They say the only constant in life is change. History literature is one way to understand the passage of time, but there are also tangible monuments that can tell a lot about past times. And if some such places are looked after and cared for, sometimes the most interesting are those that have been neglected for a long time. We bring to your attention several abandoned places around the world, each of which has its own special charm.

Beneath all this dust, rust and cracks lie the stories of people who once lived here, prayed, and went about their daily business. And when you try to imagine these people and their lives, a special atmosphere and nostalgia is born. It seems as if people just recently packed up their things and left the abandoned places. On the other hand, it is interesting to see how some things that once belonged to people are now being returned to nature.

This is part of the cooling tower of an abandoned power plant in Monceau, Belgium. The funnel-shaped structure of an abandoned place in the center served hot water, which then cooled as it drained into hundreds of small concrete gutters.

Kolmanskop, Namibia

This is a small abandoned settlement in Namibia that flourished in the early 1900s. Then German settlers began mining diamonds here. The flow of funds ended after World War I, when the diamond field began to deplete. By the 1950s, the city was completely abandoned by people, and now only photographers and tourists come to this abandoned place.

Floating forest in Sydney

This is the hull of the large steamship SS Ayrfield, which was dismantled at Homebush Bay, Australia, after World War II. But when the shipyard closed, this ship, like several others, remained where they were abandoned. Now an abandoned place, a beautiful and mysterious floating forest that serves as an example that nature can survive always and everywhere.

Munsell Sea Forts, England

These forts were built near the mouths of the Thames and Mersey rivers in Great Britain to protect the country from a potential German air threat during World War II. When they were decommissioned in 1950, several people lived here, including operators of pirate radio stations, and was also home to the Principality of Sealand, a self-proclaimed independent state.

Last house on Holland Island, USA

This house is an abandoned place that was once part of a fairly successful island colony in the Chesapeake Bay in the United States. However, due to rapid soil erosion, there was less and less space left on the island. The house pictured was the last one on the island before it collapsed in 2010.

Pripyat, Ukraine. Pripyat is an abandoned city in the north of Ukraine, in the Kyiv region

The city is located on the banks of the Pripyat River, 3 km from the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, not far from the border with Belarus. Distance to Kyiv - 94 km. Abandoned place Pripyat was founded on February 4, 1970. The general reason for the founding of the city was the construction and subsequent operation of one of the largest in Europe nuclear power plants, Chernobyl - the city-forming enterprise, which gave Pripyat the title of the city of nuclear scientists. Pripyat became the ninth nuclear city in the Soviet Union.

Many workers of the Chernobyl station, whose work ended, lived in Pripyat major disaster in 1986. After the evacuation, Pripyat remains a radioactive ghost town, which can only be visited with specialized escorts.

House of the Bulgarian Communist Party

The former building of a monument house built in the 1980s in honor of the Bulgarian communist party, today it looks creepy both inside and outside. This abandoned place, similar to a flying saucer, fell into disrepair after the collapse of the USSR. Now it is just a ghost of the former structure, although there is talk of starting restoration work.

Nara Dreamland Amusement Park, Japan

The park opened in 1961. But by 2006 it was already closed. It is now a popular abandoned site among city explorers, although security guards periodically patrol the area and issue fines to trespassers who enter the restricted area.

Uninhabited island in southeast Florida, USA

These abandoned sites are small dome-shaped structures that were built in 1981 at Cape Romano, off the coast of the United States. They were a summer residence oil tycoon Bob Lee, but then fell into disrepair. It is still unclear what fate awaits them.

Abandoned mill, Italy

This building in the Valley of Mills in Sorrento was abandoned in 1866. Wheat was once ground here, and there was a sawmill nearby. The abandoned site was isolated from the sea after the construction of Tasso Square, which increased humidity levels in the region and forced the mill to be abandoned.

Michigan Central Station in Detroit, USA

The station was built in 1913 to create a new transport hub. However, several construction errors meant that the abandoned site had to be closed in 1988.

The fate of the station has not yet been decided, but it has appeared in several films, for example, in Eminem’s 8 Mile.

Sunken yacht, Antarctica

This eerie ghost ship is the Mar Sem Fim, a Brazilian yacht that sank near Ardley Cove in Antarctica. On a yacht, a Brazilian film crew decided to film documentary, however due to strong winds and the storm had to leave her. The water that entered the ship froze, pierced the hull and sank the yacht.

