Kolmanskop (Namibia): Buried in the sand
The only other civilization in those buildings are the graffiti that still persist today.
Kolsmanskop is a ghost town in southern Namibia, a few kilometers inland from the port of Lüderitz. Lüderitz in 1908 was engaged in the diamond rush and there were streams of people coming to the desert and Namibia hoping to make a fortune easily, streams of people, that of water, none. In two years the city was complete with a casino, school, hospital, residential areas ... all in the middle of nowhere and surrounded by sand dunes. Shortly after diamond sales worldwide fell and the beginning of the end came. During the 50's the city was slowly falling out of people and dinas began to reclaim what was theirs.
metal cartels fell, the gardens were invaded by sand, doors and windows were breaking under the weather (and under the kicks of a browser that go in search of you to know that).
was born a new ghost town.
Currently still remain standing and can see many buildings that have not been completely buried by sand, some of them are in very good condition but most are nothing more than ruins.
Pripyat (Ukraine): The residence of the Chernobyl workers
Pripyat is an abandoned city in northern Ukraine, in fact it was home to many plant workers Chernobyl nuclear course was abandoned in 1986 after the debacle of the plant.
The population of this extraordinary era ghost town of 50,000 people before the crash.
Until recently this site was practically a museum documenting the Soviet era, it can be seen in the lifetime of Soviet communism as it was the day before the explosion: apartment buildings (four of them recently completed and still unoccupied), swimming pools, hospitals, leisure centers, sports centers, schools ... all of them abandoned in haste so you can find inside, newspapers, televisions, toys, furniture, valuables,
clothes ...
When it came time for the evacuation only allowed residents to carry a briefcase full of documents, books and clothes that were checked to ensure they were not contaminated.
Despite the risk involved in approaching this place some of the buildings in this city have been looted recently, as well as buildings have no one to care for them begin to have defects of the old, for example falling off roofs, flooded rooms and even scenes more typical of post-apocalyptic movies like trees growing on roofs and even inside buildings.
SAN ZHI (Taiwan): The futuristic vacation home
San Zhi ... Personally I love this, is like a great preamble to what is the housing crisis, but way, we should learn from these things ...
The fact is that in northern Taiwan to someone thought to make a luxurious place to enjoy a holiday futuristic, obviously aimed at the rich. However
many fatal accidents occurred during construction and finally had to stop, finally, the lack of money and lack of interest in finishing the project led that it will never restart.
The result is a collection of buildings that vaguely resemble a mixture between the enterprise and the fairs of my people. Finally
government commissioned works distancing itself from the whole thing and try to cover all the bizarre building, as a result there are no names of architects or anyone responsible for the works.
Interestingly soon after the legend began to emerge (perhaps promoted by the government?) That the place was haunted by the spirits of those killed in accidents at the construction site, today it is said that spirits inhabit this area and live in homes as living beings we do in ours, this legend has been devalued so badly the area has made it very unattractive for future work which in principle is to perpetuate the existence of this time ghost town.
CRAC (Italy): The medieval city
In Craco we can find a medieval city as of the time, is built on a hill, leaving the slopes for cultivation and it is believed environment that was founded to 1060 AD, when the land was owned by the Bishop of Tricarico, of course the city maintained relations with the church during long time and its influence can still be seen in the derelict remains of the city.
In 1892 the city had its peak population around 2000 souls, but since then the city suffered many problems because of poor harvests.
Between 1892 and 1922 1300 of these 2000 people left the city and traveled to North America because of the bad harvests, earthquakes to landslides and war (a gem of a city go, missing only the meteorites rain). Later between 1952 and 1972 Craco was plagued by a string of earthquakes and during this period, in 1963 the remaining population was transported to a nearby valley called "Craco Peschiera.
Craco What remains after the earthquake is still in a state of permanent decline.
Oradour sur Glane (France): The horror of World War II
The small village of Oradour-Sur-Glane in France, saw the death of all 642 people in a horrible, occurred during the Second World War at the hands of German soldiers as punishment for the French Resistance.
The Germans had no intention of going to the city-Sur-Vayres Oradeur knowing that there were sheltering a large core of the French resistance, but by mistake ended up arriving at her neighbor Oradeur-Sur-Glane on June 10, 1944.
