Scary Ghost towns from around the world

The world is full of Ghost towns — empty, looted, degraded. The number of "towns" items scares. But what is even more frightening is the atmosphere that prevails there. People are constantly bombarded towns and villages due to the economic crisis or (more likely) due to natural disasters. And after them usually remains a scary desert, which at the time to make a horror movie. If you are planning to spend a holiday in an unusual place — Ghost town — you are welcome!

Dallol, Ethiopia

Once the Dallol was a prosperous mining town in the Ethiopian desert.

But its inhabitants left the city in the late 1960s.

Nova Sidad de Kilamba, Angola

Kilamba were built for 500,000 people, but now the population of the city is much smaller.

In 2013 sold a total of 220 apartments of the first batch completed (2800 units).

Kolmanskop, Namibia

This desert town in the southern African country was the result of a fever diamond mining in the region.

Once there was a casino, a hospital and a school. After the First world people abandoned the city, because the volume of diamond production declined sharply.

Pyramid, Svalbard, Norway

Sweden built this mining town in 1910, although he is in Norway. After that, the village was sold to Russia in 1927.

Russia was ruled by them until 1998. In this city is the northernmost statue of Lenin in the world.

Oradour-sur-Glane, France

This small village was destroyed in 1944 by the Germans. The Nazis made a real massacre they killed all 642 of the village's residents, including 205 children.

After the war, authorities decided to keep the village as a Museum under the open sky to pay tribute to what happened here.

Pegrema, Republic Of Karelia, Russia

This small Russian village was completely abandoned after the October revolution of 1917. Local dilapidated houses were a beautiful wooden image of pre-revolutionary architecture.

Chaitén, Chile

In may 2008, the village chandalar was completely evacuated, when very close began erupting volcano of the same name.

It was the first eruption of the volcano is over 9000 years old. After the eruption on the settlement came the flood.

Residential buildings in El Kinane, Spain

These residential buildings in the number 13 500 houses were built in the early 2000s, at the peak of the property boom.

The cost of undertaking almost $ 12 billion. In the end, it was sold only a few apartments, and the city is now abandoned.