Most Dangerous, creepy & Abandoned places around the world were once filled with people living their lives and minding their own business. Abandoned for different reasons, now they look more like ghost towns or even the set of some horror movie. The mysterious remains of these formerly crowded and noisy locations can provoke fear, curiosity and excitement all at the same time.
Knowing that only the most courageous risk-takers will dare to visit any of these places, we at Bright Side decided to take our very own virtual tour to know Who lived there? Why is it abandoned? Why did they settle there in the first place?
10. The ghost town of Bodie in California – USA
The town was officially founded in 1876, when miners discovered rich deposits of gold and silver here. In search of wealth and a better life, people flooded into the small town. Soon the place earned the reputation of ‘sin city’, full of brothels and hopjoints. Subsequently, Bodie went bankrupt, and by the 1940s it became a real ghost town. Currently it is considered to be one of the best well-preserved ghost towns in the world.
9. Czestochowa railway station – Poland
The railway system in the city of Czestochowa in southern Poland was built during the golden age of industrial development. Today, this abandoned railway station is one of the most mysterious places you can visit in Europe.
8. The ghost tower of Sathorn – Thailand
In the early 1990s, Thailand experienced the largest economic boom of its history. During that time, the authorities and business circles demonstrated stability and financial success by initiating ambitious building projects, including the Sathorn skyscraper. However, when the Asian financial crisis shattered Thailand’s economy, the almost completed construction of the unique skyscraper was suspended. Currently, plans concerning Sathorn tower remain uncertain: experts have shown that to reconstruct the tower now will cost much more than to build a new one. Moreover, the tower has the reputation of a haunted building.
7. The Teufelsberg (Devil’s Mountain) – Germany
This relic of a bygone era stands at the top of the highest hill in former West Berlin. The place used to be a Nazi military college. After several unsuccessful attempts to demolish the building, the Allies decided to bury it under 120 meters of wreckage produced as a result of the massive Anglo-American bombing campaign during the Second World War. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, this abandoned building has had many owners. One of them, the famous director David Lynch, even planned to build a ‘Happiness College’ here to house yoga students. However, the authorities of Berlin turned down the proposals.
6. Miranda Castle – Belgium
During the French Revolution, the Count Liedekerke-Beaufort, a Belgian political activist, was forced to leave this castle with his family and move to a neighboring farm. After the Second World War and up to the late 1980s, the castle was taken over by the National Railway Company of Belgium and subsequently used as an orphanage and also a summer camp for children. In 1991, due to maintenance costs, the castle was abandoned.
5. Kijong-dong (Peace Village) – North Korea
It seems like this Korean village was intentionally built to be empty and uninhabited. The village is located in the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea. After the ceasefire in 1953, the government of North Korea decided to use the small village as a propaganda tool: since it is the only town which can be seen from the territory of South Korea, it had to look perfect. Although the North Korean authorities have given assurances that ordinary citizens live in the village, close examination shows that the houses have no glass in their windows and are uninhabited. Lights in the village are all lit simultaneously at a certain time of day. Is this a fake town?
4. Fordlandia – Brazil
This place was established by the American industrialist Henry Ford in 1927, when he started his corporate city project. It was intended to be a huge rubber plantation in the Amazon rainforest, along the east banks of the Tapajos river. Ford developed the idea of a corporate city with every facility imaginable — swimming pools, a golf course, bungalows, and even a place for practicing national American dances. However, the locals weren’t happy with the whole idea and refused to accept a ban on alcohol. Brazilian workers and American industrialists seemed to be in a permanent state of conflict over the issue, and in 1930, the native workers revolted in one of the town’s cafeterias. They threw the cars into the river and chased away the managers into the jungle. After that, the city was abandoned for good.
3. Abandoned movie theater, Sinai desert – Egypt
Locals say that the cinema was built by a rich Frenchman who was once walking with his friends in the desert and decided that the only thing he needed there was a movie theater. He bought a generator in Cairo, a hundred seats, and a giant screen. Everything was ready for the first movie, but as it turned out the locals didn’t like the idea at all. They broke the generator, and the story ended before it even began. So now in the heart of the desert you can still find a white screen that never showed any movie.
2. Chatillon Car Graveyard – St Léger, Belgium
Most haunted car cemetery. This is a car graveyard nears a small village in Ardennes, Belgium’s infamous car graveyard. The deteriorating cars have been sitting here for the past 70 years and the neighboring wilderness will eradicate them completely someday. The reason why so many cars were abandoned still remains a mystery. An interesting legend says that the cars were left behind by American soldiers who were stationed here and when it was time to come home they just left them here.
1. Craco, Italy
Craco is a ghost town and comune in the Province of Matera, in the southern Italian region of Basilicata. The old town was abandoned due to natural disasters. The abandonment has made Craco a tourist attraction and a popular filming location.
Craco was once a bustling medieval city in the South of Italy until a natural disaster took place.Landslides and earthquakes make it very difficult for people to make this place home. As you can see in this photo, the village sits on top of a hill which makes it an easy target to be affected by natural elements. The abandonment make the location popular for tourists and filmmakers. Occasionally festivals are held at this location but no one will call this place home.