Abandoned theater New Bedford, USA

This is an old theater in Massachusetts. It opened in 1912 and closed in 1959. Since then, it has already been a tobacco warehouse and a supermarket. The nonprofit is now trying to raise funds to renovate the building.

Abandoned train station, Abkhazia

This station in Sukhumi was abandoned during the war in Abkhazia in 1992 and 1993. As a result of the conflict between Georgia and Russia, the region was abandoned, but the station still retains traces of its former grandeur, such as the stunning stucco work.

Abandoned wooden houses, Russia

All these exquisitely decorated buildings are located in the Russian outback. Some of them are surrounded by forests.

It is thanks to their remoteness that they remained untouched.

Underwater city in Shichen, China

This incredible underwater city, lost in time, is 1341 years old. Shichen, or Lion City, is located in Zhejiang Province in eastern China. It was flooded in 1959 during the construction of a hydroelectric power station. The water protects the city from erosion by wind and rain, so it remains in relatively good condition.

Abandoned subway station in New York, USA

This beautiful subway station is located directly under New York City Hall. That's why a lot of attention was paid to its design, but due to neighboring stations it never received the attention it deserved from the public, and its curved route was considered insufficiently safe. The station closed in 1945 and remains closed except for a few exclusive tours for tourists.

Hotel Salto, Colombia

The hotel opened in 1928 near the Tequendama Falls in Colombia to serve tourists who came to admire the 157-meter waterfall. The hotel was closed in the early 90s after interest in the waterfall waned. But in 2012 this place was turned into a museum.

Abandoned metro tunnel in Kyiv, Ukraine

This photo was taken in the metro near Kiev. Many of the tunnels are partially flooded and stalactites hang from the ceilings.

Abandoned submarine base in Balaklava, Ukraine

Although this base is not completely abandoned, it is still impressive. Before its closure in 1993, it was one of the most secret bases on the territory of the USSR. Today it is the State Maritime Museum.

Abandoned military hospital in Belitz, Germany

This large hospital complex would have been built in the late 1800s. It featured Adolf Hitler recovering from a leg injury suffered during the Battle of the Somme in 1916. Some parts of the complex are still operational, but most were abandoned after Russian authorities left the hospital in 1995.

Hashima Island, Japan

This island goes by many names, including Warship (due to its shape) and Ghost Island. From the late 1800s to the late 1900s, the island was inhabited because it provided access to underwater coal mines.

However, as Japan gradually transitioned from coal to gasoline, the mines (and the buildings that sprang up around them) closed, leaving behind a ghost island resembling part of a ghostly warship.

UFO houses in San Zhi, Taiwan

These alien houses in Sanzhi were originally intended to be resort lodges, particularly for American military officers serving in Asia. However, due to low investment and machine accidents, the site had to be closed in 1980, shortly after it was built. Unfortunately, these amazing buildings were demolished in 2010.

Abandoned church in the snow.

All these places were once filled with people living their lives. Abandoned for various reasons, they now look like ghost towns or horror movie sets. The mysterious mood of these places makes you feel fear, curiosity and delight at the same time. Only the bravest can dare to visit such a place!

Ghost Town of Bodie, California, USA

The now abandoned city was founded in 1876, when miners discovered rich reserves of gold and silver here. In search of wealth and better life people were traveling to a small town.
It soon gained a reputation as a "sin city", full of brothels and bars. Residents went bankrupt, and by the forties of the twentieth century, Bodie became a ghost town. It is now considered one of the best preserved towns of its type in the world.

Prison in Pennsylvania, USA

This prison was used from 1829 until 1971. Even the most famous criminals in America ended up here; for example, Al Capone was kept here.
After the prison was closed, it became a state landmark and museum, open for guided tours and exhibitions.

Railway station in Częstochowa, Poland

The railway system in Częstochowa in southern Poland was created during the golden years of industrial development. These days, this abandoned station represents one of the most mysterious places in Europe.

Ghost Tower in Sathorn, Thailand

In the early nineties, Thailand experienced the largest economic boom in history. At this time, authorities and businessmen demonstrated stability; financial success led to the emergence of many ambitious construction projects, including a skyscraper in Sathorn.
However, the Asian financial crisis soon occurred and the Thai economy was destroyed. Continued construction was cancelled.
On this moment further fate building remains unknown: reconstructing it will cost more than building a new one. In addition, the tower has a reputation as a place inhabited by ghosts.

