The most terrible abandoned places in the world, where you cannot lure an ordinary tourist. Abandoned and creepy: the scariest places you can find in Russia

Abandoned and flooded barn near Great Bend, Cottonwood County, Minnesota, USA.

The tree grows at the very top of the chimney. The photo was taken in an abandoned factory yard in Luque, on the outskirts of Asuncion, Paraguay.

A swing froze in the tall grass at a playground in the American town of Scenic, South Dakota. The photo was taken on the territory of a school that closed in the late 1990s.

Dinosaurs and fiberglass swans in the abandoned Spreepark amusement park in Berlin.
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An empty Grand Central Station in Detroit, Michigan.

The abandoned Catholic Church of the Martyrs of Uganda, in Detroit (a city in the northern USA, in the state of Michigan).

Unfinished residential buildings in Toledo Provence near Madrid, Spain. The economic crisis has turned this paradise, which was supposed to be a home for young couples and their children, into one of the most visible on this Earth.

Flagpoles (stands along which the flag is raised) near a pool filled with water and various debris, empty since the XXVIII Summer, held in the capital of Greece, Athens, from August 13 to 29, 2004. A little later (in November), Greece calculated the costs of hosting the Olympics, which amounted to 8.954 billion euros (about $11.2 billion).

Abandoned Olympic Sports Complex (OACA) in Greece. For the first time, representatives from 201 countries participated in the Games, including East Timor (a state in Southeast Asia) and Kiribati (a Pacific state located in Micronesia and Polynesia). Also, having missed the Sydney Olympics, representatives performed in Athens

The hallway of Pennhurst Psychiatric Hospital in Spring City, Pennsylvania. This place has been deserted for more than 20 years.

A lone boat on the cracked, shallow land of Xieshan, which is part of Poyang Lake in Jiangxi Province, eastern China.

Asphalt road surrounded by weeds. The photo was taken in the settlement of Coolidge, Arizona, USA, which was unfinished as a result of the crisis.

An unkempt monument to Vladimir Ilyich Lenin against the backdrop of an abandoned Soviet factory in Tbilisi, Georgia.

A deserted farmhouse can be seen in the Osoyoos Valley, British Columbia (province in western Canada).

Abandoned and rusting over time, the Packard Motor plant in Detroit, Michigan.

A lonely gangway on the road near the airport in Sirte, Libya.

Jamesburg Research Station, in the Colchagua Valley, located near the town of Carmel, California. The station from which Apollo 11 launched (July 16-24, 1969). Residents then landed on the surface of the Moon for the first time, taking several photographs.

Las Vegas Strip, Nevada.

The Royal Navy ship HMS Belfast became lost in thick fog on the River Thames. The photo was taken early in the morning.

An abandoned police station in Memphis, Tennessee, empty for 30 years.

Houses buried in sand on the beach in Atafona. Situated in a delta in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro, the sand town of Atafona is gradually sinking into the ocean as rising temperatures accelerate erosion.

Homes in Gary, Indiana.

The sun sets behind the empty staging area at Camp Adder, which was the departure point for the last American military convoy to leave the country near Nasiriyah, Iraq.

A stray dog ​​runs around the main square of Villa Sant'Angelo in Abruzzo. The photo was taken in one of the regions of Italy where a catastrophic earthquake occurred in April 2009.

An Indian colonial mansion has been vacant for 80 years in McCluskieganj, about 40 miles northwest of the city of Ranchi.

Destroyed buildings on Tripoli Street in central Misrata, Libya.

Abandoned construction of the New Benghazi project, Libya. Hundreds of concrete mixers, cranes and forklifts stand silently on a huge construction site among gray buildings that were left unfinished by the outbreak of hostilities.

Sofia's central railway station stands empty during a railway workers' strike in Bulgaria.

The main gate of an abandoned collective farm in the village of Komoshtitsa (Komoshtitsa), located one hundred kilometers north of Sofia (the capital of Bulgaria).

A kitten on a deserted street in Peleas de Abajo, northwestern Spain.

