12 MOST UNUSUAL & AMAZING ABANDONED PLACES IN THE WORLD

12 MOST UNUSUAL & AMAZING ABANDONED PLACES IN THE WORLD

ABANDONED PLACES IN THE WORLD

Something poetic and beautiful about abandoned buildings and places in the world with their stories which you have never seen before.

These are places that once teamed with life, but have now been forgotten and left to their own devices.

Like a moment to a time that is passed. The building's waiting for their owners and occupants to come back to them.

But nobody ever does. They're sad, but they're also somehow inspiring. Above all, they're fascinating to look at. Let’s take a look at some truly incredible examples.

If you've ever been to Sochi in Russia, you're probably already familiar with the ORS Hana kids sanatorium to call it a sanatorium feels like it's this beautiful old building that looks much more like a palace.

And it's heartbreaking that it's been abandoned. It's a huge expansive site, comprising four large buildings with Decorative columns, and commands a sense of grand opulence.

Although it's still used for photoshoots it's been largely abandoned since 2010 and is protected at all times by security guards.

The official line is that it's awaiting redevelopment, but there's been no sign of that redevelopment happening, and the almost 10 years it's been closed.

It started life in 1935 built as a health resort for VIPs by the order of Stalin himself. It's a shame that it's being allowed to slowly rot, but you can still get a sense of how stunning it used to be by looking at.

When a beautiful building is abandoned after years of use, it's sad when one is abandoned after never been used at all. It's an absolute tragedy.

The story of the Northern crown hotel in St. Petersburg is a strange and sad one.

When the foundation stones were laid back in 1988, it was envisioned as a destination hotel.

The builders were looking for five-star status and designed the rooms, the facilities and delivery with the richest and most prestigious of guests in mind.

Even now, 20 years later, trying to get a sense of wonder by gazing around the empty halls and corridors.

Not one single soul has ever spent a night in any of the 247 beautifully laid out rooms.

 Just as the project was approaching completion, the bank paying for the construction work, ran out of money and had to put the work on hold.

At the time it was around 90% finished that was in 1995. Ever since then, it's been left in this state of Half-life.

Perhaps what's most surprising is that nobody ever stepped in to finish it. It's now pending demolition, and an apartment complex will be built on the site instead.

The sunken village of Santilli and Crete is an example of what happens when development work doesn't take into account the well-being of people.

It was a small, thriving town, which had stood since the 14^th century and had a particularly ornate church at its heart.

It had one major design. It was 700 feet above sea level. That was probably enough to survive any natural disasters, but not high enough to avoid destruction when the apostle lemme dam was done shortly after the turn of the century.

14 years ago, the water levels rising, the residents had no option but to abandon their homes and start a new life elsewhere, ever since it's been slowly sinking beneath the tide.

During the recent drought, though the waters subsided just far enough to allow re entry to the old church.

Many of the villagers returned for one final mass and their former place of worship to say goodbye, soon it will be lost once more, perhaps never to resurface.

When the human race first establishes a colony on another world, it will probably look very much like the cosmic greenhouse in Germany.

The buildings here look like a futuristic moon base, which really explains why it's been nicknamed mission to Mars.

It looked like something from space when it was in use. But since it became abandoned, it's taken on an even more eerie tone with nature, slow growth through the glass domes.

We can't give you the exact location of this site. Its owners want to protect it from vandals and so the best way to ensure that is to make sure the details don't become public.

The first owner of mission to Mars was a monastery, but it became a gardening training center for the long term unemployed after it was sold in 1987.

It was the training centre which built the distinctive dome shaped greenhouses. By 2005 It was abandoned, although a small team of volunteers ensures that at least some basic gardening is still done there.

The city it's located in bought it outright in 2010, although they're yet to do anything with it in terms of refurbishment.

The idea of keeping an airbase underground sounds counterintuitive. Perhaps that's why these Java airbases in Bosnia didn't work out in the long term.

It's still a very noteworthy location though. It's the largest abandoned underground military airbase anywhere in Europe.

Bosnia wasn't even called Bosnia back when it was built. It was a product of the communist era in Yugoslavia.

Its purpose was to host the country's long range early warning radar system, but it also had a secondary purpose as a Defence Command Centre.

Virtually nobody knew it existed when control work was completed in the mid-1960s. Its very existence was a state secret.

The work wasn't cheap. If we adjust for inflation, it cost $6 billion era it was state of the art.

Military jets could be launched at a moment's notice from any of its four exit points and it was capable of withstanding a direct hit from a nuclear warhead.

The end of its usefulness came during the civil war in 1991, when military command decided it was better to destroy it than allow it to fall into the hands of any of the warring factions.

Jama Hall and Jaipur, India has taken to being submerged in water so well that it almost looks like a design feature.

Despite its good looks, this isn't how it's supposed to be. If you could see the whole building would appear even more impressive.

There are 4 whole levels below the water, even the name John Maha which translates to water Palace implies that the building and the man cigar Lake beneath it chose to be connected.

But the truth is the lake was made by human hands in 1596. As an artificial reservoir created in response to drought.

The locals needed water and if they were sacrificing the beautiful hunting lodge that was used by the local Raja, then so be it.

