INCREDIBLY Beautiful Abandoned Places

Alright, so who’s ready for a little journey? A journey that takes us places that not many people have visited recently and once upon a time abandoned altogether. From the beautiful to the spooky and beyond, I’m here to present to you Incredibly Beautiful Abandoned Places.

6. Wonderland Amusement Park in Beijing, China
This amusement park wasn’t just abandoned, but it was never even completed in the first place! Located in Chenzhuang Village in the Changping District, China, this 120-acre park saw construction halted in 1998 after some financial problems with some local officials. The Chinese tried to pick up where they left on in 2008, worked to kick-start construction again, and failed once more. This place was apparently not meant to be! Multiple structures were completed, including medieval-themed buildings and the framework of a giant, castle-like building. The site was finally demolished in 2013, and a shopping mall was built on the land in 2015. We kind of wish they’d left the abandoned amusement park to sit there because sometimes nature and animals need a place to go for entertainment and joy too!


5. Cape Romano Dome House
This neat, Star Wars-looking house was built on Caxambas(cashambas) Island in Cape Romano in Florida back in 1980. Bob Lee, a retired oil producer, purchased for side-by-side plots on the island and made his vacation home there, using a barge that he bought to get supplies to and from the small island. Although not finished until 1982, the house became the Lee family’s second home for the next two years. In 1984, the family sold the place to another family, who eventually had to leave due to financial struggles. The Lee’s took possession of the home again in 1987 and lived there full-time until 1992 when Hurricane Andrew hit and destroyed the interior. It was the death-dealing blow, and they decided it was time to skedaddle and abandoned the inhabitable dome house. In September 2017, Hurricane Irma entered the area and helped in collapsing two of the five domes into the ocean. The other three are still standing and are still abandoned to this day. So much for a beautiful, peaceful, quiet vacation home.

4. Kolmanskop
Anybody interested in visiting a ghost town? Well, if you then look no further than Kolmanskop, an old village located in the Namib desert in Namibia. It was once a prosperous little mining village but is now a hotspot for tourists flocking from everywhere to take in the abandoned location. Settlement began in 1908 when a worker named Zacharias Lewala found a diamond in the area, and it was determined that the site was rich in diamonds. The town built up and included a ballroom, school, theatre, casino, ice factory, x-ray station, a hospital, a power station, and a skittle-alley, which all manners of bowling are descended from. After the diamonds became few and far between, residents looked elsewhere for their diamond fix, finding it 270 km south of Kolmanskop near the Orange River. Eventually, the town was wholly abandoned in 1954, and the desert has slowly worked to reclaim the land, with sand overtaking all of the buildings. Just know that to visit you need a permit, but we’d say it looks like it’s worth it! It’s like something out of an episode of The Walking Dead, and we’d suggest you bring some sort of weapon with you if you do decide to give it a go.

3. Masonic Initiation Wells
This beautiful abandoned well can be found near the center of Sintra, Portugal. Called the Quinta da Regaleira, this fantastic place was built in the 12th century and features a pair of wells that spiral down, deep into the earth. The well seen in this picture contains nine platforms, which is said to be a reference to Dante and his Divine Comedy, the platforms representing the nine circles of Hell, the nine different sections of Purgatory, and the nine skies of Paradise. At the bottom of the well lies a compass laid over a Knights Templar cross and it’s believed it was used for secretive rituals and initiations! To us, it looks like the perfect place for a twisted, pretzel-imitating little girl to rapidly crawl and follow you up the stairs from the bottom, so we’re just going to steer clear of this pretty place.


2. Christ of the Abyss
This giant, bronze statue can be found in the Mediterranean Sea, off San Fruttuoso on the Italian Riviera. The original statue depicting Jesus Christ was placed in the Mediterranean on August 22, 1954, and was sculpted by Guido Galletti after an Italian diver named Duilio Marcante gave him the idea. Dario Gonzatti, the first Italian to make use of SCUBA gear, passed away in the area in 1947 and the statue was placed there strategically in honor of him. The ocean did what it does, though, and corroded the artwork severely until it had to be removed and restored in 2003. It was returned to the water in July of 2004 and is still in place today. Jesus Christ, that’s a crazy thing to find underwater!


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