Mysterious and attractive places: picturesque thrillers can be filmed in them. Our country is beautiful and so huge that few people can seriously imagine its scale. And almost everywhere: from Sakhalin to Kaliningrad there are people who eventually leave their homes for various reasons. Even in the middle of a busy city, you can find a forgotten corner, and empty villages are scattered throughout the country.

Here is a list of the ten most romantic and eerie places where there are no more people.
Nuclear lighthouse at Cape Aniva (Sakhalin)



The lighthouse was built with great difficulty in 1939 according to the design of the architect Miura Shinobu; it was a unique and most complex technical structure in all of Sakhalin. It operated on a diesel generator and backup batteries until the early nineties, and then it was converted. Thanks to the nuclear energy source, maintenance costs were minimal, but soon there was no money left for this either - the building was empty, and in 2006 the military removed two isotope installations that powered the lighthouse from here. It once shone for 17.5 miles, but is now plundered and abandoned.

Fairytale castle in Zaklyuchye



It can be found in a picturesque forest area, on the high shore of a small lake, between Moscow and St. Petersburg. Estate of architect A.S. Khrenova was built at the end of the 19th century according to his own design. A distinctive feature of the house is complete asymmetry, as well as a combination of natural and artificial materials during construction. What appears before your eyes is either a medieval castle or a classic city estate, which in Soviet times was a sanatorium. Currently, the house is being restored very slowly, so it cannot be considered completely abandoned.

Five-star hotel "Northern Crown"


The construction of the Northern Crown Hotel began in 1988 by a Yugoslav company. They wanted to build a five-star hotel with 247 rooms with a total area of ​​about 50,000 square meters. m. Construction work stopped at the end of 1995, when the object was almost ready. They have been planning to demolish it for several years now, but nothing has happened. So it stands, damp, attracting strangers with its unusually shaped roof, bright interiors and mold on the plasterboard stucco.

Eighth workshop of the Dagdizel plant, Kaspiysk


Naval weapons testing station, commissioned in 1939. It is located 2.7 km from the coast and has not been used for a long time. Construction took a long time and was complicated by difficult conditions: the foundation was made on the shore, and then delivered to the construction site. The depth of the walls is 14 meters and the thickness is 1.5 meters. Unfortunately, the workshop did not serve the plant for long. The requirements for the work carried out in the workshop changed, and in April 1966 this grandiose structure was written off from the factory balance sheet. Now this “Array” is abandoned and stands in the Caspian Sea, resembling an ancient monster from the shore.

Diamond quarry "Mir", Yakutia


Open pit diamond mining ended in 2004 and the mine was 525 meters deep and 1,200 meters wide, making it the second largest excavated hole in the world after the Bingham Canyon mine. The hole is so large that the airspace above the mine is closed to helicopters due to accidents in which they were sucked into the downdraft. The landscape around looks deserted and completely alien.

Khovrinskaya Hospital, Moscow


A huge multi-storey hospital began to be built on the site of the cemetery in 1980, and construction stopped after five years. Now the basements are flooded, and the building is slowly going underground. “HZB”, “Umbrella”, “Unfinished”, “Nemostor”: the place is more than famous, has acquired a huge number of urban legends and attracts a variety of personalities. Resident evil and a gate to a parallel world in the middle of Moscow. Popular among young thrill-seekers, and already has its own folklore and “locals”.

Kadykchan village, Magadan region



Kadykchan (translated from the Evenki language as “Valley of Death”), the village was built by prisoners. In January 1986, the population was 10,270 people, and by 2006 not even a thousand remained; in 2012, one elderly man lived here. Coal was mined here, through which most of the Magadan region received energy, but after the explosion at the mine, people began to leave, the village was closed and disconnected from heat and electricity. Now it is an abandoned mining "ghost town". Books and furniture have been preserved in the houses, cars have been preserved in the garages, and the streets of five-story buildings are gradually being destroyed.

Abandoned Navy submarine base Bechevinka


Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky-54, Finval Bay was founded in the 1960s as a military town and submarine base. Once a week a ship sailed to Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky; there was no land communication with other settlements. The brigade was completely disbanded in 1996. All military equipment was removed, electricity and water supplies were cut off. At the same time as the village of Bechevinka, the settlement of rocket scientists Shipunsky, located on a hill on the other side of the bay, ceased to exist. The village is surrounded by mountains and the incredible beauty of Kamchatka.

