Deserted Places Archives

This is a list of every post published on this blog arranged by continent and country, as of May 1st, 2017. 

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On the sidebar you can also find a list of all posts arranged by year and month. 

Have fun!

But first of all, here are all posts arranged by type: 

abandoned airports and aircraft // abandoned amusement parks // abandoned castles and fortresses // abandoned churches // abandoned places in the desert // abandoned film sets // abandoned ghosts towns // abandoned hospitals and health institutions // abandoned hotels // abandoned houses // abandoned industrial sites // abandoned islands // abandoned malls // abandoned military sites // abandoned monuments // abandoned Olympic Games venues // abandoned prisons // abandoned railway stations, railway lines and trains // abandoned schools and universities // abandoned ships and boats // abandoned skyscrapers // abandoned space exploration facilities // abandoned sport facilities // abandoned strip clubs // abandoned tv studios //  abandoned swimming pools // abandoned theaters, cinemas and arenas // abandoned theme parks // abandoned towers // underground abandoned places // underwater abandoned places

AFRICA

Egypt

• The deserted hotels of Sharm el Seikh, Egypt
• Abandoned Sinai hotels

Liberia

• The deserted Ducor Hotel of Monrovia

Morocco

• The abandoned fortified town of Ait-Ben-Haddou in Morocco

Namibia

• Kolmanskop, the ghost town of the desert

Tunisia

• Tour the abandoned Star Wars film sets in Tunisia

NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICA

Argentina

• The flooded ruins of Villa Epecuén

Bolivia

• A train graveyard at Uyuni, Bolivia

Brazil

• Rio's Olympic venues, abandoned 6 months later
• Rio's Maracana Stadium, left deserted after the Olympics

Canada

• McBarge: An abandoned floating Mc Donald's restaurant in Canada

Colombia

• The Haunted Hotel at Tequendama Falls

The Haunted Hotel at Tequendama Falls

Cuba

• The abandoned 'Model Prison' of Cuba

Greenland

• Inside an abandoned military bunker in Greenland

Mexico

• A Mexican church, half buried in lava
• The Mexican Island of the Dolls
• Mexico's abandoned 'Monumento de Mestizaje'

United States of America

Alabama

• The film set of the abandoned town of Spectre from Tim Burton's Big Fish

Alaska

• An abandoned igloo hotel in Alaska

Arizona

• Photos of abandoned arcades in Arizona

California

• An abandoned Christmas theme park in Southern California
• Inside Michael Jackson's abandoned Neverland Ranch
• The abandoned LA subway
• Surfridge, a ghost town within Los Angeles

Colorado

• Gilman: The mining town in Colorado that got so contaminated it had to be abandoned

Connecticut

• Holy Land USA: An abandoned Bible theme park

Florida

• The abandoned Disney's River Country theme park in Florida
• The ghost town of Ellaville in Florida
• An abandoned funeral home in Jacksonville, Florida
• Fort Jefferson: An abandoned island fortress off Florida
• The mysterious dome houses in southwest Florida
• An abandoned rocket manufacturing plant in Florida

Illinois

• The urban ruins of Cairo, Illinois

Indiana

• The abandoned ruins of Gary, Indiana

Kansas

• Joyland: An abandoned amusement park in Kansas

Kentucky

• The Old Taylor distillery in Kentucky

Louisiana

• The ruins of Fort Macomb in New Orleans
• The abandoned Six Flags New Orleans amusement park

Maryland

• The abandoned Montebello State Hospital in Baltimore
• Holland Island in the Chesapeake Bay

Massachusetts

• The ghost island of Boston
• Deserted streets in Boston, as the city goes into lockdown

Michigan

• Packard Automotive Plant, the largest abandoned industrial site in the world
• Michigan Central Station: The most iconic abandoned building of Detroit
• Inside the abandoned Silverdome
• The Woodward Avenue Presbyterian Church in Detroit
• Detroit, a city in decay
• An abandoned Detroit High School, now and then
• The Holy Family Orphanage in Marquette, Michigan
• Detroit's Abandoned Houses

Detroit, a city in decay

Yves Marchand & Romain Meffre

Missouri

• An abandoned mall in St. Louis
• Inside the abandoned Forest Park hospital

Nebraska

• The abandoned Devils Nest ski resort in Nebraska

Nevada

• The ghost town of Rhyolite, Nevada

New Jersey

• The abandoned Essex County Jail of New Jersey

New York

• The abandoned Buffalo Central Terminal
• The haunted Dundas Castle in New York
• The abandoned Rochester Subway of New York
• Inside New York's Letchworth Village: the abandoned mental institution of horror
• Ruins of the 1964 New York World’s Fair Pavilion
• The legendary TWA Flight Center terminal of JFK airport
• The abandoned Rockland Psychiatric Center in New York
• Inside the abandoned Domino Sugar Refinery in New York
• The abandoned City Hall station of New York Subway
• The abandoned Loew's Kings Theatre in New York
• The abandoned Riverside Hospital in New York's North Brother Island
• A deserted New York City, getting ready for Hurricane Sandy
• The Secret Train Platform Under the Waldorf-Astoria in Manhattan
• Inside an Abandoned All-Girls School, Part 1
• Inside an Abandoned All-Girls School, Part 2
• The abandoned Harlem Renaissance Ballroom

