September 28, 2019

Cue The Phantom of the Opera: This is the story of a real-life hidden concert hall, tucked deep underground and forgotten beneath the bustling street above. ...

September 20, 2019

Whether they were once hospitals of office buildings, theme parks or restaurants, a myriad of buildings have been abandoned and left to turn into beautiful ruin across the world. ...

June 1, 2019

We all know from history class, as well as TV shows, movies, and books, that all of America’s gold is kept in a vault at Fort Knox. This bullion bunker in the heart of Kentucky,...

March 2, 2019

A lost civilization located in India, Mohenjo-Daro was the largest city in the Indus Valley and was considered to be one of the world’s most sophisticated cities. This mysterious...

November 8, 2017

The home, fondly called Bon Haven by the locals, has been a landmark in Spartanburg since its construction in 1884. No one has lived here since 1995, when the la...

August 30, 2017

This whimsical house is located in the sparse woods in Willow, Alaska. The locals calls it the 'Dr. Seuss House,' and it's easy to see why. The structure stand 185 feet...

August 22, 2017

Ancient temples hide within them thousands of years of history and mysteries... Credit: Mystic Lands

August 22, 2017

Chand Baori is the oldest stepwell in Rajhastan, India and the deepest and biggest in the entire world. Stepwells are built with steps on the side which allows people to e...

August 21, 2017

Turf has been used for building structures by European and arctic cultures since the Neolithic period. In Iceland, these green-covered dwellings merge beautifully...

April 1, 2017

If you ever have $1.5M to spare, and you want a town to call your own — good news! The village of Reduction, Pennsylvania is on the market. But you have to have c...

March 18, 2017

Camilo José Vergara is a Chilean-born photographer who captured buildings in his neighborhood and witnessed as they change through the years. He documented these ...

March 12, 2017

Russia’s Kizhi island is popular for many historical wooden buildings that were moved to the island from various parts of Karelia for safety purposes during the...

March 5, 2017

In the Flemish province of East-Flanders, there is a subdivision of the municipality of Beveren called Doel. It is a 400-year-old village north-west of Antwerp, B...

March 4, 2017

A medieval castle is not just a huge glamorous palace with hefty stone walls surrounding it -- it's more than that. It's an architecture that was entirely designe...

February 20, 2017

Off the eastern coast of China, along the Yangtze River opening, a deserted fishing village is being taken over little at a time by the forces of nature. Located on Gouqi...

January 23, 2017

One of the well-known masterpiece in Evora, Portugal is located next to the Church of St. Francis, a modest interior chapel called the Capela dos Ossos which tran...

January 23, 2017

Concealed in Tuscan hills of Northern Italy is Castello di Sammezzano. Four hundred years ago, this magnificent Moorish castle was built around 1605. However, for more than...

January 19, 2017

Cities, empires and religions have been erected and demolished around these unique underground sanctuaries used by early Christians to hide from Roman armies, sti...

December 21, 2016

When they bought the house, the Otcaseks were only told that the property had “an unusual feature”: a large, concrete-lined hole in the backyard. They were told t...

December 19, 2016

Hotel Prora is a massive building complex built between 1936 and 1939 by the Nazis as part of their "Strength through Joy" programme. The complex stretches over three miles alo...

December 16, 2016

From the birthplace of the lobotomy to a school for disabled children with "zoo-like" conditions, let's go behind the locked doors of history's worst institutions...

December 16, 2016

Lost for decades beneath the streets of Naples, Italy, the Galleria Borbonica is a time capsule of the city's history. The system of tunnels and caverns, stretching fro...

December 14, 2016

The old mining town of Kennicott in the US state of Alaska, located on the south slopes of Wrangell mountain close to the Kennicott Glacier, about five miles up from t...

December 5, 2016

Originally the home of William Carson, one of Northern California’s first major lumber barons,the Carson Mansion is a large Victorian house located in Old Town, E...

November 28, 2016

In 1835 a labourer was digging a field just outside the English seaside town of Margate. His work was interrupted when he thrust his spade in to the soil and it vanished into the g...

November 23, 2016

This castle in Tuscany, Italy, built in 1605, is like something from a folktale! From the stunning variety of tile mosaics to the arched Moorish doorways, this pa...

November 11, 2016

Once a booming mining camp, Bodie, California, just east of the Sierra Nevada mountains, is now a perfectly preserved time capsule of life in the early 20th centu...

November 9, 2016

For thousands of years, a community of Inupiat people lived, survived and thrived in one of the harshest environments in the world - King Island. And these are the im...

October 30, 2016

Johnsonville, Connecticut may be completely void of human inhabitants at present, but a few licks of paint and a good spring clean you could be calling it home in no time! The to...

October 25, 2016

Baiae was built on the Cumaean Peninsula, originally as a port. It became a luxurious resort town and a gateway for the elite towards the beginning of the Roman Empire. Baia was the hottes...

October 24, 2016

Even if you use New York’s subway system every day, you’ve probably never walked through the City Hall station. The subway has been closed since 1945 but was neve...

October 23, 2016

In the following days, we'll be creating an Abandoned Place series which will be about the history and stories of the places included in this list. Stay tuned! H/T Pinterest

October 23, 2016

The small ghost town of Cabin Creek, Colorado, once a bustling highway stop, is available for sale as of August 2016. The five-acre property, which is being offered for ...

October 16, 2016

During 19th century hundreds of resource-based towns rose rapidly across the American Wild West. Many of them abandoned almost as rapidly as they rose. 1. Bodie, California...

October 9, 2016

At one time the coal-mining settlement of Pyramiden, Norway had a population of over 1,000 residents and workers. It's population today? Six. In this short documentary, fil...

September 27, 2016

For fifteen years, retired Liverpudlian locals and curious volunteers have been digging up a vast network of 200 hundred-year old tunnels and cellar systems beneath t...

September 21, 2016

In Canada the small town of Kitsault lies frozen in time, completely abandoned by it's once 1,200 strong community. Kitsault has been left a ghost town for 30 years now and ...

August 1, 2016

In a small bay in Scotland, a well-kept secret is hidden among the green hills. For millennia, no one knew that this place ever existed. Time and weather buried ...

July 13, 2016

July 12, 2016

During its final years, Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong became the most densely populated place on earth with 50,000 people crammed into just a few city blocks. ...

June 27, 2016

In the outskirts of Shanghai, China stands a fake Eiffel Tower overlooking a replica of the Champ de Mars and rows of Parisian townhouses. Behold the gated community of Tian...

June 22, 2016

Called the Navarro Flats, this massive fortress of Gilded-Age extravagance was built on Central Park South at Seventh Avenue in the mid-1880s. The Navarro Flat...

May 19, 2016

In the town of Les Trois-Moutiers in France, located roughly 200 miles southwest of Paris, stands Chateau de la Motte-Chandenier.  The Chateau de la Mothe-Chanden...

April 25, 2016

There’s something about abandoned places that oddly fascinates me. Perhaps it’s the story they tell, like the story of the now-abandoned city of East St. Louis, I...