Building of the Energy sanatorium in the Moscow region


On the territory of the sanatorium there is a new building that regularly receives guests who want to fish in the local ponds, but the old building partially burned down and was abandoned. There was a cinema in the burned part. The rooms are filled with mountains of garbage - TVs and furniture. The main attraction of the building is the palace-style staircase. There are a huge number of similar establishments in Russia; abandoned pioneer camps and sanatoriums are a common occurrence.

Maternity hospital in the Vladimir region



What could be more mysterious and gloomy than abandoned medical institutions? Even existing hospitals are terrifying to many people simply because of their specific nature. The building, built at the end of the 19th century, housed the maternity ward of the city hospital. It functioned, judging by calendars and documents, until 2009, and there was some kind of security until 2012. Broken windows were regularly repaired, and the building was going to be renovated in 2013. Much of the building remained untouched, and it seems that just recently in these spacious halls people were waiting for good news from doctors.

People tend to be interested in something unusual, supernatural, those phenomena that just don’t want to fit into their heads.

In every corner of the world there are places that are shrouded in terrible secrets and legends. Speculation here is intertwined with facts, and sometimes it is impossible to understand where is fiction and where is the truth. Our planet is rich in such places. Should we talk about the world famous Paris catacombs or the Auschwitz concentration camp? Why go far, take at least the same Ukrainian Chernobyl...

However, Russia is also full of stories with mysterious disappearances, unexplained deaths and other terrible incidents that make the blood freeze in our veins. We bring to your attention the top 10 scariest places in Russia, which are famous for their paranormal phenomena and all kinds of legends.

Devil's cemetery in the Krasnoyarsk region

It looks like an ordinary clearing, located on a slight hill, but it is included in a creepy rating called “The most terrible places in Russia.” Almost a hundred people are known to have died or gone missing over the past 30 years who approached this inexplicable place. This clearing was discovered in 1908; according to one of the many versions, a meteorite, known to many as the Tunguska, landed here. Allegedly, a celestial body pierced the mouth of a volcano, which is why a surprisingly smooth circle was formed inside a dense forest.

The damn cemetery is included in the top of the most terrible places in Russia for good reason: they say that absolutely all living things die in this clearing. Hundreds of cows, sheep and any other domestic, as well as wild livestock die as soon as they wander onto it. People were and are still afraid to approach this place; after the war, all nearby settlements were resettled.

Mountain of the Dead in the Sverdlovsk Region

The list entitled “The most terrible places in Russia” also includes the so-called “Mountain of the Dead,” known throughout the world as the Dyatlov Pass. The terrible story that happened here back in 1959 still haunts many. A group of tourists who went on a hike under the leadership of Igor Dyatlov died under strange, inexplicable, mysterious circumstances. The corpses, which were subsequently discovered by search expeditions, had injuries of an unknown nature.

The people in the group were found far beyond the tent city, barefoot, with crushed bones, and with frozen horror on their faces. Where and from what they fled remained a mystery. No traces of a struggle or the presence of strangers (animals) were ever found. Also, there was nothing to indicate weather anomalies in the form of a hurricane, tornado or avalanche.

In 1961, another group of tourists died under almost the same circumstances. Now “Mountain of the Dead” is open to tourists who dream of visiting the most terrible abandoned places in Russia. However, apparently, the feeling of fear is stronger than curiosity, and the Dyatlov Pass is not very popular among extreme sports enthusiasts.

Lake in the east of Yakutia - Labynkyr

This reservoir is located in the Oymyakon region. There are thousands of legends and mysterious stories about this place. They say that it is home to a terrible monster that has survived since the time of dinosaurs. The death toll includes more than 20 people, supposedly all people and animals that fall into the waters of the lake are swallowed up by this terrible monster.