North Carolina

• The deserted North Wilkesboro Speedway
• Follow the yellow brick road of the abandoned Land of Oz theme park

Ohio

• The abandoned Warner and Swasey Observatory of Cleveland
• Inside Cleveland's abandoned Variety Theater
• The abandoned Rolling Acres Mall in Ohio
• Cleveland's old aquarium
• Mike Tyson's abandoned mansion

Pennsylvania

• The Carrie Furnace in Pennsylvania

South Carolina

• The abandoned movie set of Cameron's 'The Abyss'

Tennessee

• Tiki Palace: An abandoned Playboy mansion in Tennessee

Texas

• Desertron: The world's largest Super Collider partly built, then abandoned in Texas

Washington

• The abandoned Kalakala streamliner ship

Washington D.C.

• Inside Washington Coliseum, where the Beatles gave their first concert in the US

Other USA territories

• Baker Island: A deserted atoll in the Pacific Ocean

Around the United States

• NASA's abandoned launch sites
• Pictures of abandoned swimming pools

NASA's abandoned launch sites

Roland Miller

ANTARCTICA

• The remains of Pegasus in Antarctica
• A sunken yacht in Antarctica
• The ruins of Deception island

ASIA

Afghanistan

• The ruins of Darul Aman Palace of Afghanistan

China

• The abandoned backlot of Beijing Film Academy
• Shanghai's largest vacant building: A mall in the shape of Pentagon
• Beijing's abandoned Olympic venues
• Atlantis of the East: The Chinese underwater city of Shi Cheng
• An abandoned Chinese fishing village, overtaken by nature
• Ordos, China: The world's largest ghost town
• China's newest -and emptiest- airport terminal
• A Parisian ghost town in the middle of China
• The largest -and loneliest- shopping mall in the world
• China's Abandoned Wonderland

Hong Kong

• Inside the abandoned villages of Hong Kong
• Abandoned TV studios in Hong Kong

India

• Kalavantin Durg, an ancient Indian fort
• The abandoned bathtubs of an Indian city
• Inside the Jaisalmer ghost airport in India

Indonesia

• The abandoned 'Chicken Church' of Indonesia

Iran

• The abandoned town of Kharanaq in Iran

Iraq

• Dair Mar Elia, Iraq's oldest Christian monastery
• Saddam Hussein's abandoned palaces

Israel

• An abandoned underwater strip club in Israel

Japan

• The abandoned Family School Fureai in Japan
• This photographer went inside Fukushima's nuclear disaster exclusion zone
• Expoland, an abandoned amusement park in Japan
• Nara Dreamland, an abandoned theme park in Japan
• Inside the Fukushima evacuation zone
• The abandoned Imari Kawanami shipyard
• The abandoned towns of Fukushima
• Hashima, the ghost island of Japan
• An Abandoned Japanese Strip Club

Hashima, the ghost island of Japan

gakuranman.com

Lebanon

• Lebanon's abandoned Grand Aley Hotel

North Korea

• Peace village, the empty North Korean propaganda village

Philippines

• The haunted Diplomat Hotel in the Philippines
• An abandoned mansion in the Philippines

Qatar

• The Film City in the heart of the desert

Russia
For Russia, look under Europe



South Korea

• Okpo Land: An abandoned amusement park in South Korea

Syria

• The Dead Cities of northern Syria

Taiwan

• An abandoned building complex in Taiwan
• The UFO houses of Sanjhih

The UFO houses of Sanjhih

cypherone/flickr.com

Thailand

• An abandoned Thai shopping mall overtaken by fish
• Sathorn Unique: Bangkok's ghost skyscraper

Turkey

• Kayakoy, a Greek ghost town in Turkey
• The medieval Armenian ghost town of Ani

Vietnam

• An abandoned church by the sea in Vietnam

OCEANIA

Australia

• The abandoned 'El Caballo Blanco' theme park of Sydney
• Photos of Australia's disappearing pubs
• The ghost town of Farina in South Australia
• An abandoned college campus in Australia
• SS Ayrfield, Sydney's floating forest
• An abandoned concert arena in Western Australia

Cook Islands

• The abandoned Sheraton resort on Cook Islands

EUROPE

Abkhasia

• An abandoned railway station in Abkhazia

Albania

• Communist era bunkers in Albania

Belgium

• The abandoned 'Orient Express' train in Belgium
• Inside an abandoned Belgian power plant
• Horror Labs: The abandoned Anderlecht Veterinary School
• The abandoned Castle of Mesen in Belgium
• An abandoned university in Belgium
• The abandoned Château Rochendaal
• An abandoned morgue in Belgium

