These forgotten sites are hauntingly beautiful.

1. This former slaughter house in Mesquite, Texas.

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2. This rusted Volkswagen Kombi van in Durmitor, Montenegro.

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3. This decrepit cinema in Bucharest, Romania.

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4. This abandoned outlet mall in Barstow, California where there are no deals to be found.

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5. This family home in Luxembourg that has gone untouched for years.

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Take a video tour of the abandoned house here.

6. This convent in Lyon, France that has been reclaimed by nature.

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7. This abandoned cabin in the woods that’s littered with creepy dolls.

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8. This eerie high school theater in southeast Kentucky.

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9. This bird’seye view of an abandoned prison in Rummu, Estonia.

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10. This dilapidated shopping mall in Akron, Ohio.

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11. This township schoolhouse overlooking the Bakken Oil Fields in North Dakota.

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12. This empty ranch house in Arizona’s Petrified Forest National Park.

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13. This overgrown putt putt golf course in western Kentucky.

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14. This former highway bridge in New Mexico that looks like something out of a zombie film.

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15. This abandoned church in the fog, as seen in Kampot, Cambodia.

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16. This frightening manor house at the Shining Cliffs, Derbyshire, England.

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17. This nightmarish staircase in an abandoned public building in Germany’s Ruhr Valley.

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18. This weathered entrance to a Victorian courtroom in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England.

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19. This former mining town in Colorado that was abandoned due to toxic pollutants and contaminated ground water.

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20. This graffitied cement factory in the town of Concrete, Washington.

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21. This decaying asylum in the woods of eastern Belgium.

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22. And this horrifying abandoned Naval Hospital in Charleston, South Carolina.

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23. This former mill on a mining complex in Leadville, Colorado that was built in 1890.

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24. This corroding control room in an abandoned power plant in Belgium.

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Watch the video tour here.

25. This fissured road in Centralia, Pennsylvania, where a mine fire has been burning underground for more than 50 years.

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26. This ghostly school gymnasium near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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27. This leaning cabin at Île-Bonaventure-et-du-Rocher-Percé National Park in Quebec.

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28. This foyer of a mansion in Munich, Germany that was formerly owned by the boss of a chocolate factory.

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29. This neglected general store in Dadeville, Alabama.

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30. This soon-to-be-demolished appliance factory in Mansfield, Ohio.

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31. And finally, this gorgeous abandoned villa in Savigliano, Italy that we’d love to explore.

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