But there is no evidence or real confirmation of abnormal deaths. After all, the area itself does not allow any investigations to be carried out - it is wild and difficult to pass and clearly does not want curious researchers and tourists to visit it. So, covered in fables, legends and speculation, the lake, nevertheless, is included in the top scary places in Russia.

Medveditskaya ridge in the Volgograd region

This truly creepy place is located in the Zhirnovsky district of the Volgograd region. The ridge is a whole chain of hills of various heights (from 200 to 300 meters). It is no longer possible to surprise local residents with various traces allegedly left by UFOs, a huge number of lightning and other inexplicable phenomena. Proof of all this is the terrible broken trees with blackened, burnt, twisted trunks and strange scorched meadows of correct, from a geometric point of view, oval and rounded shapes. But the interesting fact is that among all this madness with charred trees, bright green fresh grass grows. The living and the dead are nearby...

And under the Medveditskaya ridge itself, at a depth of 6-25 meters, there are many tunnels, reaching a diameter of 10 to 20 meters. Their length is several tens of kilometers. If you believe local folklore, in the mentioned tunnels there is an underground UFO base, a city of robbers and much more, which, however, is not confirmed by any facts. Nevertheless, this region is included in the top 10 most terrible abandoned places in Russia, and people believe that it is deservedly so.

Among other things, strange springs come out of the ground in this creepy place. The purest spring water flows from one place, and after only 10 meters you can stumble upon a radioactive source.

Death Valley

This is not the name for one creepy place, but several at once. There are valleys of death not only in Russia, but all over the world.

One of them is located in the Novgorod region, in Valdai. They talk about a certain old stump, when approaching it people and animals simply disappear. However, according to local authorities, these are all stories and nothing more. Allegedly, there have not yet been any reports of strange disappearances of people.

There is a Death Valley in the Yakutsk region. Here they call her Elyuyu Cherkechekh. They say that luminous spheres, strange objects, and inexplicable flashes are constantly seen there, but studies have not revealed any anomalies in this region.

But in Kamchatka, the world-famous Death Valley is truly dangerous. This is an anomalous zone where livestock falls are often recorded, and there are rumors of human deaths. The cause of death for animals that wander here is gas intoxication. No matter how many studies were carried out, it was not possible to identify the cause of the spread of gases. You can avoid troubles during the day (simply retreat at the slightest change in well-being), but staying in this place at night is extremely dangerous - it can threaten poisoning in your sleep.

Myasnoy Bor in the Novgorod region

But this land really deserves to top the list of “The most terrible places in Russia” (photos of the area are creepy to look at, not to mention being there).

As if by evil irony, the village located on this land was called Myasny Bor. The swamp and forests here themselves are dying. But during the Second World War, hundreds and thousands of Soviet and German soldiers died here.

Every year, search teams raise many human remains here for burial, but, to everyone’s horror, this does not make them fewer.

This place has some kind of eerie energy. According to eyewitnesses, at times you can clearly hear men’s voices and even machine gun fire here, and smell the smell of shag.

There are no living creatures in Myasny Bor; you get a clear feeling that you are on a dead land, where it is not only creepy, but also possibly dangerous.

Lake Svetloyar in the Nizhny Novgorod region

It would seem that what terrible and unusual can be seen when looking at the perfectly flat, round shape of a small reservoir (12 sq. km)? But, according to eyewitnesses, strange sounds can be heard from the depths of the lake that resemble the ringing of bells.

According to legend, in 1237 the settlement of Kitezh was located here, and its inhabitants prayed to God for salvation so as not to fall into the hands of the Tatar evil spirits, which in those days burned Rus' to the ground. Allegedly, the prayers were heard, and the entire village, along with churches, houses and people, simply disappeared, and Lake Svetloyar appeared in its place.

Moleb Triangle in the Urals

This mysterious place is located at the junction of the Perm Territory and the Sverdlovsk Region, known throughout the world as the Perm Anomalous Zone.

Previously, this place was considered holy land; there was a prayer stone for sacrifices. Now it is famous as an area prone to paranormal phenomena. Here they find traces of Bigfoot, see unidentified flying objects, and observe various luminous balls.