Bulgaria

• The abandoned Vidin Synagogue in Bulgaria 
• Inside Buzludzha, the abandoned Bulgarian Communist party hq

Cyprus

• Inside the UN buffer zone in Cyprus

Denmark

For Greenland, look under America

Estonia

• The underwater Soviet Rummu prison in Estonia

France

• The abandoned Château de la Mothe-Chandeniers castle in France
• An abandoned hotel in the south of France
• The abandoned human zoo of Paris
• Abandoned French churches
• A deserted Paris is mourning
• An abandoned railway in the middle of Paris

An abandoned railway in the middle of Paris

flickr.com/Sami ALfisal

Germany 

• Prora: Hitler's abandoned beach resort
• Inside the abandoned Nazi Olympic village of Berlin
• An old fishing hut in the lake
• Hitler's hospital: The abandoned Beelitz Sanatorium
• Inside the Honecker nuclear bunker in Berlin
• An abandoned 1920s cabaret theatre in Berlin
• An abandoned NSA spying station in Berlin
• Spreepark: An abandoned amusement park in Berlin

Greece

• Deserted places around crisis-hit Greece
• Inside Keranis cigarette factory in Athens
• Athens Olympic Games sites, 10 years later
• An abandoned record factory in Athens
• The old airport of Athens
• Abandoned villas in the Greek islands
• Empty billboards in Greece
• A deserted hotel on Parnitha mountain
• Athens Olympic Games sites, 8 years later
• Villa Iolas, Athens

Greenland

For Greenland, look under America

Hungary

• The semi-abandoned Kelenföld power plant in Budapest
• An abandoned socialist textile factory in Hungary

Italy

• The Italian ghost town of Balestrino
• Poveglia, the most haunted island in the worldf
• Italy's deserted building sites
• Inside Costa Concordia cruise ship
• A semi-submerged church in northern Italy
• The underwater statue of Christ of the Abyss
• Inside Mussolini's secret bunker
• The abandoned mill in Sorrento, Italy
• Craco, a medieval Italian ghost town

Latvia

• Skrunda-1: A Soviet ghost town in Latvia

Moldova

• An abandoned Soviet era circus in Moldova

Netherlands

• An abandoned tropical swimming pool in the Netherlands

Norway

• The wrecked Soviet Murmansk battle cruiser

Poland

• The abandoned Zarnowiec nuclear power plant in Poland
• The deserted Giersdorf Church in Poland

Romania

• Romania's abandoned Casino Constanta

Russia

• An abandoned Soviet turbojet train
• The wooden churches of Russia
• A rare abandoned Russian fighter jet
• An abandoned Russian apartment building by the sea
• Inside an abandoned military aviation academy in Russia
• An abandoned Soviet naval testing station in the Caspian Sea
• An abandoned Soviet interplanetary communication link center
• Sochi, 6 months after the Winter Olympics
• An abandoned industrial complex in St. Petersburg
• Yekaterinburg TV Tower: The tallest abandoned structure in the world
• An abandoned Moscow water park
• Abandoned Russian cinemas
• Inside an abandoned secret Russian military base
• An abandoned sanatorium near Moscow
• An abandoned pulp and paper plant in Kaliningrad
• An abandoned Russian school
• Abandoned water cooling towers in Russia
• An abandoned Russian mansion
• Inside a Russian Space Capsule Cemetery

Spain

• The Spanish ghost town of Belchite, left in ruins after the Spanish civil war
• The abandoned Canfranc International Railway Station
• The Spanish ghost town of Ciudad Valdeluz
• Ciudad Real Central Airport, Spain

Ukraine

• The romantic 'Tunnel of Love' in Ukraine
• Prypiat, the ghost town of Chernobyl

United Kingdom

• The Scottish ghost village of Polphail
• The abandoned Rest hospital in south Wales
• The abandoned Royal Masonic School for Boys
• The acoustic mirrors of the United Kingdom
• The abandoned public toilets of London
• The remains of Crystal Palace train station in London
• The abandoned Durham City Baths and Washhouses
• The abandoned planes of Predannack Airfield
• The abandoned Kilchurn Castle in Scotland
• 10 abandoned London Underground stations
• Maunsell Forts: The abandoned sea forts from World War II
• Hafodunos Hall, an abandoned mansion in Wales
• UK's red telephone box graveyard
• BBC Television Centre: The end of an era
• Harold Wood Hospital in London
• Visiting the abandoned Aldwych Tube Station
• Kingsway Tram Tunnel, London, UK

UK's red telephone box graveyard

nicolasmindthegap.blogspot.co.uk

Around Europe

• More abandoned border crossings around Europe
• Europe's abandoned border crossings
• 25 abandoned former Yugoslavia monuments

AROUND THE WORLD

• Deserted football pitches from around the world

VARIOUS

• 16 abandoned places we discovered in 2016
• 15 Deserted Places we discovered in 2015
• 10 Deserted Places we discovered in 2014
• 13 Deserted Places From 2013!
• 1 Year of Deserted Places!

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