From a creepy Vietnamese water park to an even spookier haunted town in rural Canada,
here are 10 of the most mysterious and unknown abandoned places!
10: Abandoned Vietnam Water Park About 5 miles (1.6km) from the ancient Vietnamese
city of Hue, there is a creepy and mysterious abandoned water park called Ho Thuy Tien.
The water park had a primary theme of dragons, which means it is riddled with strange, decaying
rides and attractions made to look like legendary dragons.
The story of the abandoned water park is a weird one.
Construction began in 2001 with a total budget of 30 million US dollars!
The park’s goal was to promote tourism in the region.
There was supposed to be an aquarium, an amphitheater, food courts, games, and all the fun stuff
a person would expect from your typical amusement park.
It was completed in 2004 and had pretty much none of those things.
After being in operation for only a few months, with tourist numbers too low to even keep
the doors open, the place shut down and was abandoned.
In 2013, another company acquired the park and tried to revamp it, but eventually these
plans failed too.
Those who live near the park fear that it’s haunted since the land it was constructed
on was once home to temples and tombs of former Vietnam emperors
Today, it's just a mysterious park and a sad reminder of one ambitious designer’s broken
dreams.
But it is unofficially explorable, making it a dream destination for urban explorers
and dragon enthusiasts.
Enter at your own risk though, since security guards still roam the premises.
They have been known to let explorers off the hook though, at the price of a small bribe.
9: Beelitz Heilstatten Military Hospital The Beelitz Heilstatten Military Hospital
is a place of nightmares.
It's located in Germany and has been abandoned for about 25 years.
The hospital's past goes way further back than that though.
It was a military hospital in use during World War One and World War Two.
Adolf Hitler was even a patient here in the hospital when he was a young man.
Today, the hospital is filled with the spooky ghosts of fallen soldiers and the lingering
agony they suffered within its halls.
At one time, the hospital was the biggest treatment center anywhere on the globe for
tuberculosis.
As you may already know, tuberculosis was a terrible affliction that caused great pain,
so it's no surprise that plenty of people ended up dying in the old beds which are still
rotting away in the hospital – and that their ghosts stuck around too.
Dying from tuberculosis was not a fun affair, so they may harbor some resentment about their
passing.
After the two world wars, the Soviet military occupied the hospital for about 50 years.
They abandoned the site in 1995, leaving a select portion of the facility that was still
in good shape to be used for research and rehabilitation.
But part of the hospital is still untouched since it’s peak days, no one except for
ghost hunters and photographers have entered since.
8: Underground Beijing There is a secret underground world beneath
the streets of Beijing.
It's known locally as Dixia Cheng, and it's a labyrinth of abandoned catacombs, tunnels,
and chambers stretching across 33 square miles(85km) of creepy hell.
Some have nicknamed it the Great Underground Wall of China simply because of how vast and
mysterious it is.
From what historical records tell us, Beijing's underground was carved by hand by locals in
the 1970s to be used as a shelter in case of an invasion or nuclear attack.
Once it was completed, there were about 90 entrances scattered throughout the city, usually
hidden in the basements of homes and businesses.
But it wasn't all grim at the time.
There were barber shops, classrooms, and even a movie theater all created within the labyrinth
to entertain possible refugees.
There has to be some sense of normalcy in the case of a nuclear apocalypse.
There were also special tunnels designed to hold grain for food storage and others used
to hold weapons.
There were even outcrops in the tunnels to be used for farming crops that require no
sunlight like mushrooms.
But alas, the bombs never fell and the shelters were never used, for their intended purpose
at least.
The underground turned into an abandoned ruin and faded into obscurity.
A few portions of the underground were opened in the 2000s for tourists, but most of the
vast complex is still out of bounds.
And to be honest, nobody really knows what the closed tunnels are being used for today.
7: Chapel of Our Lady of Victories The Chapel of our Lady of Victories, or Igreja
da Nossa Senhora das Vitorias in Portuguese, is a fantastic funerary chapel in the small
village of Furnas, Portugal.
It was the creation of Jose do Canto, who decided to build the impressive chapel as
the final resting place for him and his wife.
Jose’s wife just so happened to be an heiress to a local wine maker that happened to also
be extremely wealthy, which helped them fund the elaborate tomb.
The project began in 1864 and was designed by the architect Andre Breton.
It was one of the most impressive chapels in the area, with amazing neo-gothic styles
and beautiful stained-glass windows.
There was a solemn inauguration in August 1886 and shortly after Jose died, he was buried
inside the crypt alongside his wife.
But that was the end of the chapel’s life as well, and really it's only constructed
purpose.
With the couple buried within its walls, the church was abandoned and left as an architectural
landmark on the outskirts of town.
It's still there today, very slowly getting uglier and uglier with minimal upkeep.
Still, it's shockingly gorgeous in its despondent state.
Jose and his wife are still buried in the crypt, forever together as beloved husband
and wife.
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6: Miranda Castle Miranda Castle, also known as Chateau de Noisy,
is located in Belgium.
It is one of the creepiest, most mysterious, and most straight-up frightening castles anywhere
in Europe.
It was built with towers, gothic details, conical roofs, and approximately 500 windows.
It even has a clock tower that stands over 183 feet(55.7m) tall.
The castle reached completion in 1907 and was filled with lush, landscaped gardens and
beautiful artworks.
It was used as the summer residence for the Liedekerke family.
When World War Two came, the castle became occupied by German troops.
It was used during the Battle of the Bulge and even saw a bit of the fighting.
Then in 1950, the castle became a holiday camp for children in poor health.
Due to its remote location, the castle provided fresh air and enough outdoor space for the
children to play.
During this time, children between the ages of 5 and 14 from various European countries
such as France, Finland, Italy, and of course Belgium, resided here.
