In today's photogallery we will take a somewhat eerie tour and visit ghost towns around the world. The reasons why people abandon their homes are different in every case, but the places always carry messages from their last inhabitants.
The ghost town of Bodie – California
Old gas station in ghost town along the route 66
Founded in 1881 as a silver mining town, today Calico is a ghost town in San Bernardino County, California, United States
Goldfield Ghost town, USA
Abandoned houses and ruins of Kayakoy village, Fethiye, Turkey
The island Gunkanjima, Japan was populated as a coal mining town from 1887 and abandoned in 1974.
Ghost town Kolmanskop, Namibia
China zhejiang shengsi shengshan Island fishermen have relocated and become a ghost village
Sicilian Ghost Town of Poggioreale in Italy
Buildings of Pripyat, Chernobyl
Pentedattilo, a ghost town in Calabria, southern Italy
Street of the ghost town of Bolama, the former capital of Portuguese Guinea
Ghost village in andean plateau, Bolivia
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