Legend has it that the German soldiers rounded up the men in barns and then shot them in the legs to die slowly, women and children who had been held in a church suffered a worse fate as the Germans set fire , leaving two options to the people inside, or die by fire or died before the machine gun fire that awaited them at the door.
Finally, the city was sacked by the Germans.
The French authorities decided not to re-populate the city making it a great monument to the dead and as a reminder of what happened there.
Gunkanjima (Japan): The Forbidden Island
Gunkanjima is one among 505 uninhabited islands in the archipelago of Japan, is located near the city of Nagasaki, about 15 kilometers , also called armored city thanks to its high walls to protect it from inclement sea that makes it look like an armored army.
In 1890, a company called Mitsubishi bought the island and started a project for extracting coal from the bottom of the sea, this project attracted much attention and in 1916 forced to build concrete buildings to house and protect against hurricanes workers who lived there.
In 1959 the population had grown enormously to have a population of 835 persons per hectare of the island (1391 per hectare in residential areas) which may be the highest population density ever recorded worldwide.
Finally in 1960 oil replaced coal as the main fuel and coal mines began closing all over the world, this was no exception.
In 1974, Mitsubishi announced the closure of the mine and day Today the place is completely empty and entry prohibited.
This island was the site of recording of the film "Battle Royale II" and the inspiration for the last stage of the game "Killer7"
Kowloon Walled City (China): Edison
Without a doubt my favorite, Kowloon City is the perfect setting for a Vampire (RPG).
Kowloon is located just outside Hong Kong wings and was initially established by the British as an outpost to protect the area against pirates (During the British colonial era).
During World War II the Japanese occupied the lookout and were subsequently expelled from the curiously at that point neither the Chinese nor the British wanted to know anything about this place for what became a lawless place and country .
As expected the place is plagued with people of dubious reputation, but curiously this society could be developed and followed (among other things) building site, occupied every place possible and building higher and higher to not go beyond the limits of city \u200b\u200band entering Chinese territory.
This situation is perpetuated for decades in what became a maze of corridors above the street level waste completely packed. The buildings were so tall that sunlight could not reach the ground so that the whole city should be constantly illuminated by fluorescent.
This place had hotels, casinos, opium dens, cocaine dealers, fast food restaurants serving dog meat and of course secret factories could run without being harassed by the authorities. Another
features of this site is that the buildings were so close to each other bridges were built with doors or other makeshift materials to pass also from one building to another without the need to go down to the street, on the other side could be in itself a very dangerous activity.
As if this were not enough, without any development control was common to find streets (where street call things here would not be a sad alley in the best case) that ended in a wall or narrow passages frequented the day before dawn a pile of debris made it impossible to transit.
To end our tour around this wonderful city, two points more, during its existence, the Chinese built a wall around themselves to prevent their inhabitants leave, secondly, a group of explorers trying to get to make a map of the place, after months of work and gave up his attempt after having mapped a fraction of the surroundings of the place and without being in too.
Famagusta (Cyprus): There was once a resort town
Barrosa is a small site never recognized the "Republic of Northern Cyprus" in his day was a modern tourist area of \u200b\u200bthe city of Famagusta, however during the last three decades has been a ghost town.
all started when the Turkish army took control the area during the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974, the area completely depopulated drive out its inhabitants and not allow entry to anyone except Turkish military and United Nations personnel.
There was a plan to restore the site for the Greek Cypriots but the plan failed precisely because the Greeks of Cyprus voted against (their reasons would). As
not done any repairs since 1974 all the buildings are falling apart slowly, some faster than others, particularly those who were hit by a cannon during the invasion, little by little the nature is reclaiming the area, metals corrode, windows break, the plants enter their roots through the walls, floors and walls ... the facts and have seen that sea turtles are nesting on the beaches deserted.
Agdam (Azerbaijan): A city of 150,000 lost
And finally our last visit in the top 10 ghost towns in the world.
Agdam is, this city came to house inside to 150,000 souls, making it the most populous of our ranking (for lack of knowing how many people lived in Kowloon but it seems unlikely that there were so many).
This city became what it is in 1993 during the war of "Nagorno Karabakh", though the city was never really the goal of combat vandalism victim callus while occupied by Armenians so that its population had moved to other areas of Azerbaijan and even Iran.
In most cases the buildings are empty shells with nothing inside, with doors and windows enforced in an attempt to loot anything of value that might be in them.
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