10 Most Amazing Ghost Towns

Kolmanskop is a ghost town in southern Namibia, a few kilometres inland from the port of Lüderitz. In 1908, Luederitz was plunged into diamond fever and people rushed into the Namib desert hoping to make an easy fortune. Within two years, a town, complete with a casino, school, hospital and exclusive residential buildings, was established in the barren sandy desert. But shortly after the drop in diamond sales after the First World War, the beginning of the end started. During the 1950's the town was deserted and the dunes began to reclaim what was always theirs.

PRYPIAT (Ukraine): Chernobyl workers' home

Prypiat is an abandoned city in the Zone of alienation in northern Ukraine. It was home to the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant workers, abandoned in 1986 following the Chernobyl disaster. Its population had been around 50,000 prior to the accident.

KADYKCHAN (Russia): memories of the Soviet Union

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7 Comments

by missjackson on 7-19-2008 2:44 PM

nice!

by bignosemousie on 7-19-2008 2:57 PM

The first few are spooky.

by Socratoad on 7-19-2008 3:54 PM

Hence the name "Ghost Towns"

by rahal1122 on 7-19-2008 9:26 PM

thanks I would like to visit all of this town

by ballistick on 7-21-2008 11:23 AM

Awesome Clip! I'm an avid player of Call of Duty 4, and one the missions in the game is set in Prypiat, Ukraine. I can't beleive how close the game is to these pictures, you can really see where they get there inspiration.

Frikkin Awesome!!

by chornobyl on 7-22-2008 6:37 AM

I would like to add town number 11 - it's a secret millitary town in chernobyl alienation zone.
It's Chernobyl-2.
More detail here - http://www.chornobyl.in.ua/chernobyl-2.htm

by Socratoad on 7-22-2008 4:03 PM

WOW what a revealing informative link!

Thank you very much chornobyl.