Abandoned buildings — mystical places on the map
Houses, hospitals, factories and whole towns that people left and never came back to. Some closed overnight on an order, some simply stopped being needed — and wherever the owners' belongings are still lying about, stories about the ones who supposedly stayed are never far behind.
27 places
Hashima Island
A tiny island off Nagasaki, packed with concrete apartment blocks for coal miners and abandoned in 1974 when the mine closed. Its silhouette earned it the nickname Gunkanjima — "Battleship Island".
Pripyat
Pripyat is an abandoned city of regional significance situated in the Vyshhorod Raion of Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine, along the banks of the Pripyat River roughly 3 kilometers from the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant (ChNPP) and 16 kilometers from the border with Belarus. Founded in February 1970 as the ninth Soviet "atomgrad" (atomic company town) for power plant personnel, the municipality was completely evacuated on April 27, 1986, following the catastrophic explosion of ChNPP Reactor No. 4. Housing nearly 50,000 residents at the time of the disaster, Pripyat became the world's premier modern ghost town, serving as an open-air monument to industrial failure, a frozen time capsule of late-Soviet urban planning, and the ground zero of global urban exploration culture.
Кольманскоп
Заброшенный алмазный посёлок в пустыне Намиб, основанный немцами в начале XX века и покинутый к 1950-м. Дома по самые окна занесены песком — пустыня медленно поглощает город.