Spooky Destinations – Ghost Towns and Abandoned Sites
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With Halloween coming up at the end of October, today we are featuring some spooky ghost town locations and abandoned sites – some of these places have been deserted for many years but others are more recently abandoned.
For other ghost town locations, click here to read Oddee.com’s 10 Most Amazing Ghost Towns article about these fascinating windows to the past.
Bodie, California, USA – a formerly booming mining town in what was once the American “Wild West,” Bodie has been deserted for more than fifty years but many of its original buildings remain.
Photo credit: Ekke Vasli
Deception Island, Antarctica – an abandoned whaling station in the middle of Antarctica…does it get any more desolate and isolated than this?
Photo credit: willi_hybrid
Gunkanjima Island, Japan – once one of the most densely populated areas on earth, this coal mining town on an island off the coast of Nagasaki is now completely abandoned and has been featured in many films and video games. Now, all that’s left standing are empty relics of this industrial town.
Photo credit: snotch
Have you been to any abandoned locations? For me they hold an interesting opportunity to look back at the past at an era frozen in time, and I look forward to seeing and photographing some of these locations in my travels.
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