55 Super Creepy Pictures Of Abandoned Places That Are Giving Me The Chills
Have you ever driven past an abandoned house or mall and wondered what's left? Urban explorers are people who actually venture inside. And while you may be too afraid to actually enter an abandoned place yourself, the photos are utterly fascinating.
Here are 55 creepy pictures from abanonded places:
1. This decaying kindergarten in Kopachi, a ghost town near Chernobyl:
2. The deserted swim hall at the 1936 Berlin Olympic Village:
3. A cabinet of autopsy results in Ospedale al Mare, an abandoned hospital in Venice:
4. This abandoned home in New Orleans:
5. This abandoned Hollywood Hills mansion, which once belonged to John Powers Middleton (whose billionaire father owns the Phillies):
6. This strange graffiti inside a deserted school:
7. The abandoned Galaxy Ghost Ship Hotel, from the Koh Chang Laguna resort in Thailand:
8. And here's the Galaxy after it caught on fire in 2024:
9. And here's a close-up:
10. These abandoned homes that have been reclaimed by nature in China:
11. These forlorn UFO-shaped houses in Taiwan:
12. And a closer look inside one of the UFOs:
13. This hallway in the old hospital wing on Ellis Island:
14. Inside the allegedly haunted Waverly Hills Sanatorium in Louisville:
15. This forgotten chateau in France:
16. And inside the chateau's dining room:
17. Decaying decor from the shutdown theme park Wonderland Eurasia in Turkey:
18. And more ruins from Wonderland Eurasia:
19. This abandoned Range Rover in the woods of England:
20. And here's a look inside the car:
21. This crumbling Alpenhaus at Beelitz-Heilstätten, an old lung sanatorium in Germany:
22. The derelict dining room inside the Alpenhaus:
23. Vela Gialla, a skyscraper that was reportedly the Neapolitan mafia's stronghold in Italy:
24. Savaşan village, a sunken city in Turkey that's underwater because of a dam that was built:
25. This field of forsaken electric cars in China:
26. This forlorn factory in Germany:
27. These derelict phonebooths in London:
28. This forgotten bike-sharing yard in China:
29. This deserted house on Sazan Island in Albania:
30. This deserted motel along Route 66 in California:
31. This empty pool inside an abandoned Soviet mining settlement:
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32. This sailboat in Panama that the fish have reclaimed:
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33. This abandoned playboy mansion:
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34. The decaying Fort Wayne Hotel ballroom in Detroit:
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35. This vacant village in in Germany:
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36. This empty pool at a mansion that used to belong to a police chief in Mexico:
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37. This deserted pub in London:
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38. This waterlogged mall in Bangkok:
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39. This forsaken train station in Spain:
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40. This room filled with gas masks at Chernobyl:
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41. Inside the auditorium of an abandoned high school in Detroit:
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42. A derelict doctor's office in the ghost town of Humberstone, Chile:
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43. And this old church in Humberstone:
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44. These abandoned mascots from the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games:
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45. This deserted mall in North Macedonia:
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46. This preschool that was left behind in Pripyat after Chernobyl:
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47. This decaying swing ride at an abandoned amusement park in Cyprus:
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48. These old Soviet space shuttles that were left inside an old launch site in Kazakhstan:
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49. This crumbling church in England:
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50. This pool in a deserted mansion:
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51. The shopping carts rusting inside an abandoned supermarket in the ghost town of Pripyat, Ukraine:
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52. This decaying motel in the California desert:
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53. This abandoned power station in London:
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54. The desolate restaurant in the Plimhimmon Hotel in Maryland:
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55. And finally, this abandoned admin office in Norway:
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