40 Of The Most Fascinating Abandoned Places Around The World

If you are making up your mind to visit some haunting places around the world then I would suggest you that nothing is more fascinating to look at than a ghostly abandoned town.  Each and every abandoned place or town has its own special charm describing the stories of those who used to live, work and pray there.

We have already published a post about beautiful abandoned places around the world but our today collection feature some new and unseen places left abandoned or simply forgotten.  Check out our collection of latest, most incredible and fascinating abandoned places around the world.

A tree growing through an abandoned piano

Overgrown palace, Poland

Jet Star Rollercoaster, Seaside Heights, New Jersey

Abandoned House in the Woods

Church in St. Etienne, France

15 of The Most Scariest Places on Earth

No doubt our planet is a lovely, welcoming place but there are still a few unique, terrifying and scary locations where you don't even want to spend a single night. The stories behind the photos below are really weird, haunting and sometimes, downright terrifying. For adventurous… if you still have vacation days saved up I recommend to visit one of these haunting places, but beware these scary sites are not for the faint of heart.

1. La isla de la Muñecas or The Island of Dolls - Mexico 

2. Aokigahara Forest - Mount Fuji, Japan (The Suicide Forest)

3. Catacombs of Paris

These Photos of Abandoned Psychiatric Ward Will Make Your Stomach Drop

The Creedmoor Psychiatric Center in Queens Village, New York was founded in 1912. The center was build as the Farm Colony of Brooklyn State Hospital and vacant since the early 1970s. It has housed 7,000 patients and thought to be the best place for fresh air and physical labor.

 Between 1960s and 1980s it was deinstitutionalized and fallen into mismanagement and crimes like suicides, assaults, rapes and shooting keep growing under its roof. As result most of the areas of the hospital have become abandoned. Below are 16 haunting photos of Creedmoor Psychiatric Center that will make your stomach drop.

The House In The Woods: A Photo Series Captures Wild Animals Living In Abandoned Homes

Although it seems pretty unusual to say that photos of abandoned places could be made beautiful but a recent photo series titled 'The House in the Woods, by Finnish photographer Kai Fagerström has proved that the abandoned places can be awesome indeed.

Fagerström visited abandoned houses near his family’s summer home in Suomusjärvi, Finland and find there some wild animals including fox, squirrel, wildcat, badgers and many other living comfortably there since the humans left them after a fire. Fagerström takes few stunning snapshots showing how quickly nature takes back the places it has lent to people. Take a look!

30 Most Beautiful Abandoned Hotels Around The World

The world has gone through many disasters such as nuclear explosions, earthquakes and prolonged warfare that have left behind some abandoned places. As result some cites die, the street go quiet and fear of ruined or old buildings pops up in the minds of people that have been sitting deserted for a very long time.

If we look back we saw that great changes have taken place to all these neglected buildings. There was life, people laughing or crying and have passed some of their life’s best time there. Empty buildings whether it is a home, hospital or neglected cliff-top hotel each abandoned building has a story behind it.  In this post we are going to showcase you some of the most beautiful photos of abandoned hotels, which will show you how rapid decline can be without human attention.

El Hotel del Salto, Colombia

Hall, An Abandoned Hotel

A small forgotten hotel in Germany