North Brother Island, USA

From 1885 until the end of the thirties of the twentieth century, Riverside Hospital treated diseases requiring quarantine: measles, typhoid, scarlet fever, leprosy. After this, the center was used to rehabilitate people with heroin addiction.
In 1963 it was closed. Now no one lives on the island except birds. The hospital building is still there, but could collapse at any moment, with all the windows broken and paint peeling off the walls.

Devil's Mountain, Germany

This reminder of a bygone era is located on the top of a mountain in west Berlin. There was once a Nazi place here military school. After several unsuccessful attempts to blow up the building, the Allies decided to fill it with debris left over from the bombing.
After the fall of the Berlin Wall, the abandoned building had many owners. Among them was even David Lynch, who wanted to organize yoga courses here. The Berlin authorities refused this proposal.

Miranda Castle, Belgium

During the French Revolution, Count Liedekerke-Beaufort, a Belgian political activist, was forced to leave the castle with his family. They moved to a farm nearby.
After World War II and until the end of the eighties, the castle belonged to the state railway company and was used first as a shelter, and then as Kid `s camp. In 1991, due to high cost maintenance, the castle was abandoned.

Kijong-Dong, North Korea

It seems that this Korean village was purposely built to remain empty and uninhabited. It is located near the border with South Korea. After the conflict in 1953, the government North Korea decided to use the village as a propaganda tool: it is the only one visible from the southern territory, which means everything should look perfect.
The authorities say that ordinary residents live in the village, but there is not even glass in the windows. In the evenings, the lights come on in all rooms at the same time. This is a fake village!

Fordlandia, Brazil

This place was founded by American entrepreneur Henry Ford in 1927 when he began his urban project. There was to be a rubber tree plantation that would extend into the Amazon rainforest. Ford came up with the idea of ​​a corporate city with all the amenities, swimming pools, golf courses, bungalows and even a place to dance.
However, local residents did not accept the idea and refused to accept the ban on alcohol. Brazilian workers and American industrialists found themselves in conflict situation. In 1930, a riot broke out in one of the cafeterias. The cars were thrown into the river and the managers were driven away. After this, the city was abandoned forever.

Abandoned cinema, Sinai desert

Locals say the cinema was built by a wealthy Frenchman who was walking in the desert with friends and thought the only thing he was missing was a movie. He bought a generator, a hundred chairs and a huge screen in Cairo. Everything was ready for display, but local residents did not like the idea at all. They broke the generator and it was all over before it could have started. As a result, in the heart of the desert there is still a white screen on which not a single film has been shown.

Varosha, Cyprus

In the early seventies of the last century, Varosha was a popular tourist area with luxurious beaches where celebrities and millionaires vacationed. At that time, Cyprus was loved by Brigitte Bardot and Elizabeth Taylor.
Everything changed in August 1974, when Turkey captured and occupied the northern part of the island. Fifteen thousand residents of the area fled from the invaders, leaving their homes. Many planned to return, but the political situation did not allow them to do so.

Abandoned hotel, Colombia

The once luxurious Hotel Del Salto, located near the waterfall, was built in 1924. Over time, the Bogota River became more and more polluted, and as a result, tourists gradually lost interest in the region.
In addition, many suicides choose this picturesque place, so the hotel is now considered haunted.

Discovery Island, USA

This island was an amusement park.
One day, a dangerous bacterium was found in the waters of the lake, and in July 1999 the park was closed. It has remained abandoned since then.

Holy Land Experience Park, USA

In 1958, John Greco built a religious theme park in Connecticut. It was quite popular in the sixties and seventies, with more than forty thousand people coming here every year.
In 1982, Greco decided to temporarily close the park for reconstruction and expansion, but he died and the park was never reopened.

Orpheum Theater, USA

This is an abandoned theater in Massachusetts. It was opened in 1912, and in 1959 it was already closed. Nowadays a supermarket is located in the office premises, but most of it is simply empty. Charity organisations want to invest in New Bedford and bring a cultural landmark back to life.

