Abandoned Buildings Around the World That Whisper Forgotten Stories

Aug25,2025

The Ghost Town near Chernobyl Once home to thousands, it was abandoned after the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster.

Pripyat, Ukraine

The Battleship Island A coal mining facility turned ghost island, left deserted since the 1970s.

Hashima Island, Japan

A futuristic communist-era structure now standing in eerie ruin.

Buzludzha Monument, Bulgaria

A former diamond mining town slowly being swallowed by desert sands.

Kolmanskop, Namibia

An abandoned military hospital complex, once treating soldiers in both World Wars.

Beelitz-Heilstätten Hospital, Germany

Preserved in ruins after the massacre of its inhabitants during World War II.

Oradour-sur-Glane, France

A crumbling school left behind on the abandoned Hashima Island.

Gunkanjima School, Japan

Once a revolutionary prison in Philadelphia, now a chilling ruin open to visitors.

Eastern State Penitentiary, USA