Not only Russian scientists, but also foreign ufologists are interested in this strange zone. Thousands of studies are carried out here every year in the hope of finding explanations for such mysterious phenomena.

Zheltoyar in Voronezh region

This area - by the way, not in vain - was also included in the creepy top “The most terrible places in Russia”. The cemetery for WWII soldiers located here is depressing. Every day, thousands of human remains and belongings of the dead are found on this land. Many claim that ghosts of soldiers roam the forests.

Lovozero tundra

Another dangerous place for humans is a small area on the Kola Peninsula. Somewhere here there is a source that causes hallucinations in people that can drive them crazy. No explanation has been found for this phenomenon.

Due to a series of mysterious deaths of dozens of climbers who tried to conquer the mountains in this area, all tourist routes were closed in the last century. However, now anyone can try to conquer the local mountains, but it turns out that there are not so many extreme sports enthusiasts.

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The combination of mystery and danger arouses interest and attracts attention against our will, and the sight of nature, which calmly captures what people have created, returns us to the understanding of our own insignificance in the face of time.

San Ji Ghost Town, Taiwan

A luxurious resort on the sea coast was built specifically for the local rich. But already during construction something strange began to happen. Dozens of workers died: they broke their necks falling from heights (even with safety ropes), and died under collapsed cranes. The surrounding residents were sure that the town was inhabited by evil spirits. There were harrowing stories about a Japanese “death camp” that had once been located here. At the end of the 1980s, construction stalled. The apartments never found buyers, and the authorities do not demolish the city because people believe that this will release evil spirits.

Abandoned military hospital in Beelitz, Germany

The city of the same name is located 40 kilometers from the capital of Germany. During the First and Second World Wars, the hospital was used by the military, and in 1916 Adolf Hitler was treated there. In 1995, people left the city, and since then it has been gradually destroyed.

Eighth workshop of the Dagdizel plant, Makhachkala

Naval weapons testing station, commissioned in 1939. It is located 2.7 km from the coast and has not been used for a long time. Construction took a long time and was complicated by difficult conditions. Unfortunately, the workshop did not serve the plant for long. The requirements for the work carried out in the workshop changed, and in April 1966 this grandiose structure was written off from the factory balance sheet. Now this “Array” is abandoned and stands in the Caspian Sea, resembling an ancient monster from the shore.

Psychiatric Clinic Lier Sikehus, Norway

The Norwegian psychiatric hospital, located in the small town of Lier, half an hour's drive from Oslo, has a dark past. Experiments on patients were once carried out here, and for unknown reasons, four hospital buildings were abandoned in 1985. Equipment, beds, even magazines and personal belongings of patients remained in the abandoned buildings. At the same time, the remaining eight buildings of the hospital are still operating to this day.

Gunkanjima Island, Japan

In fact, the island is called Hashima, nicknamed Gunkanjima, which means “cruiser island.” The island was settled in 1810 when coal was discovered there. Within fifty years, it has become the most populated island in the world in terms of the ratio of land and the number of inhabitants on it: 5,300 people with a radius of the island itself of one kilometer. By 1974, the reserves of coal and other minerals on Gankajima were completely exhausted, and people left the island. Today, visiting the island is prohibited. There are many legends about this place among the people.

Kowloon Walled City, Hong Kong, China

The city was located in Hong Kong, but did not obey the authorities, being under the control of the mafia. Not only did prostitution and drug trafficking flourish inside, but there was also self-government. In addition, the area had its own industry: semi-handicraft production of noodles and all sorts of small things. The enterprises' products were inexpensive: there were no taxes, and local entrepreneurs did not comply with labor laws. They had their own nursing home, kindergarten and school. In the early 1990s, the population density reached two million people per square kilometer.

After a difficult process of eviction of the people living there, a park of the same name was opened in this place in 1995. Some of the city's historical artifacts, including the yamen building, and the remains of the South Gate have been preserved.

Abandoned Hotel Salto in Colombia

In 1924, the luxurious Refugio El Salto hotel was built in the city of San Antonio del Tequendama. After some time, the hotel was closed due to the increasing number of suicides among visitors. There are ominous legends and rumors surrounding this place.