American ship on the beach, Canary Islands

In the first days after the crash, the ship was still intact, so people even tried to climb aboard. Then the ship broke into two halves, and now it is not recommended to climb on it. It seems that the ship is very close, but it is surrounded by incredibly strong currents, in addition, sharp debris is hidden under the water. At least eight people died while trying to explore the area around the crash.

On our planet there are a huge number of ghost towns, empty and creepy, frightening a traveler who accidentally wanders here with the empty eye sockets of the windows of rickety buildings...
In this rating, we will present the 10 most famous abandoned cities, abandoned by people for various reasons: some were abandoned due to bloody wars, others were abandoned under the onslaught of almighty nature.

1. Buried in the sands of the city of Kolmanskop (Namibia)

Kolmanskop

Kolmanskop is an abandoned town in southern Namibia, located a few kilometers from the port of Lüderitz.
In 1908, railway company employee Zakaris Leval discovered small diamonds in the sand. This discovery caused a real diamond rush and thousands of people flocked to the hot sands of the Namib Desert, hoping to make a fortune.

Kolmanskop was built in record time. It took people only two years to erect beautiful German-style residential buildings in the desert, build a school, a hospital, and even a casino. But the days of the city's existence were already numbered.

After the end of the First World War, the price of diamonds on the world market fell, and every year production precious stones things were getting worse in the Kolmanskop mines. Absence drinking water and the constant struggle with sand dunes made the life of the people of the mining town more and more unbearable.

In the 1950s, the last inhabitants left Kolmanskop and it turned into another ghost town on the world map. Soon nature and the desert almost completely buried the town under sand dunes. Several other old houses and the theater building remained unburied, which is still in good condition.

2. The city of nuclear scientists Pripyat (Ukraine)

Pripyat is an abandoned city in the “exclusion zone” in northern Ukraine. Workers and scientists lived here Chernobyl nuclear power plant, until the tragic day - April 26, 1986. On this day, the explosion of the 4th power unit of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant put an end to the further existence of the city.

On April 27, the evacuation of people from Pripyat began. Nuclear workers and their families were allowed to take with them only the most necessary things and documents; people left all the property acquired over the years in their abandoned apartments. Over time, Pripyat turned into a ghost town, visited only by extreme sports and thrill-seekers.

For those who want to see and appreciate the full scale of the disaster, the Pripyat-Tour company provides excursions to the abandoned city. Due to the high level of radiation, you can safely stay here for no more than a few hours, and most likely, Pripyat will remain a dead city forever.

3. Futuristic resort city of San Zhi (Taiwan)

In the north of Taiwan, not far from the capital of the state, Taipei, there is the ghost town of San Zhi. According to the developers, buying these houses should have been very wealthy people, because the architecture of the buildings itself, made in a futuristic style, was so unusual and revolutionary that it should have attracted big number rich customers.

But during the construction of the city, inexplicable accidents began to occur here and every week there were more and more of them, until the deaths of workers began to happen every day. Rumor quickly spread the news about the bad city, which had a very bad effect on the city's reputation for the rich.

The construction was finally completed and even a grand opening was held, but none of the potential clients bought a home here. Mass did not help advertising companies, nor huge discounts, San Zhi has become a new ghost town. Now access here is prohibited, and local residents believe that the city is inhabited by the ghosts of people who died here.

4. Medieval city of Craco (Italy)

About forty kilometers from the Gulf of Taranto in Italy, lies the abandoned ancient city of Craco. Situated on picturesque hills, it was the patrimony of farmers and plowmen, its inhabitants were engaged in agriculture, grew wheat and other grain crops.

The first mention of the city dates back to 1060, when all the land was owned by the Catholic Archbishop Arnaldo.
In 1981, the population of Craco was just over 2,000 people, and since 1982, due to poor harvests, landslides and constant collapses, the town's population began to decline rapidly. Between 1892 and 1922, more than 1,300 people left Craco. Some left to seek happiness in America, others settled in neighboring cities and villages.

The city was finally abandoned after a strong earthquake in 1963, only a few residents remained to while away their lives in a new ghost town. By the way, it was here that Mel Gibson filmed the scene of the execution of Judas for his masterpiece film “The Passion of the Christ.”

