From The Hunger Games to The Giver, I'm fascinated by a good dystopian story. However, I can't help but wonder what the world looks like outside of these societies. How many homes were left behind?
I imagine a lot of old cities would be abandoned, like the Rusty Ruins in Uglies. Our world already has a lot of abandoned places, like ghost towns and ruins. The pictures can be...unsettling, to say the least.
Here are 29 creepy pictures of abandoned ghost towns and ruins:
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This abandoned Soviet mining settlement:
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An old gym inside that same settlement:
3.
Kayaköy, a ghost town crumbling on a Turkish hillside:
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This Ukrainian hotel that was left behind after the Chernobyl disaster:
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An abandoned amusement park in Pripyat, which is close to the Chernobyl nuclear plant:
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Inside an abandoned preschool in Pripyat:
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The police station and church in the Colombian ghost town of La Siberia:
8.
One of the abandoned houses in La Siberia:
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And inside one of those abandoned houses:
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This gold-mining settlement-turned-ghost town in what is now California's Bodie State Historic Park:
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Inside the old church in Bodie:
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Kaymoor One Mine, an overgrown coal mining town in New River Gorge National Park, West Virginia:
13.
And another part of Kaymoor One Mine, which has been completely reclaimed by the trees:
14.
The Wild West ghost town of Shakespeare, New Mexico:
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A sheepherder's wagon left behind in Shakespeare:
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A room inside the Stratford Hotel in Shakespeare:
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This old cemetery in an American ghost town:
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And this ghost town cemetery somewhere in the deserts of the US:
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The ruins of this power plant on the Oder, a river on the German-Polish border:
20.
This abandoned house in what is now Italy's Cilento National Park:
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The Czech Republic's former "gateway to the world" in the Port of Hamburg:
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This Icelandic fish factory that lays in ruins:
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What's left of the old downtown area in Rankin, Illinois:
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The ruins of Celleno, a ghost village in Italy:
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A left-behind bike in Celleno:
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And the abandoned castle that crowns Celleno:
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This ghost town on an old US military training area in Germany:
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This town that was left to the elements in Nevada:
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And finally, Fabbriche di Careggine, a sunken city in Italy that only appears when Lake Vagli is drained:
