15 Largest Abandoned Cities on Earth

Cities long left abandoned. Skyscrapers left in solitude. There are some cities around the world that are completely abandoned. Today we're taking a look at the largest abandoned cities on Earth!

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[cmuchmore]

This was a very well produced vid. I really appreciated that it didn't have the blaring background music and computer generated narration.

[BarnaliD]

I wanted to see the city in the thumbnail but knew it wouldn't be there. Clickbait classic.

[alexandresantos]

Craco, Italy, looks a haunted place, spooky to be honest! No disrespect, because Italy is without a doubt one of the most beautiful countries in the world!

[itschelseakay]

I feel like normally it would be annoying to have inhabited cities included but it’s almost creepier than a completely abandoned city when you see a handful of cars driving through such huge metropolis’s. Turkmenistan’s capital was really fascinating!

[thestarmusic]

The first place shown is Craco, Italy but what they don't tell you here is that the main reason it was empty was the fault of the local authorities. A few years before everyone was forced to leave the town had new sewers installed and this upheaval of the ground is what caused the landslides, coupled with the fact that many newer building were not built into the rock and didn't have good foundations.

[DOT]

Abandoned: Having been deserted never to return.

*Proceeds to show cities still inhabited*

[annetteelliott]

It's amazing how quick mother nature grows

[dm]

I've been to Bodie, CA, more than once and your explanation/description is spot-on. Good job, thank you!

[boombastic]

"15 largest abandoned cities."
Proceeds to show us several cities not at all abandoned.

[russellthorburn]

"Thames town" is pronounced "Tems town" as in the Thames river (i.e. Tems river).

[hakshustletv]

Title: 15 largest abandoned cities on earth

Me: Places to move to

[acerevival]

50, 000 people use to live here, now it's a ghost town

[TsetsiStoyanova]

The only speaker voice i can listen to out loud in public, without anyone actually hearing it

[jake_camilleri]

I've been to Oradour. One of the most poingant things I've ever seen in my life. There is a memorial in the church, to the soldiers of the WW1, it is riddled with bullet holes and damage from WW2. That place has really stuck with me

[backgammonbacon]

15 Largest Abandoned Cities on Earth: Goes on to list 15 places that were never cities.

[jean-pierreannandale]

Pripyat, Ukraine is probably the most interesting place to go visit. Despite the tragedy that happened at Chernobyl and all the lost lives. May they rest in peace

[larry]

Excellent video! I thought I knew about most of the major abandoned cities in the world but about half of these I never heard of. I'm only disappointed that Centralia, PA wasn't on the list, home of an underground mine fire that began in 1962. The town (population 1000 in 1980, so I guess it wasn't large enough to be included in the video) was eventually bought out by the government in 1992. Not everyone wanted to leave, though, and in 2013 the government reached an agreement allowing the remaining residents to stay. Only about 5 residents remain - and the fire is still burning, 58 years later. The smoke comes out of vents in the ground. The remains of the city can easily be seen from Google Earth.

[minertrack]

Another city is next to Tzarevo, Bulgaria. It’s not finished but the build was stopped since the person who wanted to create this city arrested. And now we call it the dead city

[teckkroll]

I think you mixed two different Montserrat places, there’s a lot of the footage of up the hill Montserrat that is placed an hour train trip outside Barcelona

[BadgerOff]

Didn't even mention Burj Al Babas, the Turkish ghost town known as the 'Disney Village'? That place is crazy. It contains thousands of identical abandoned houses that all look like the Disney castle! It's surreal.