5. The village of Oradour-sur-Glane (France) - a memorial reminiscent of the horrors of fascism

The small ruined village of Oradour-sur-Glane in France stands as a reminder of the monstrous atrocities of the Nazis. During World War II, 642 village residents were brutally murdered by the Nazis as punishment for the capture of SS Sturmbannführer Helmut Kampf by French resistance fighters.

According to one version, the Nazis simply confused villages with similar names.
The high-ranking fascist was in captivity in the neighboring village of Oradour-sur-Vaires. The Germans did not spare anyone - neither the elderly, nor women, nor children... They drove the men to barns, where they targeted their legs with machine guns, then doused them with a flammable mixture and set them on fire.

Women, children and the elderly were locked in the church, then a powerful incendiary device was detonated. People tried to get out of the burning building, but they were mercilessly shot by German machine gunners. Then the Nazis completely destroyed the village.

6. Forbidden Island Gankanjima (Japan)

Gankanjima Island is one of the 505 uninhabited islands in Nagasaki Prefecture, and is located just 15 km from Nagasaki itself. It is also called battleship island because of the walls that protect the city from the sea. The history of settlement of the island began in 1890, when coal was discovered here. The Mitsubishi company bought the entire territory and began implementing a project to extract coal from the bottom of the sea.

In 1916, the first large concrete building was built on the island, and then buildings began to grow like mushrooms after rain. And in 1959, the population of the island had grown so much that 835 people lived here on one hectare! This was a world record for population density.

In the early 1960s, oil in Japan increasingly began to replace coal in production, and its production became unprofitable. Coal mines began to close across the country, and the Gankandjima mines were no exception.

In 1974, Mitsubishi officially announced the closure of the mines and the cessation of all activities on the island. Gankanjima has become another abandoned ghost town. Currently, visiting the island is prohibited, and in 2003, the famous Japanese action film “Battle Royale” was filmed here.

7. Kadykchan - a village in the Magadan region

Kadykchan is an urban-type settlement, located in the Susumansky district Magadan region. One of the most famous abandoned northern villages on the Internet. In 1986, according to the census, 10,270 people lived here, and in 2002 - only 875. In Soviet time Here coal of the highest quality was mined, which was used to heat almost 2/3 of the Magadan region.

The population of Kadykchan began to rapidly decrease after a mine explosion in 1996. A few years later, the only boiler house heating the village defrosted, and it became simply impossible to live here.

Now it is just a ghost town, one of many in Russia. There are rusty cars in the garages, destroyed furniture, books and children's toys in the rooms. Finally, leaving the dying village, the residents shot the bust of V.I. Lenin installed in the square.

8. The walled city of Kowloon (Hong Kong) - a city of lawlessness and anarchy

One of the most incredible ghost towns, now no longer existing, is the city of Kowloon, which was located near the former Kai Tak Airport, a city where all the vices and base passions of humanity were embodied. In the 1980s, more than 50,000 people lived here.
Probably, there was no longer a place on the planet where prostitution, drug addiction, gambling and underground workshops were widespread.

It was practically impossible to take a step here without bumping into a drug addict pumped up on dope, or a prostitute offering her services for a pittance. The Hong Kong authorities practically did not govern the city; here was the most high level crime in the country.

Eventually, in 1993, Kowloon's entire population was evicted and it briefly became a ghost town. The incredible and creepy settlement was then demolished, and in its place a park of the same name was laid out.

9. Abandoned ghost town of Varosha (Cyprus)

Varosha is a district of Famagusta, a city in Northern Cyprus founded in the 3rd century AD. Until 1974, Varosha was a real “Mecca” for lovers beach holiday. Thousands of tourists from all over the world flocked here to bask in the gentle rays of the Cypriot sun. They say that the Germans and British made reservations in luxury hotels 20 years in advance!

The resort flourished, with new hotels and villas built up, until everything changed in 1974. That year, the Turks invaded Varosha with NATO support to protect the Turkish minority Cypriot population from being persecuted by ethnic Greeks.

Since then, the Varosha quarter has become a ghost town, surrounded by barbed wire, where the Turkish military has not allowed anyone to enter for four decades. The houses are dilapidated, the windows are broken and the streets of the once lively quarter are in widespread devastation. The apartments and shops are empty and completely looted, first by the Turkish military and then by local looters.

