The most mysterious ghost towns on earth

These towns are not a shadow, the air is cold and murky, making you cold when you arrive.

Bodie town, California, USA

Bodie town, California, USA

This is the most famous ghost town in America , located east of San Francisco. Before becoming a ghost town, this city was a prosperous settlement with many gold mines and precious metals that attracted many gold operators throughout the United States. This forces local residents to leave their homes and move to other areas to make room for gold mining. However, nothing exists forever, the gold mine becomes exhausted, more and more people start to leave. In 1932 there was a terrible fire, destroying the whole town and gold mining companies.

Kolmanskop town

After a German architect left Kolmanskop town in 1954, the town was abandoned so far.

Kolmanskop town is in the desert in Namibia, once a prosperous diamond mining area. However, the town has been abandoned for decades and the houses here are gradually submerged by sand.

Michigan Central Station, USA

Michigan Central Station, USA

At the time of construction in 1912, Michigan Central Station was the tallest station in the world. This is a symbolic work, especially meaningful to the people of Detroit, but soon "prematurely" because shortly after it was put into operation, this huge project was no longer requisitioned. Along with that, over time, infrastructure degradation has caused Michigan Central Station to be chosen as the location for filming.

Gunkajima island city, Japan

Gunkajima island city, Japan

There were more than 10,000 people who lived in this island city until the 1970s. Once once was Mitsubishi Motors' coal mining facility, but now the city is abandoned, making it one of the The most deserted place in the world. Gunkanjima's real name is Hashima - one of 505 uninhabited islands in Nagasakia district, the west coast of Japan.

Pripyat town, Ukraine

Abandoned immediately after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.

Pripyat was abandoned a few days after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986, leaving 15 schools, a hospital, a railway track and a park sunk into oblivion.

San Zhi Town, Taiwan

San Zhi Town, Taiwan.

San Zhi town started construction in early 1980, according to the latest concept, has unique architecture as an extremely modern city for the rich. However, due to some problems that occurred in the city hindering construction, especially because of the large number of accidents, as well as the lack of funds, the project stopped . Although most The buildings have been formed but today, the city has no one to live, the old buildings, the moss create a strange and strange feeling.

Varosha Beach, Island of Cyprus (Cyprus)

Varosha Beach, Cyprus

Once the beach is famous for resorts often receiving VIP guests, including one-time fiery peach Brigitte Bardot but today Varosha has been completely abandoned.

Since the Turks took over part of Cyprus in 1974, Varosha residents have left and never returned. Houses, resorts, hotels, restaurants and abandoned beaches have no one to touch.

Yashima Town, Japan

Yashima Town, Japan

The town of Yashima has a long history, which is the place where famous battles were fought in 1185 during the Gempei War. This town is famous for its ancient temple, in the 1980s, this place was a popular tourist attraction. A fund is invested for the construction of hotels, shops and other tourism facilities. But suddenly the number of tourists coming here is declining, which is why people cancel all construction projects that turn this place into a ghost town.

Lake Reschen Church, Italy

Lake Reschen Church, Italy

In the early 1940s, Italy's Montecatini electric company built a dam to capture power from two large lakes Rescehn and Mitter. But due to inaccurate calculations, the dam brought water and submerged a village and a church around it. The church bell tower built in the 14th century is the only thing left to be seen. The church was largely destroyed before Graun village was sunk, but the bell tower was retained and stood there to this day, proudly rising out of the water. The miracle is that people can still hear the bell ringing during the winter, when the lake is covered with ice.

Kalyazin bell tower, Russia

Kalyazin bell tower

Kalyazin bell tower is part of the monastery of St. Nicholas, built between 1796 and 1800. This tower is considered a remnant of an ancient Russia that disappeared after the revolutionary period. In 1939, a reservoir built in this area made the monastery almost completely destroyed. However, when tourists became interested in admiring this rare relic, the Government built a pillar for the tower and made a small island around the tower so that small boats could respond.

Town of Krakow, Italy

Town of Krakow, Italy

This town used to be this beautiful place, inhabited by more than 2,000 people. But over time, the town became desolate due to devastating war, poor and backward agriculture, so the people left all and especially the earthquakes more and more.

Balestrino Village, Italy

Balestrino Village, Italy

Admiring the wonderful beauty of this village, no one thought it was abandoned long ago. Balestrino used to be very prosperous in the 12th century, famous for its beautiful olive growing fields. However, in the late 19th century, a series of strong earthquakes occurred, seriously threatening the architecture of the houses.

Balestrino residents quickly left in 1953, leaving a beautiful architectural complex on the mountain side without knowing when it would collapse.

Oradour-sur-Glane town, France

Oradour-sur-Glane town, France

The town of Oradour-sur-Glane, France is one of the most macabre " ghost " towns in the world when the Nazis murdered all locals due to suspicion of Hitler's soldiers being held there. Therefore, after just one night, Oradour-sur-Glane became a ghost town, without a shadow.