The world is full of abandoned cities, or ghost towns, where buildings remain standing while people have moved on.
Let's take a look at 10 abandoned cities around the world.
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World's 10 abandoned cities
Abandoned since: 1923
This place has been a virtual ghost town since the end of the Greco-Turkish War.
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World's 10 abandoned cities
Abandoned since: 1942
The town, over 8,000 feet up in the Sierra Nevadas, was a gold rush outpost.
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World's 10 abandoned cities
Abandoned since: 1960
Humberstone was once a bustling saltpeter refinery in the desert of northern Chile.
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World's 10 abandoned cities
Abandoned since: 10 or so people still live in Centralia.
In 1962, a fire broke out in a landfill near the Odd Fellows cemetery. The fire quickly spread through a hole to the coal mine beneath the city, and the fires have been burning ever since.
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World's 10 abandoned cities
Abandoned since: 1944
During World War II, the Nazi troops came upon Oradour-sur-Glane and completely destroyed it, killing 642 people.
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World's 10 abandoned cities
Abandoned since: 1974
During the industrial revolution in Japan, the Mitsubishi company built this island civilization around large coal deposits in the Nagasaki islands.
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World's 10 abandoned cities
Abandoned since: 1954
Once a successful diamond mining community, Kolmanskop is now a desert ghost town where the houses welcome only sand.
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World's 10 abandoned cities
Abandoned since: 1963
After being rocked by a number of earthquakes and subsequent landslides, Craco was abandoned for lower ground.
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World's 10 abandoned cities
Abandoned since: 1980
Sanzhi was originally a vacation resort catering to US servicemen north of Taipei.
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World's 10 abandoned cities
Abandoned since: 1986
After the Chernobyl reactor meltdown in 1986, Pripyat is an abandoned shell of a city frozen in a 1980's Soviet time-warp.
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