10. Lost city of Agdam (Azerbaijan)

Agdam is a city once famous for its wine throughout Soviet Union, from now on dead and uninhabited... The war in Nagorno-Karabakh, which lasted from 1990 to 1994, did not give the lowland city a chance to exist, where they used to make excellent cheese and make the best port wine in the Union.
The collapse of the USSR led to the outbreak of hostilities in many former republics.

Azerbaijan did not escape this either, whose warriors were able to seize wagons with rockets located near Agdam. They turned out to be very convenient to bomb the Armenian Stepanakert. Such actions ultimately led to a sad ending.

In the summer of 1993, Agdam was surrounded by 6,000 Liberation Army soldiers Nagorno-Karabakh. With the support of helicopters and tanks, the Armenians practically wiped out the hated city from the face of the earth, and carefully mined the approaches to it. Therefore, to this day, visiting the ghost town of Agdam is unsafe for life.

In our amazing world every traveler will find something to see. Lovers of beauty simply must take a look at beautiful abandoned places, and lovers of thrills must discover scary sights that excite the blood. We invite you to go with us to the islands, among which there are both beautiful and scary ones. There are legends about them; scenes from horror or beautiful films are filmed here. And the good news is that there are many such places, and they are all unique.

Many of us sincerely believe that horror elements can only be seen on the TV screen, well, at least, at Halloween celebrations. However, there are many places in the world that just look chilling. It is impossible to remain indifferent to them: you are either afraid of them, or visiting such an area becomes main goal life. If you are a thrill-seeker, sit back and go with us on a creepy journey called the scariest.

California - Winchester House

This huge house is located in San Jose, consists of 40 stairs, 160 rooms and a secret covered in darkness.

The inhabitants of the estate were strange, to put it mildly: a crazy widow lived here with a family of ghosts.

The history of this mansion began from the moment when owner Sarah Winchester lost her beloved rich husband, having inherited a multimillion-dollar fortune. After death, the spirit of her deceased husband appeared to her and told her a terrible secret about how he made money.

According to him, he built all his wealth on human bones, so their entire family is cursed, and ghosts will take revenge on them until death. Adding fuel to the fire, a fortune teller told Sarah that the spirits of every person killed with Winchesters purchased from her husband's weapons company would appear to her.

But in all this hell there was a thin straw of salvation - Sarah had to make peace and try to make friends with the ghosts. To do this, it was necessary to start building the house and not stop, because if the hammering ceases, Sarah will die. Thus began the construction of a house that was not to be completed throughout the widow’s life.

First of all, the poor woman bought an old mansion in California and hired workers. The house grew like mushrooms after rain. According to Miss Winchester's plan, secret passages, corridors, and balconies began to appear in it. Stairs usually led to nowhere to confuse the ghosts that haunted Sarah, whom she was deathly afraid of. The construction of the mansion did not stop for more than a day, but this madness lasted for 38 long years!

Today this abandoned place is open to tourists, but you can enter here on the condition that you do not leave the group, otherwise you will simply get lost in the creepy labyrinths. They say ghosts are still waiting for their victims.

Poisonous Danakil Desert

Ethiopian Danakil Desert. If you go there, it will be the scariest trip of your life! There is no such landscape anywhere else, probably not even in real hell.

Once you find yourself here, you are unlikely to want to fly to Mars, since it feels like being in space. You simply feel a catastrophic lack of oxygen, it becomes difficult to breathe, but there is an abundance of stinking, burning gases that are born under your feet in the volcanic surface with floating stones.

Traveling here, tourists in literally words shorten their life. Heat + 50 degrees, the danger of stepping on an awakening volcano and being cooked in its red lava, inhaling sulfur vapor for the rest of your life and making it short - all these risks are present here. Moreover, in the struggle for water and food, semi-wild tribes of the Afar region often lie in wait for tourists here, who, as a rule, are armed and hungry. They can be an unpleasant addition to the unearthly beauty of the Danakil Desert.

Suicide Forest

The Danakil Desert is an eerie abandoned place, and there is nothing like it in the world. It is located at the foot of Mount Fuji, which is considered sacred.

This gloomy place differs from the forest we are used to in that they do not come here to pick mushrooms and berries, they do not barbecue here or relax with their family, but they come to say goodbye to life. For these purposes, it was chosen by authentic Japanese suicides.

