spookiest abandoned places

Abandoned ever since hurricane Katrina, some of the rides are still standing.

Built in 1869 and closed in 1995 most of the patients in this insane asylum died within its walls.

After the Chernobyl Reactor meltdown the city was abandoned due to nuclear fallout and it will probably remain abandoned for quite some time to come.

This massive hole was dug by Stalin in order to mine for diamonds. It was proved too difficult to continue mining, however, and efforts were eventually abandoned.

A testament to North Koreas insanity, construction began during a famine. Not surprisingly the building was never finished although they did eventually manage to coat it with glass to make it look more presentable.

Located in the Valley of the Mills in Sorrento, Italy, this mill was abandoned in the year 1866. It became isolated from the sea due to the construction of Tasso Square, which caused a rise in the humidity of the surrounding area and left it desolate and spooky.

The Hotel De Salto opened in 1928 in Columbia, with the Tequendema Falls being close by, to serve tourists who came to admire the 157 meter-tall waterfall. The hotel had to be shut down in the early 1990s after people visiting the waterfall suddenly lost interest. In 2012, the site was transformed into a museum. It is thought to be haunted which makes it even more spookier.

Built in 1910 for the Polish Royalty, this castle was a beauty within itself imbibing stories of kings and queens in all their royal heritage. But that century turned out to be a time of uncertainty for the country. The communist rule transformed the palace into an agricultural school, as well as a home for mentally handicapped adults and children. The palace that once sung of the Polish royalty was abandoned following the fall of the USSR.

Kolmanskop was a very small settlement in Namibia that suddenly grew and flourished in the early 1900s when German settlers found the area to be booming with diamonds. But, eventually, the craze for wealth gave out after World War I when the diamond fields began to deplete. By the 1950s, the town was completely deserted, and is now visited only by photographers and tourists.

This spooky looking ghost ship is the Mar Sem Fim a Brazilian yacht that was wrecked near Ardley Cove in Antarctica. A Brazilian crew had taken it to film a documentary, but fell victim to strong winds, forcing the crew to abandon the yacht. The water that washed over the ship froze, cracked its hull and eventually sunk the yacht, but it has since been salvaged.