Green level — mystical places on the map
Real places with nothing on their record — nothing that is reported to have happened to anybody. A history, a rumour, an atmosphere, a building with a past: the story is about the place itself rather than about what it does to whoever walks in. Most of the catalogue sits here, and that is the honest answer rather than a dull one.
138 placesAbout the danger levels
Tunguska Event
In June 1908 an explosion over the Siberian taiga flattened some 80 million trees across more than 2,000 km². No crater was ever found, and the cause has been argued over for more than a century.
Area 51
A closed US Air Force range in the Nevada desert that officially did not exist for decades. Secret aircraft testing and total secrecy made it the centre of global UFO mythology.
Plymouth
Plymouth is an abandoned ghost city situated along the southwestern coast of the island of Montserrat, a British Overseas Territory in the Leeward Islands of the Caribbean Sea. Historically the island's capital, primary commercial center, and port, the municipality was systematically destroyed and buried beneath meters of volcanic ash, pumice, and catastrophic lahars during the 1995–1997 eruptions of the Soufrière Hills stratovolcano. Plymouth holds a unique global geopolitical status: it remains the world's only de jure official capital that is completely uninhabited de facto, earning the international designation of "the Pompeii of the Caribbean."
Beelitz-Heilstätten
A vast hospital complex outside Berlin, built around 1900 for tuberculosis patients. A wounded Hitler was treated here in 1916; parts of the site have stood empty since the 1990s and are green inside.
Buzludzha Monument
A concrete "flying saucer" on a Bulgarian mountaintop — the Bulgarian Communist Party's monument house, opened in 1981 and abandoned after 1989. Inside, its mosaics are crumbling and sky shows through the dome.
Belchite
A Spanish town destroyed in heavy fighting during the Civil War in 1937. A new Belchite was built alongside, and the old ruins were deliberately left as they were — scorched churches and bullet-pocked walls.
Centralia
Centralia is a near-total ghost town and borough in Columbia County, Pennsylvania, United States, situated at the core of the state's historic Anthracite Coal Region. Established in the mid-19th century atop rich deposits of high-grade anthracite coal, Centralia became the site of an uncontrollable subterranean mine fire in May 1962. Smoldering through interconnected underground shafts across hundreds of acres, the fire caused extensive surface fissures, toxic gas venting, and the federal condemnation and buyout of the municipality, transforming Centralia into America's most iconic modern ghost town and the direct real-world inspiration for the film adaptation of Silent Hill.
Varosha
A resort quarter of Famagusta, Cyprus, hastily abandoned in 1974 and fenced off. For half a century its beachfront hotels have been crumbling behind barbed wire.
Oradour-sur-Glane
Oradour-sur-Glane is a preserved ghost village and national memorial located in the Haute-Vienne department of Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France, situated along the Glane River roughly 22 kilometers northwest of Limoges. On June 10, 1944, the tranquil rural community was systematically liquidated by the 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich, who massacred 643 civilians (including 247 women and 205 children) before putting every structure to the torch. Following the liberation, French Provisional Government President Charles de Gaulle decreed that the skeletal ruins remain entirely untouched as an open-air national shrine and enduring monument to Nazi wartime atrocities against civilian populations.
Kayaköy
A Greek village in south-western Turkey, emptied by the 1923 population exchange between Greece and Turkey. Several hundred roofless houses and two churches have stood untouched on the hillside for a century.
Craco
A medieval town on a rocky ridge in Basilicata, abandoned in the 1960s–70s after landslides and an earthquake. Its empty stone houses and bell tower on a bare hill have repeatedly served as a film set.
Bodie
A California gold-rush town that peaked near 10,000 residents and emptied by the early 20th century. It is kept in a state of "arrested decay" — houses still hold the belongings their owners walked away from.
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".
Stonehenge
Stonehenge is a world-renowned prehistoric megalithic monument situated on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, southern England. Constructed between 3000 and 1500 BC, the earthwork and stone circle complex consists of an outer ring and inner horseshoe of massive sarsen silcrete monoliths joined by lintels via tongue-and-groove and mortise-and-tenon joints, along with smaller volcanic bluestones. Inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, it remains the ultimate archaeological icon of the British Isles, historically enveloped in folklore involving Celtic druids, the wizardry of Merlin, extraterrestrial beacons, and modern conspiratorial "1954 construction" hoaxes.
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.
Nazca Lines
Giant geoglyphs etched into the desert of southern Peru more than 1,500 years ago. The animal figures and geometric patterns are only fully legible from the air — their purpose is still unresolved.
Poveglia Island
An island in the Venetian Lagoon that served for centuries as a plague quarantine station and later a psychiatric hospital. Today it's abandoned and closed to casual visitors.
Hill of Crosses
A hill in northern Lithuania covered with hundreds of thousands of crosses left by pilgrims since the 19th century. Soviet authorities bulldozed it three times — the crosses reappeared within nights each time.