Fascinating Abandoned Places Taken Over By Nature
Cool Abandoned Places
There’s always something interesting about the ruins of past civilizations. The history of those who came before and all that. But you can even find creepy awesome places that have been empty for only 10 or 20 years. Mother Nature works fast when it comes time for her to reclaim her territory. Even with all our human progress, sometimes you just can’t get in her way. So let’s go full Indiana Jones on this and look at some cool abandoned places that nature took back. Check out how many haunted houses, ancient ruins, and radioactive roller coasters we found.Craco, Italy
This picturesque Italian town was abandoned after being plagued by natural disasters like landfills and floods. Sometimes when nature is telling you to move, the best thing to do is listen!
Anyway, the buildings remain standing, and the only inhabitants are the movie crews that use it for movie shoots.
Bongoland, Florida
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In the 1940s, Dr. Jerry Sperger leased some land near Daytona Beach that had, in the past, been a plantation. This dude was super into dinosaurs and had a bunch of money from being the first dermatologist in the area.
So, naturally, he built a bunch of pretty wonky sculptures of prehistoric beasts on the parkland. Also naturally, it wasn’t really a draw for anyone, and Bongoland closed five years after it opened.
The area is a park now, and the sculptures have been left to stay or decay as they will.
Oradour-sur-Glane, France
On June 10th, 1944, 642 residents of the small French village of Oradour-sur-Glane were murdered by the Nazis in a show of force against the French Resistance.
They shot men, women, and children alike in the legs so their deaths would be lingering and painful. Although a new village was built nearby after the war, the old one remains as a memorial to those lost.
Kolmanskop, Namibia
Go a few miles inland from the Namibian port of Laderitz and you’ll stumble upon what used to be a mining town. In 1956 after the diamond demand declined (and probably amidst some other shady colonial slave labor shit) everyone left.
What’s left is gradually being buried in the sand.