Church of San Juan Parangaricutiro, Mexico

The church, located in the village of the same name, was buried under the lava of the Paricutin volcano in 1944, the village was completely destroyed. Miraculously, the altar and the church bell tower remained intact, surrounded by the ruins of the temple complex, the protruding cones of solidified lava reminiscent of foreign paintings.

Underwater city of Shichen in China

Ghost town of Kolmanskop, Namibia

The ghost town of Kolmanskop, built in a place where small diamonds were discovered in the sand, which the wind brought from the ocean. Large beautiful houses, a school, a hospital, and a stadium were built in the city, and the settlement quickly turned into a model German city. Everyone was counting on long-term prosperity, but alas, the “reserve of diamonds” quickly dried up. In addition, the city was difficult to live in due to problems with water and sandstorms, and people left it. Most of the houses are almost entirely covered with sand and make a depressing impression.

These eerie images of abandoned places on our planet give you an idea of ​​what this world would look like if people left it.

A tree grows in an abandoned piano

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UFO houses in Sanzhi, Taiwan

Also known as the Sanzhi Saucer Houses, a futuristic complex of 60 UFO-shaped houses made from durable fiberglass is located in Sanzhi County, Xinbei, Taiwan. An unrealized project of a group of companies under the patronage of the state of a complex of ultra-modern houses for the capital's rich.

Overgrown Palace, Poland

In 1910, this palace was built as a home for the Polish nobility. Under the communist regime, the palace became an agricultural college and then a mental hospital. After the 90s the building has been empty.

Jet Star amusement park coaster, New Jersey, USA

This coaster remained in the Atlantic Ocean after Storm Sandy in 2013. They rusted for six months until they were dismantled.

Abandoned house in the forest

Church in Saint-Etienne, France

Abandoned church with mannequins of parishioners, Netherlands

Doll factory, Spain

A tree growing through a bicycle

Wrecks on a sandbank, Bermuda Triangle

Floating forest, Sydney, Australia

Cinema in Detroit, Michigan, USA

As Detroit deteriorated, many of its historic buildings were abandoned.

Shipyard in Vallejo, California, USA

Mare Island Naval Shipyard served as a submarine port during both World Wars. In the 1990s, the building was abandoned and flooded.

House between two trees, Florida, USA

Titanic

The Titanic set off on its first and last voyage in April 1912. 73 years later, the largest ship of the early 20th century was found at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.

Circular railway, Paris, France

The Petite Ceinture railway was built in 1852 and ran between the main train stations of Paris within the city walls. During its operation, it connected five city highways. Since 1934, the railway, as well as some of its stations, have been partially abandoned.

Spreepark, Berlin, Germany

In 1969, an amusement park with rides, cafes and green lawns was built on the banks of the Spree in the southeast of the city. After the unification of the two Berlins, the park lost its relevance and closed due to insufficient funding.

Library, Russia

House on the Row, Finland

Turquoise Canal, Venice, Italy

Like any other city, Venice has abandoned places. But there they look even more picturesque.

Stairway to Nowhere, Pismo Beach, California, USA

Nara Dreamland Park, Japan

Nara Dreamland was built in 1961 as Japan's answer to Disneyland and even included its own version of Sleeping Beauty Castle. Closed in 2006 due to low visitor numbers.

Abandoned Mining Road, Taiwan

Abandoned pier

Bare footprints in an abandoned nuclear reactor

Indoor water park

Boathouse, Lake Obersee, Germany

Abandoned administrative building in Italy

Methodist Church in Indiana, USA

Gary, Indiana was founded in 1905 during the US steel boom. In the 1950s, more than 200,000 people lived and worked in this city. After the fall of the dispute on steel, almost half of the city was empty.

Church in the snow, Canada

Blue spiral staircase in a European castle

Soviet naval testing station in Makhachkala, Russia

Bell tower of a church in a frozen lake, Reschen, Italy

Lake Reschen is a reservoir in which several villages and a 14th-century church were flooded.

Glenwood Power Plant, New York, USA

This power plant, built in 1906, has long since become obsolete. After closing in 1968, it was used as a location for filming thrillers and zombie films.