They began to go into the forest forever in the early 1950s. Less than half a century had passed, and the number of people who died in the forest reached 500 people who voluntarily said goodbye to life. Rumor has it that the fashion for dying in the forest came to the general public after the publication of the book “The Black Sea of ​​Trees” by the author Seiko Matsumoto, in the plot of which two volunteers went to this forest in order to hang themselves. They walked holding hands...

The forest is so shady and gloomy that even on a sunny day it’s easy to find a scary corner here, shrouded in grave gloom, to make your dirty business. In addition to skulls, corpses and bones, here you can find shields like “Think about your loved ones!” or “Think one last time!”

The problem of suicide in the forest became national in 1970. Since then, the government sends units there every year to clear the forest of “fresh” dead.

The area of ​​the Aokigahara forest is 35 square meters. m. For about a year, 50-100 corpses “mature” on the trees, depending on how “fruitful” the year was.

The bridge is a four-legged killer

The Killer Arch Bridge is located near the Scottish village of Milton; more precisely, it is located near the Overtoun mansion, which has become a haven for ghosts.

Mystical events take place on this bridge, and they were often associated with a gloomy house, however, as it turned out later, it was not the mansion, but the bridge itself. Strange events began to occur on it in the mid-twentieth century. Dozens of dogs threw themselves from a height of fifteen meters and fell to their deaths; the survivors still repeated their attempt to jump from the bridge.

Even veterinarians and zoologists could not figure out what drove them to such actions, but the most interesting thing was that they all jumped from the same parapet.

During this time, many hypotheses were put forward. They said that perhaps the dogs were driven by the hunting instinct, and they rushed at the rats and minks living below. Others suspect that the bridge is located on the border of two worlds: the living and the dead, and the dogs smell the “smell” of the paranormal, follow the trail, and pay for their curiosity with death. Perhaps you know the secret of the Overtown Bridge?

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Beautiful abandoned places

Except creepy places, exciting our consciousness, there are also beautiful abandoned places in the world that are difficult to look away from. Despite their beauty, they evoke a feeling of pity, since they are abandoned and seem to be of no use to anyone. But in reality this is not so - hundreds of tourists come to look at them.

Italy, San Fruttuoso: Christ from the Abyss

This is one of the most beautiful abandoned places under water. The bronze statue of Christ is so realistic that hundreds of people come to San Fruttuoso to look at it at least once in their lives.

But we’ll immediately warn you that only those who love diving can see it, since the statue is located underwater in an Italian bay. Duilio Marcante erected a bronze sculpture in honor of his friend who died at sea - Italy's first scuba diver Dario Gonzatti. And it was created by the talented sculptor Guido Galetti. The height of the masterpiece is 2.5 m, it is installed at a depth of 17 m, so seeing it is not as easy as it seems. But those who were lucky enough to look at the grandiose statue will not be able to forget its noble, blessing image.

Japan, Gulliver's Adventure park

Gulliver's Adventure is another place that can be classified as one of the most beautiful abandoned places in the world. The theme park is located in Japan, in Kawaguchi, and was created according to the idea of ​​the local government to revitalize the leisure time of local residents.

But for some reason the project was not profitable and lasted only 4 years, after which it “successfully” went bankrupt. It has not been operating since 2001, but its main attraction, the 45 m long Gulliver sculpture, attracts tourists not only from Japan, but also from other countries of the world.

There are guesses that the park was closed due to the fact that there was little entertainment here: besides the sculpture, there was only a steam locomotive and several ordinary carousels, but no one knows what it really was like.

Abandoned and beautiful

It is worth noting that there are many beautiful abandoned places in the world where, however, many of these “pearls of the world” are open to visitors. The list of the most mysterious abandoned places includes the following:

• The city of Kolmanskop (Namibia desert);
• Dome houses in Florida, which have long been abandoned by people;
• 15th century monastery in Germany (in the Black Fortress);
• Bodiam Castle (England);
• Dead City of Keelung (Taiwan);
• Tunnel of Love (Ukraine).

The most terrible abandoned places

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website with bated breath, presents a selection of the most mysterious places on the planet that evoke quiet horror and interest at the same time.

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 a height (even with safety ropes), and died under collapsed cranes. The surrounding residents were sure that the town was inhabited 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, which is located in the small town of Lier, half an hour 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 products of enterprises were inexpensive: there were no taxes, and labor legislation local entrepreneurs did not comply. We had our 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.