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jochen_ac, flickr Travelers looking for a getaway from the normal getaway should skip the sandy beaches to walk amid silent relics in Namibia, Chernobyl or an abandoned California gold mining town.
Across the planet, there are locations and monuments left abandoned. Once time and corrosion have taken hold, entire towns are left in ghostly shells of their former selves.
Abandoned buildings and structures in the United States (4 C, 6 P) Urban exploration (3 C, 27 P) Pages in category "Abandoned buildings and structures"
Nazca Lines. Nazca, Peru These giant ancient pieces of line art — of which, according to National Geographic, there are "over 800 straight lines, 300 geometric figures, and 70 animal and plant ...
Kale Williams included the Stone House in The Oregonian 's 2017 list of the sixteen "coolest and creepiest abandoned places" in the Pacific Northwest. Williams described the structure as a popular resting spot for hikers and wrote, "For better or worse, the so-called Witches Castle is periodically covered in graffiti, but it's still a sight to ...
These places are tiny islands, the driest part of large deserts, very high mountains, and ice caps. The only other areas which are completely free of people are areas set aside by law such as strict nature reserves, sacred mountains, bombing ranges, and exclusion zones.
Not all ghost towns are from the Old West, and the reasons vary why a popular tourist destination might become abandoned. Here are 16 from Detroit to Taiwan.
In the 1970s, Saint Martin of the Tigers was cut off from the mainland by the rising sea levels, and its water supply line was severed; both Tigres and Foz do Cunene were subsequently abandoned. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The island, bound by the South Atlantic Ocean and the Tigres Strait , lies in a zone that is ideally suited for ecological projects. [ 3 ]