8 Ghost Towns Across The World

Zee Media Bureau
Aug 05, 2024

Craco, Italy

It is an abandoned Italian city, experienced numerous natural disasters, including landslides, floods, and earthquakes.

Hashima Island, Japan

It is also known as Gunkanjima or Battleship Island, was a coal mining facility that closed in 1974, becoming uninhabitable and now a popular urban tourist destination.

Pripyat, Ukraine

Ukraine's famous ghost town was home to around 50,000 people but evacuated in 1986 due to Chernobyl Nuclear Station explosion and remain town brim with spookiness.

Bodie, California, USA

The former gold mining town was abandoned in the 1940s and now serves as a state historic park.

Centralia, Pennsylvania, USA

It is abandoned as a result of a coal fire that started underground in 1962 and is still burning today.

Kayaköy, Turkey

Known as a ghost village was abandoned in the 1920s following the Greek-Turkish population exchange.

Oradour-sur-Glane, France

The village was destroyed by a Nazi Waffen-SS unit in 1944, and has been preserved as a memorial and museum to honour its victims.

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