Top 10 Abandoned Cities You Can Visit!

Top 10 Abandoned Cities You Can Visit!

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Top 10 Abandon Cities that You Can Visit!
When you think of ghost towns, you probably imagine some abandoned mining town in the Old West, complete with dusty saloons and tumbleweeds, right?

Well, we’re going to have to disappoint you!

Empty cities can be found far beyond where the hypothetical buffalos and wild west horses roam—we're talking some of the farthest stretches of the planet.

Their abandonment stories are just as varied: villages crumbling during earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, entire cities evacuated after nuclear disasters, towns being taken over in wartime.

With that being said, let’s have a look at 10 of the most incredible abandoned cities in the world that you can visit!!
10. Tianducheng, China
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Built as an enormous luxury housing development, Tianducheng emulates the famous French city of lights in everything from the period-correct architecture to the 300-foot tall miniature Eiffel Tower.

It even has a replica fountain from the Luxembourg Gardens.

With the capacity for over 10,000 residents, the city has remained mostly abandoned except for the employees of a nearby French-themed amusement park, according to City Lab.
9. Ruby, Arizona
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Standing as one of the best-preserved ghost towns in the American Southwest, Ruby, Arizona remains as a reminder of the Wild West. With a mine founded in the 1870s that produced gold, silver, lead, zinc, and copper, Ruby officially became a town when it opened its first post office in 1910.

Wild West history buffs aren't the only people interested in Ruby, true-crime aficionados and nature lovers should be fascinated with Ruby as well!

The town and the surrounding area are sites where three horrific double homicides known as the Ruby Murders took place. These led to one of the largest manhunts in Southwest history.

The judge at the time, Judge W.A. O'Connor, reportedly said, "The crimes of which you have been convicted are perhaps the cruelest ever committed in Arizona. Let the punishment that awaits you serve as a warning to others who may contemplate the commission of similar crimes."

The mines are now home to an enormous colony of Mexican free-tail bats. The giant cloud of bats can be seen rushing from the mine entrances at sundown during the summer.

Officially abandoned in 1940, the remains of Ruby now reside on private land and remain one of the best-preserved western towns in the US.
8. Wittenoom, Australia
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Founded in 1946, Wittenoom was born as a mining town in Western Australia. The nearby gorge was brimming with blue asbestos; an important raw building material in the early 20th century. By the early 1950s, Wittenoom was the largest town in the Pilbara region.

Amid growing health concerns, the declining demand for asbestos led to the mine closing in 1966 with most of the residents moving away to find other work.

Wittenoom was officially closed in 2007 and the Australian government took steps to limit access to the former mining town and removed it from all official maps

Due to the nature of the mining that took place there, asbestos fibers are still found in the topsoil and air around Wittenoom making it dangerous to spend too much time in the town.

According to a documentary released in December 2019, just one resident remains.

7. Varoosha, Cyprus
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It isn't often that a tourist destination frequented by the likes of Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Raquel Welch, and Brigitte Bardot becomes a ghost town. But that's exactly what happened to the Varosha section of Famagusta in Cyprus.

Throughout the early 1970s, Varosha was one of the most popular tourist destinations in the world, according to BBC. In 1974, Turkey invaded Cypru

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