Flooded shopping center

Train station in Canfranc, Spain

Canfranc is a small town located near the border with France. In 1928, the largest and most beautiful railway station in the world at that time opened here, which was called “the sparkling jewel of modernity.”

In 1970, the railway bridge on the road to Canfranc was destroyed and the station was closed. The bridge was not restored, and the former “pearl of Art Nouveau” began to fall into disrepair.

Abandoned theater

Automobile cemetery, Ardennes, Belgium

Many American soldiers on the Western Front during World War II purchased cars for personal use. When the war ended, it turned out that sending them home was very expensive and many of the cars remained here.

Attraction in Chernobyl, Ukraine

Abandoned hospital. Chernobyl, Ukraine

The city of Pripyat was deserted after the 1986 disaster at the nearby Chernobyl nuclear power plant. It has been empty since then and will remain empty for thousands of years.

City Hall Subway Station, New York, USA

City Hall Station opened in 1904 and closed in 1945. Only 600 people a day used it when it was operational.

Abandoned house in Virginia, USA

Poveglia Island, Italy

Poveglia is an island in the Venetian lagoon that, during the time of Napoleon Bonaparte, became an isolation ward for plague victims and later an asylum for the mentally ill.

Gulliver's Travels Park, Kawagushi, Japan

The park opened in 1997. Lasted only 10 years and was abandoned due to financial problems

Lighthouse on Aniva rock, Sakhalin, Russia

The Aniva lighthouse was installed in 1939 by the Japanese (at that time this part of Sakhalin belonged to them) on the small Sivuchya rock, near the inaccessible rocky Cape Aniva. This area is replete with currents, frequent fogs, and underwater rocky banks. The height of the tower is 31 meters, the height of the light is 40 meters above sea level.

Eilean Donan Castle, Scotland

A castle located on a rocky island lying in the Loch Duich fjord in Scotland. One of the most romantic castles in Scotland, it is famous for its heather honey and interesting history. Filming took place in the castle: “The Phantom Goes West” (1935), “The Master of Ballantrae” (1953), “Highlander” (1986), “Mio, My Mio” (1987), “The World Is Not Enough” (1999) , Friend of the Bride (2008).

Abandoned mill, Ontario, Canada

Underwater city Shicheng, China

Hidden beneath the waters of the Lake of a Thousand Islands in China is the underwater city of Shicheng City. The architecture of the city has remained virtually untouched, for which archaeologists have nicknamed it a “time capsule.” Shicheng, or as it is also called “Lion City”, was founded more than 1339 years ago. During the construction of a hydroelectric power station in 1959, it was decided to flood the city.

Munsell Sea Forts, UK

In the shallow waters of the North Sea off the coast of Great Britain, abandoned air defense sea forts stand above the water. Their main tasks were to protect the large industrial centers of England from air attacks from the most vulnerable direction - from the sea - from the mouths of the Thames and Mersey rivers and to protect the approaches from the sea to London and Liverpool, respectively.

Christ from the Abyss, San Fruttoso, Italy

The statue of Jesus Christ, located at the bottom of the sea, in the bay of San Fruttuoso, near Genoa. The statue, about 2.5 meters high, was installed on August 22, 1954 at a depth of 17 meters. In addition, in different parts of the world there are several similar statues (both copies of the original and variations on its theme), also bearing the name “Christ from the Abyss”.

Ryugyong Hotel, Pyongyang, North Korea

Now it is the largest and tallest building in Pyongyang and the DPRK as a whole. The hotel was expected to open in June 1989, but construction problems and material shortages delayed the opening. The Japanese press estimated the amount spent on construction at $750 million - 2% of North Korean GDP. In 1992, due to lack of funding and the general economic crisis in the country, construction was stopped.

The main part of the tower was built, but windows, communications and equipment were not installed. The top of the building is poorly made and may fall off. The current structure of the building cannot be used. The North Korean government is trying to attract $300 million in foreign investment to develop and build a new hotel design, but in the meantime it has removed the long-term construction from maps and postage stamps.