1. Kolmanskop (Namibia): Buried in sand
Kolmanskop is a ghost town in southern Namibia, a few kilometers from the port of Luderitz. In the 1908 Luderitz diamond fever, and people then go to the Namib desert to get rich easily. In the past two years created a magnificent city with all the infrastructure, such as casinos, schools, hospitals, also with an exclusive residential buildings that stood on the land that was once a barren desert.
But after the first world war, buying and selling diamonds to a standstill, it is the beginning of the end of everything. Throughout the 1950s the city began to be abandoned, the sand began to reclaim what is theirs. Solid metal board collapsed, pretty gardens and tidy streets were buried under the sand, windows and doors bergeretak on each hinge, window panes split widened as shown destruction in the towering sand. A new ghost town had been born, to date still seems a pair banguna standing, there is also the building as a theater is still in very good condition, and the remaining houses were destroyed and crushed sand into a row of houses a scary ghost.
Kolmanskop is a ghost town in southern Namibia, a few kilometers from the port of Luderitz. In the 1908 Luderitz diamond fever, and people then go to the Namib desert to get rich easily. In the past two years created a magnificent city with all the infrastructure, such as casinos, schools, hospitals, also with an exclusive residential buildings that stood on the land that was once a barren desert.
But after the first world war, buying and selling diamonds to a standstill, it is the beginning of the end of everything. Throughout the 1950s the city began to be abandoned, the sand began to reclaim what is theirs. Solid metal board collapsed, pretty gardens and tidy streets were buried under the sand, windows and doors bergeretak on each hinge, window panes split widened as shown destruction in the towering sand. A new ghost town had been born, to date still seems a pair banguna standing, there is also the building as a theater is still in very good condition, and the remaining houses were destroyed and crushed sand into a row of houses a scary ghost.
2. Pripyat (Ukraine): Chernobyl workers' home
Prypiat is a major city in remote areas of northern Ukraine, a residential area of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant workers. This area is dead since the Chernobyl nuclear disaster that claimed nearly 50,000. After the incident, the location is convenient as a museum, a part of Soviet history. Apartment buildings (four are buildings that have not been occupied), swimming pools, hospitals, and many other buildings were destroyed. And all content contained in these buildings left in it, such as archives, TV, toys, furniture, valuables, clothing and other property all like most families in general. Residents should only take important documents, books and clothes that are not contaminated by nuclear.However, since the 21st century, there is no longer any valuables left behind, even the seating dikamar kecilpun taken by looters, many of the buildings that it robbed from year to year. The building is no longer maintained, with a leaking roof, and the interior of the building flooded in the rainy season, making the city truly become a ghost town. We could see the trees growing on the roof, a tree that grows in the home.
3. Craco (Italy): a fascinating medieval town
lies Craco province of Matera and Basilicata region about 25 miles from the Gulf of Taranto.This medieval town has a typical area filled with undulating hills and farms of wheat and other crops. Year 1060 when Craco land owned by the bishop of the diocese leader Arnaldo Tricarico. Longstanding relationship with the church that much influence to the entire population. In 1891 Craco population of more than 2000 people, the time they hit a lot of social problems and poverty that many make them desperate, between the years 1892 and 1922 about 1300 people move to North America. Poor agricultural conditions coupled with natural disasters earthquakes, landslides, and war is what caused them to migrate en masse. Between 1959 and 1972 Craco again rocked by earthquakes and landslides. In 1963 the remaining population of about 1300 people eventually moved to a valley near Craco Peschiera, and until now the original Craco still left in ruins and decay leaving remnants of its population.
4. Oradour-sur-Glance (France): the horror of WWII
Ghetto small Oradour Sul Glane in France showed a very terrible state conditions. During World War II, 642 residents were massacred by German soldiers as a form of retaliation for the French treatment time. Germany who was actually intending to attack the region near Sul Glane Oradour but eventually they attacked the small settlement on June 10, 1944.according to the testimony of those who survived, the male population is inserted into a warehouse and German soldiers opened fire on their feet and eventually they die slowly.Women and children were entered into the church, eventually all the dead were shot as they tried to get out of the church. The village was completely destroyed the German army at that time. And to this day the ruins of the village is still standing, and witnessed how cruel events that occurred at that time.
5. Gunkanjima (Japan): the forbidden island
This island is one of the 505 uninhabited islands in the Nagasaki area Administratsi Japan, about 15 kilometers from Nagasaki. The island is also known as "Gunkan Jima" or the island of warships. In 1890 when a company (Mitsubishi) bought the island and began a project to get coal from the seabed around the island. In 1916 they were the first large concrete building on the island, an apartment block built for the workers and also serves to protect them from hurricanes. In 1959, the island's population swelled, overcrowding when it reached 835 people per hectare for the whole island (1391 per hectare for residential central area), a densest population ever in the whole world. replace coal when kerosene in 1960, coal mines began closing, not least in Gunkan Jima, in 1974 Mitsubishi officially announced closure of the mine, and finally emptied the island. In 2003 the island as a setting dimbil film " Battle Royal II "and inspired a popular game" Killer7 ".
