England
The mouldering remains of a disgraced British children's icon are hidden in the brush of a public park.
London, England
A subterranean ice warehouse that has lain hidden beneath central London for over a century is now open to the public.
Vis, Croatia
Formerly Yugoslavia's "forbidden island," this sleepy little city still holds the abandoned remains of military strongholds.
Canale Monterano, Italy
The remains of a town so thoroughly destroyed by French forces that the citizens simply left.
Volterra, Italy
This real life asylum of horrors is now an abandoned ruin that hides the unbreakable code to one patient's insanity.
Pacifica, California
Another of California's unused Cold War missile defense complexes has become a graffiti gallery.
St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana
This abandoned Civil War fortress is slowly being swallowed by the waters of Lake Borgne.
São Miguel, Portugal
This abandoned five-star hotel is now a five-star urban exploration destination.
Zwentendorf, Austria
Austria's very first and only nuclear power station was completed but never used.
Egkomi, Cyprus
This former Cyprus flight hub is now a crumbling, abandoned ghost complex.
Hamburg, Germany
Once the tallest building in the world, this abandoned church is now a monument to the destruction of WWII.
Iceland
This wrecked airplane has been sitting on a black sand beach since the 1970s.
Skagen, Denmark
The northernmost point in Denmark is a turbulent sandbar created by two clashing seas.
Skagen, Denmark
Tiring of digging out the door to this church for every service, it was eventually abandoned to the sands.
Brooklyn, New York
An abandoned subway tunnel that could have reinvigorated Staten Island still lies somewhere beneath this Brooklyn park.
Sint-Truiden, Belgium
This Belgian palace was long the domain of priests and aristocrats but is now being turned into an art commune.
Gnojnice, Bosnia and Herzegovina
This abandoned airplane hanger is said to have once been a top secret launch facility.
Hadžići, Bosnia and Herzegovina
This abandoned Olympic skiing facility still bears the scars of the Siege of Sarajevo.
London, England
An abandoned tank sits in an empty London lot as a symbolic middle finger to local city planners.
Sweden
Once the nail factory shut its doors, this Swedish factory town was abandoned, leaving behind a modern ghost town.
Hajmáskér, Hungary
One of the largest barracks of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy's military is now an abandoned ruin.
New York, New York
This abandoned subway station can still be seen on regular commuter trips.