The dam was created and Jama Hall was fourth. What's left of the building has survived incredibly well.

And there's even talked at the upper tier will be renovated and turned into a luxury restaurant.

How you feel about London, Battersea Power Station will probably depend on how you feel about brutalist meets Art Deco architecture.

This is the building which as the name suggests, once provided power for large parts of the city of London.

It was built in 1929, much to the chagrin of local residents who were concerned it would ruin their view of the surrounding area and dominate the landscape.

They were right. But over time, it came to be viewed as an iconic building. Pink Floyd even used it as a cover for one of their records.

Even all these years later, the cathedral shaped power station is still the largest brick built building in England.

It did a study for decades, but it was deemed obsolete and outdated in 1983 and was closed down.

Ever since then it's moved from owner to owner with some wanting to demolish it, and others wanting to turn it into anything from Europe's biggest nightclub to a theme park.

For whatever reason, every single project has failed. The latest initiative is to turn it into housing units.

But as it's now a listed building with protected status, that won't be easy.

Famous rock band Led Zeppelin once wrote a song called stairway to have it we don't know if they were inspired by the Haiku Stairs in Hawaii, which also go by that name.

But if they were it's easy to see why. From the bottom. They really do look like they ascend into the sky high enough for people to go and meet their maker.

Originally it was just a humble wooden planter nailed to a cliff, which was put there to aid the function of a transmitter during the Second World War.

Complete the transmitter could broadcast signals so strong that even submarines below the waters of Tokyo Bay were capable of receiving.

The transmitter was shut down in 1997. But it's been illegal to climb the stairs for much longer than that.

The old wooden steps were swapped out for steel ones in the 1930s which made things a lot easier for visitors.

The No Trespassing signs went up in 1987 and nobody's been allowed to climb the 3922 Stairs set.

As a guard is permanently posted there. It makes you wonder what might now be at the top.

The Lawndale theatre was once the entertainment hotspot of Chicago, Illinois.

You could see a different type of entertainment there every night of the week in the 1920s silent movies on the weekends, vaudeville and boxing on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, and chorus girl competitions later in the week.

Strangely, it was open all year apart from the summer, even more strangely, it passed through the hands of the mafia when our opponents associate Frank Nitti bought it in the 1930s.

He allowed it to continue running as a theatre but often rented it out for shady private functions. That might explain why a gang leader was shot and fatally wounded there in 1961.

And then it's run as a theatre. It reopened as a church in 1964 and stayed open for 40 years until it fell into disuse shortly after the year 2000.

Now this storied and famous old building is falling apart on Roosevelt Road if Walls Could Talk they could probably tell tales that would make the hairs on the back of your neck stand on it.

Not everything Disney touches turns to gold. Almost everything does but not quite the whole lot.

Orlando Florida is the home of all Disney's truly great but in the middle of the bay, Lake and Walt Disney World is their secret shame.

The abandoned zoological park is known as discovery Island. Discovery Island wasn't the attraction's first name they tried Treasure Island first before deciding discovery Island suited the wildlife on the island better.

Lemurs. giant tortoises and flamingos once called this place home, but when visitors lost interest in 1999.

The animals were shipped off to Animal Kingdom and nature was allowed to reclaim the land totally try it was supposed to become a gigantic escape room-style attraction shortly afterward, but the plans fell through.

It's now off-limits to all visitors and has been abandoned for 20 years. You can earn yourself a lifetime ban from all Disney by just by trying to land on it. So there's presumably something there that they're still hiding.

Preston castle in California used to be home for troubled children. Now it's home to nobody at all.

This enormous building is almost a castle. It boasts 120 rooms within its 46,000 square feet and has stood since 1890.

Interestingly, every brick used in the construction was handcrafted by prisoners at the nearby Folsom and st prisons.

Despite its grand appearance, its construction was ordered because the state wanted somewhere to house male juvenile offenders for rehabilitation.

It was run in a military style with an intensive focus on labor and discipline. We don't imagine the people who had to live their families enjoying the experience.

That purpose came to an end in 1960 when more modern institutions for young offenders became available.

Then it stood empty. And it's become an attraction for Ghost Hunters. Many people claimed to have seen ghosts here, and there are numerous stories of young inmates passing away within its walls in the circumstances.

The organization that owns it encourages these stories. They offer ghost tours for the princely sum of $100 per visitor, legendary country musician once a prisoner here.

Speaking of abandoned correctional facilities here's Idaho State Penitentiary when it first opened in 1870.

It was a single cell building. You have to wonder who thought building a prison with one cell was a good idea.

The unfortunate occupants of that cell were forced to quarry stone from the surrounding area to build more cells.

Once they had two cells, both inmates were put to work doing the same. Over the years, the self building prison expanded to the point it's sprawled across 15 buildings and basic accommodation for 600 was unsurprisingly for a prison built by prisoners.

Conditions inside the jail were especially rough. There were repeated riots and after two of them occurred in one year in 1973  the state has decided enough was enough and moved the prisoners out to other gyms.

Since then, it's been open to the public as a museum. There's even a specialist military museum on the site, which showcases weaponry dating back over 5000 years.

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