There have been numerous attempts to broker a deal that will once again open up Varosha, but nothing has been agreed upon. It has been fenced off, and nobody but military and UN personnel are allowed into the once beautiful tourist destination. As the opposing Turkish and Greek armies descended on the area around Varosha, the residents fled for their lives.Īccording to BBC, Varosha has remained abandoned and under the control of the Turkish Military since 1974. Throughout the early 1970s, Varosha was one of the most popular tourist destinations in the world, according to BBC. But that's exactly what happened to the Varosha section of Famagusta in Cyprus. It isn't often that a tourist destination frequented by the likes of Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Raquel Welch, and Brigitte Bardot becomes a ghost town. Officially abandoned in 1940, the remains of Ruby now reside on private land and remains one of the best-preserved western towns in the US. The giant cloud of bats can be seen rushing from the mine entrances at sundown during the summer. The mines are now home to an enormous colony of Mexican free-tail bats. Let the punishment that awaits you serve as a warning to others who may contemplate the commission of similar crimes." O'Connor reportedly said, "The crimes of which you have been convicted are perhaps the cruelest ever committed in Arizona. Of the crime, the judge at the time, Judge W.A. These led to one of the largest manhunts in Southwest history, according to Legends of America. The town and the surrounding area were the sites of three horrific double homicides known as the Ruby Murders. Wild West history buffs aren't the only people interested in Ruby, true crime aficionados and nature lovers should be fascinated with Ruby as well. Zinc, and copper, Ruby officially became a town when it opened its first post office in 1910. With a mine founded in the 1870s that produced gold, silver, lead, Standing as one of the best-preserved ghost towns in the American Southwest, Ruby, Arizona remains as a reminder of the Wild West. It is unclear whether the government in Beijing will rebuild it or just let it go into further decay.A school remains desolate after being abandoned in 1940. They erected fences with warnings and forbade the return of any residents.”įinally, the city of Beichuan in China was leveled by an earthquake which left thousands of dead and tens of thousands of people homeless. WebUrbanist says, “In the 1970s.the Turkish invaded and claimed the tourist territory as their own. The next is the area of Famagusta also known as Varosha. One of the strangest features of the abandonment is strange quizzes scrawled on the walls of many of the buildings since the area’s desertion-Myst-like puzzles in a likewise abandoned village.” Next we have the deserted village of Castelnuovo in Tuscany which, according to WebUrbanist, is “thinly guarded by a half-broken fence. The population has dropped to 2,000 as of the year 2000, but as people left, efforts have been made to preserve the historic buildings in the village.įollowing is a Soviet gulag which was once used as a work and prison camp and today is completely abandoned. The last residents were evacuated in the 1960s.Ĭairo, Illinois is a 19th-century small town. Next is the walled medieval town of Craco, which is an abandoned Italian village deserted due to plagues, drought and earthquakes. Due to constant earthquakes, the residents were moved out decades ago. Next is the town of Balestrino, which is located high on a bluff in the Italian province of Savona. The city was abandoned following the Apnuclear meltdown in Chernobyl, within the Soviet Union. Next comes a Pripyat a city near the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. The cultural lore of the nearby towns believe the houses are haunted and people stay away from them. However, construction had to be halted because of multiple problems. The circular orange structures in Taiwan were supposed to be futuristic holiday villages on the water. Kowloon Walled City is a tiny Chinese enclave that was located in the middle of British Hong Kong for decades. Let me offer a little history of all the cities and villages in the gallery: These, for the most part, are towns from modern times that were deserted for various reasons. And I’m not talking about ancient lost Mayan cities. Abandoned cities, towns and villages abound all over the world.
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