Kolmanskop is a ghost town in southern Africa’s Namib Desert, in the middle of a region known as “the forbidden zone.” But how did it come to be an abandoned ghost town? More recently, Land of Oz has begun opening it gates around Halloween to those brave enough to explore the eery Emerald City. What’s more, thieves broke into the park’s museum and stole numerous original film costumes, including Judy Garland’s iconic gingham dress. To this day, no one knows what started the fire, but it destroyed the amphitheatre, nearby shops, and restaurant. Then in 1975, Land of Oz was destroyed in a mysterious fire which crippled the park. However, shortly after opening, interest started to decline and the yellow brick road began to lose its shine. On first opening in 1970, the Land of Oz welcomed over 400,000 visitors. Land of Oz is a creepy abandoned theme park set in the quiet wilderness of Beech Mountain, North Carolina. RELATED CONTENT: These are the world’s 10 most haunted places Land of Oz Theme Park, Beech Mountain, North Carolina Visitors are also told not to touch objects that have been cordoned off and not to sit down anywhere! Due to the success of HBO and Sky Atlantic’s Chernobyl, an estimated 60,000 tourists visited last year – the same size as the population of the cities before the incident. If you decide to visit this creepy destination, you have to be screened before you enter and checked for radioactive particles after you leave. That is until 2010, when both Chernobyl and Pripyat were deemed safe for tourists to visit. The city’s entire population was evacuated in just four hours and with radiation remaining too high for human habitation, nobody has ever returned. Pripyat was the ninth nuclear city in the Soviet Union to serve the nearby Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, but has sat deserted since the Chernobyl nuclear disaster of April 1986. The ghost city of Pripyat in Ukraine is one of the eeriest abandoned places in the world. Shockingly, 60% of the city’s peak population have now moved away, leaving behind a stark example of urban decay. Once at the centre of a booming motor industry, the economic recessions, competition from overseas and race riots have slowly diminished Detroit’s prosperity.
It’s one of Detroit’s many abandoned places that mark the shocking decline of a major American city. The former luxurious Lee Plaza Hotel stands windowless and desolate in the wake of America’s turbulent economic and social climate. This abandoned hotel has a sad story to tell. GET INSPIRED BY: Classic China Lee Plaza Hotel, Detroit, USA Abandoned hotel (illustration) © Cristian Lipovan/Shutterstock Due to the city’s location, Tianducheng didn’t quite have the je ne sais quoi it was hoping for and sits eerily abandoned looking like a post-apocalyptic Paris. Today, it is home to a mere two thousand. The ambitious development was built in 2007, with the aim to house around 10,000 residents. The Tianducheng district of Hangzhou in China is a small-scale replica of Paris, complete with Eiffel Tower and Champs-Elysées (if that isn’t creepy enough?).
This is without a doubt one of the creepiest abandoned places in the world. Reader beware, you’re in for a scare… Tianducheng, Hangzhou, China From eerily empty hospitals to desolate theme parks, these seven locations are guaranteed to give you the chills. In honour of All Hallows’ Eve or Halloween, we thought we’d round up some of world’s spookiest abandoned places. Pumpkins at the ready? Creepy costume on? Fa-boo-lous.
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