The 15 Most TERRIFYING ABANDONED Cities in the World

The 15 Most TERRIFYING ABANDONED Cities in the World Schools, churches, plazas and thousands of residents who one day were simply gone. On this journey, we visit the 15 most terrifying abandoned cities in the world, from a town that rose back out of the water to a city where the ground has been burning from within for decades. We travel through flooded resort towns, sliding stone villages, saltpeter works in the desert, Arctic mining towns and places buried under ash, cement or waste. We tell who lived in them, what emptied them, from natural disasters and political treaties to contamination and the end of an industry, and what state they are in today. We also look at the legends that surround them, always separating what is story from what is documented.