Abandoned – Page 3 – Unknown World

Posted inin Ukraine

Balaklava Submarine Base

Balaklava at one time worked at the base; even family members could not visit the town of Balaklava without a good reason and proper identification. The base remained operational after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 until 1993 when the decommissioning process started.

Posted inin England

Maunsell Forts

The Maunsell Forts were small fortified towers built in the Thames and Mersey estuaries during the Second World War to help defend the United Kingdom.

Posted inin Bulgaria

The House-Monument of the Bulgarian Communist Party

Situated high up in the Balkan Peninsula, at an altitude of 1441m, the Buzludzha monument was built in 1981 – when it served as the symbolic headquarters of Bulgarian communism.

Posted inin Cambodia

Bokor Hill Station

Bokor Hill Station is a French ghost town in Preah Monivong National Park, southern Cambodia.

Posted inin Italy

Civita Di Bagnoregio

Civita Di Bagnoregio was founded by Etruscans over twenty-five hundred years ago but has seen its population dwindle to just fifteen residents over the course of the 20th century.

Posted inin New Zealand

Te Wairoa

Te Wairoa, also known as The Buried Village is located close to the shore of Lake Tarawera in New Zealand's North Island.

Posted inin Syria

Quneitra

Quneitra is the largely destroyed and abandoned capital of the Quneitra Governorate in south-western Syria.

Posted inin Cyprus

Varosha, Famagusta

Varosha is located within Northern Cyprus. Prior to the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974, it was the modern tourist area of Famagusta. Its inhabitants fled during the invasion, and it has remained abandoned ever since.

Posted inin Brazil

Fordlandia

Fordlândia is a now-abandoned, prefabricated industrial town established in the Amazon Rainforest in 1928 by American industrialist Henry Ford to secure a source of cultivated rubber for the automobile manufacturing operations of the Ford Motor Company in the United States.

Posted inin France

Oradour-sur-Glane

Oradour-sur-Glane is a commune in the Haute-Vienne department in the Limousin region in west-central France.

Posted inin Italy

Craco, Basilicata

Craco is an abandoned comune and medieval village located in the Region of Basilicata and the Province of Matera in Italy.

Posted inin Taiwan

Sanzhi UFO Houses

The Sanzhi UFO house, also known as the Sanzhi pod houses or Sanzhi Pod City, were a set of abandoned pod-shaped buildings in Sanzhi District, New Taipei City, Taiwan.

Posted inin Japan

Hashima Island

Hashima Island is one among 505 uninhabited islands in Nagasaki Prefecture about 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Nagasaki itself.

Posted inin Chile

Humberstone and Santa Laura Saltpeter Works

Humberstone and Santa Laura Saltpeter Works are two former saltpeter refineries located in northern Chile. They were declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2005.

Posted inin Namibia

Kolmanskop

Kolmanskop is a ghost town in the Namib desert in southern Namibia, a few kilometres inland from the port town of Lüderitz.

Posted inin Angola

Novi Cidade de Kilamba

Nova Cidade de Kilamba (Kilamba New City) is a large housing development 30 km (18 miles) from Luanda, the capital city of Angola.

Posted inin Ethiopia

Dallol

Dallol was a settlement in the Dallol woreda of northern Ethiopia.

Posted inin Ukraine

Chernobyl 2, The Russian Woodpecker

The Russian Woodpecker was a notorious Soviet radio signal that could be sporadically heard on the shortwave radio bands worldwide between July 1976 and December 1989.

Posted inin Ukraine

Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant

The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is a decommissioned nuclear power station near the city of Pripyat, Ukraine. Reactor 4 was the site of the Chernobyl disaster in 1986 and the power plant is now within a large restricted area known as the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone.

Posted inin Ukraine

Pripyat

A vast stretch of snow-covered bleakness, this Ukrainian city has been deserted since the nuclear accident of April 1986.