Category: Strange Places
200km east of Istanbul, Turkey, near the roman spa town of Mudurnu, lies the surreally haunting village of Burj Al Babas. Dreamed up by a pair of Turkish property-developing brothers with the intention of being a luxurious European style…
The true mystery surrounding the 5th Duke Of Portland and his seclusion. William John Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck, 5th Duke of Portland (17 September 1800 – 6 December 1879), styled (named) Lord John Bentinck before 1824 and Marquess of Titchfield between 1824 and 1854,…
This incredible underwater city, trapped in time, is 1341 years old. Shicheng, or Lion City, is located in the Zhejiang province in eastern China. It was submerged in 1959 during the construction of the Xin’an River Hydropower Station. 1,078 large…
The Hoia Baciu Forest a.k.a World’s Most Haunted Forest, is situated near Cluj-Napoca, Romania covers an area of over 250 hectares and is often referred to as the Bermuda Triangle of the country. Hoia Baciu Forest, has a reputation…
Very few resorts will get as ghostly as the Kupari luxury resort in Croatia, which hasn’t seen any paying guests since its last season more than 20 years ago. Kupari is a bay on the Adriatic Sea in an area…
The Ryugyong Hotel sometimes spelled as Ryu-Gyong Hotel), or Yu-Kyung Hotel, is an unfinished 105-story, 330-metre-tall (1,080 ft) pyramid-shaped skyscraper in Pyongyang, North Korea. Its name (“capital of willows”) is also one of the historical names for Pyongyang. The building…
Lonely locations You’ve heard of a one-horse town, but what about a one-person town? Scattered throughout the U.S. are places with populations you can count on one hand — and sometimes one finger. Some of these places were evacuated after…
Abandoned North Brother Island, New York North Brother Island, located in between Queens and the Bronx in New York, has a long and fascinating history. The entire island has now been abandoned for nearly 50 years. A morbid past…
On April 26, 1986, an explosion occurred at the No. 4 reactor of the nuclear power station at, in the then-Soviet state of Ukraine. It was the worst disaster in the history of nuclear energy production. The radiation spread by…
In May 2008, officials in the Chinese province of Sichuan announced that the city of Beichuan may be moved to a neighboring county leaving the old city abandoned. Beichuan was one of the areas hardest hit by an earthquake…
Nicosia International Airport was once the main airport for the island of Cyprus, but has now been derelict for nearly forty years. Principally used as the headquarters of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus, the commercial flight area has…
Before the division of Cyprus in 1974, Varosha – a resort in Famagusta – was booming. The rich and famous were drawn by some of the best beaches on the island. Richard Burton and Brigitte Bardot all dropped by –…