In other words, it became the last vacation spot for all sorts of children who were already
marked for death.
Several years later, Miranda Castle was no longer used for anything and was left to its
fate.
It cost too much to maintain the castle and it was ultimately abandoned in 1991.
Since then, the castle has caught on fire, part of the roof even fell in, and it's just
gotten worse since then.
The castle is now spooky, dangerous to venture inside of, and slowly collapsing.
5: The Greenbrier Bunker Carved into the side of a mountain in West
Virginia is an emergency fallout shelter with a mysterious past.
It's known as the Greenbrier Bunker, and it's housed underneath the floor of the Greenbrier
Resort in West Virginia.
The resort itself opened its doors in 1778 and became the hot place to stay in West Virginia
for celebrities and presidents.
The bunker wasn't installed until much later, in 1958.
The resort was used only as a disguise.
Beneath the structure, workers dug a tunnel into the mountain 720 feet(219.4m) deep.
The bunker was completed in 1961 and maintained by a small group of undercover government
employees who worked at the hotel as video technicians.
If you think the government doesn’t have at least half a dozen secret installations
all over the country, think again!
The massive bunker boasts 112,544 square feet(34,303m) of space.
The facility was active for about 30 years.
The plan was that in the case of a dramatic emergency or catastrophic failure of civilization,
all 535 members of Congress would be evacuated to the Greenbrier Resort and then safely stored
in the bunker.
Its amenities included 25 ton(50,000lbs) doors able to withstand 50 lbs(22.67kg) of blast
power, a power plant, decontamination chambers, a laboratory, a pharmacy, fuel tanks, and
even a communications room.
While it remained active, the technology and equipment in the bunker was regularly updated
to remain ready for an emergency.
The facility remained a secret until 1992 when the Washington Post published a detailed
article about it.
After that, the government admitted that there was an abandoned bunker beneath the resort
and since then, it's been open for tourists as a historic facility.
Who knows what other secret facilities the government is hiding?
4: The SS American Star The SS American Star was a transatlantic liner
with a rather mysterious life.
It spent the last 10 years of its existence abandoned and broken on the banks of Fuerteventura,
one of the Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean.
The story of the ship starts way back in 1938 when the SS America became the flagship of
the United States Lines as a luxury way to travel comfortably across the sea.
But with the war looming, it was scrapped as a transatlantic liner and put into the
U.S. Navy’s service.
That’s when it changed its name to USS West Point.
The boat would go through seven more name changes.
From 1938 to 1995, the boat continued to change names and change hands.
It ended up being the SS American Star in 1993 after a company from Thailand purchased
the vessel for $2 million.
They wanted to restore it to its former glory and use the thing as a tourist attraction.
But on the way to Thailand, disaster struck and the boat ran aground on the rocky shore
of Fuerteventura.
Trying to get the boat back to Thailand proved too much work and the company abandoned the
vessel.
Nobody else felt like moving it, and so it sat just a few feet from the beach, tipped
over on its side as it slowly rusted and eventually broke apart, finally deteriorating completely
back in 2010.
3: Villa Epecuen In the early part of the 1920s, a small tourist
village was constructed along the shores of Lago Epecuen, a very remote salt lake in Argentina.
It became the resort town of Villa Epecuen, with its own railroad station and a population
that peaked in the 1970s at around 5000 people.
But here's where things get crazy.
The weather began to change.
When way more rain than the area was used to began to fall.
And it didn't stop falling.
By 1985, the lake had grown too big.
It broke through the dam protecting the small tourist village, flooding the entire town.
By 1993, the village was submerged under 30 feet(9m) of water.
This was one of the first cases in modern history where a town was flooded and abandoned
due to rainwater.
By 2009, the waters had receded enough for the town to be viewable once more.
Villa Epecuen can now be seen from the air, though it’s hardly any use to anyone at
this point.
The town spent 25 years abandoned underwater.
It will probably never be lived in again.
2: Nemiskam Ghost Town Nemiskam is one of the creepiest ghost towns
in all of Canada.
It began life as a small community called Bringham, in southern Alberta.
But when the newly built railway ended up being installed near the town, the residents
picked up their belongings and settled in what became Nemiskam, about a mile to the
southwest.
Here, the community prospered fairly well up until the 1960s.
They had a community hall, grain elevators for commerce, a school, and a small service
station.
In 1960, the town had a population of about 54.
Just a little later in 1966, the population had plummeted to 17.
The majority of people in the town had committed a mass exodus, picking up and setting off
to find a better way to live.
Shortly after this, the grain elevators were shut down, decimating the community for the
final time.
By the 1990s, Nemiskam was a dead ghost town with only about 6 buildings still standing
and the only residents being creepy, possibly inbred hermit weirdos.
1: Smirnykh Air Base There is a mysterious abandoned air base near
the small Russian village of Sakhalin.
It's called Smirnykh, and so far as anyone can tell at least, it's been abandoned for
quite some time.
The air base first appeared on U.S. radar back in 1966.
Intelligence operatives found out it had a runway of about 6000 feet(1828.8m) and was
host to a small stockpile of advanced aerial weaponry.
When U.S. intelligence looked again a few years later, the base had expanded and gotten
almost twice as large.
Then in 1983 when Korean Air flight 007 was shot out of the air by the Russians, it was
assumed they had scrambled fighter aircraft from Smirnykh.
Nobody is sure exactly when the airbase was abandoned for good, but it was probably around
the collapse of the Soviet Union in the 1990s when a lot of similar bases were left overnight
and nobody ever returned.
Today, the airfield and runways are overgrown and unmaintained.
There are also a handful of MiG-23 fighter aircraft sitting idle in their hangars, left
behind and neglected for time to do its work.
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