15 Largest Abandoned Cities in the World

Ghost cities are so fascinating. It's so weird and haunting to see noone living in a entire town and city.

Anyone else addicted to watching videos like this? 😂

For 19 minutes, I was able to travel around the world. 😃 Thank you for taking us to different cities of the different countries. Though they all look scary, still, they are all amazingly beautiful! 😍

Given the world's homeless problem, it's disturbing to see these abandoned cities.

I live in Los Angeles and have traveled to the Salton Sea about 5 times. Bombay Beach no doubt is a bizarre place to visit with lots of people still living there. One house looks nice, the next one dilapidated, the next burnt out, truly bizarre. But you travel anywhere around the Salton Sea and it’s pretty jaw dropping. Instead of sandy shores the crunch of fish bones 2 feet deep greets you. Another area has lakeside houses with most abandoned with some inhabited but it’s difficult to tell which ones. If there is a car in the driveway someone probably lives there. If what you see looks like an abandoned boat it probably is abandoned. Everywhere you looks is very post nuclear and apocalyptic. It’s incredible. But then Palm Springs isn’t too far away so you can get back to a swanky good time surrounded by amazing mid century architecture.

In the Bombay Beach segment, you said that the "Colorado River was diverted to create the Salton Sea" as if it were deliberate. It was actually a natural breach of the riverbed into an ancient channel that ended in the low spot where the "Sea" formed. Geologically, this used to be the upper end of the Gulf of California before an upthrust cut it off and the water evaporated. There was an extensive salt mining operation there in the 19th Century, and most of the mining equipment is still there at the bottom. The water is evaporating again and will probably be gone in a couple hundred years if left alone. This is a cyclical phenomenon and has happened several times in the past.

Videos like this fascinate me. Abandoned towns and house videos are my favorite types of videos to watch.

Well the one that "hit home" to me was Bombay Beach at the Salton Sea! My brother lives there and I still enjoy walking around the place and viewing the abandoned places. Much had been artistically altered.

I live in CA. I never knew we have abundant city around. Love to visit these ghost town. Thank you.

Very surprised Pripyat in Ukraine is not in this list considering its probably larger than most of these

I lived in Nagasaki for around a year back in university and you can see Gunkanjima (battleship island) from the shore while you're just.. out at the mall or park haha. You can take a boat/tour there too, it's really quite haunting. Especially since it was manmade it's like...futuristic dystopian ruins vibes.

The castles look like really large tombstones.

Update on Centralia, Pa. The fire was suspected as having burned itself out after about 60 years. In April 2020, the area was thought to have been bought by a coal company. They started covering up the graffiti highway with dirt to keep people away from the area.

I find it beautiful to see foliage grow over buildings. It’s like earth is taking back her land!

Apparently, Ordos City is actually experiencing a boom right now because a bunch of good schools relocated their campuses there.

Tianduchang is no longer abandoned. Quite popular nowadays and easy to reach by Hanzhou's subway. Supposedly around 30 000 people live there, so it's much more than 2000 reported here.

This video needs updating. According to a Bloomberg Businessweek report from September 1, 2021, Ordos City filling up.

Many of these places destroyed by human greed. Entire ecosystems ruined. Crazy

NATURE ALWAYS WINS.

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