Ghost Town
Varosha: The Abandoned Luxury Retreat in the Mediterranean
In the abandoned southern side of Cypriot City, Famagusta lies the deserted city of Varosha. It is quite famously known as the ‘Mediterranean’s best-kept secret’, quite an appropriate title taking into account the city’s fascinating ...
Dipanjana Mukherjee
Jul 02
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Kolmanskop: From Being the Richest Town to Now Being Devoured by the Desert
Kolmanskop is the name of a railway station in Namibia (Southern Africa). It lies 850 km south-west from Windhoek – the capital city of Namibia, and 10 km from a secluded seaside town called Lüderitz. ...
Bir Singh
Feb 14
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Pripyat, Ukraine: The Thriving Soviet Nuclear City That the Chernobyl Disaster Turned into a Ghost Town Overnight
Well-known as the city that evacuated the day after the Chernobyl Disaster, Pripyat is now a ghost town in northern Ukraine, near the Belarus border. It is a place where nobody lives anymore, and which ...
Sonal Panse
Jan 25
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