Abandoned places capture our imagination. From their history to their current dilapidated state, they never fail to invoke the curiosity within us.

Gubug Temple – Bali, Indonesia

Unfortunately due to heavy rainfall and flooding the surface of the lake rises above the temple.

An abandoned home surrounded by wheat fields – Oregon, USA

Vending machine brought in by the tsunami in abandoned rice field – Fukushima, Japan

A Russian soldier playing an abandoned piano – Chechnya, Russia (1994)

An abandoned railway – Illawarra, Australia

Kolmanskop, a ghost town in the Namib Desert – Namibia

Abandoned train depot – Czestochowa, Poland

Christ of the Abyss – San Fruttuoso, Italy

Mossy table tops at an abandoned hotel – Japan

The abandoned Wonderland Amusement Park – near Beijing, China

El Hotel Del Salto – Cundinamarca, Colombia

Holland Island – Maryland, USA

The remains of the Pegasus – Ross Island, Antarctica

An abandoned mill from 1866 – Sorrento, Italy

Bennet College, a women’s college, closed in 1978 – New York, USA

An abandoned sunken yacht – Antarctica

1984 Winter Olympics bobsleigh track – Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina

Lawndale Theater – Chicago, USA

Abandoned frozen Soviet submarine base – Russia

Abandoned “Domino Sugar” Factory – Brooklyn, USA