They say the only permanent thing in the world is change. History books are one way to understand the passage of time, but there are also some real-life monuments that speak to the past in their own way. Beneath all the dust, rust and cracks, there are stories of people living their lives, praying or taking their daily train rides.
All that remains are ruins. Although they may seem unpleasant or frightening in some ways, abandoned places tend to have a unique beauty that has been polished by time. Really stopping and appreciating small things means understanding what could have happened there and the reasons why the place was left aside.
I'm Donato de Paula, narrator of the Mistérios do Mundo channel, and today you're going to discover some of the most incredible abandoned places in the world, and one of them is in Brazil. Before continuing, like our video, subscribe to Mistérios do Mundo and turn on notifications. The Scottish highlands are often praised as one of the most beautiful places in the world.
The lakes, valleys and hills, and of course, its many castles. Eilean Donan Castle, one of the most photographed in the world, is among them. It is said to be haunted by a Spanish soldier who was killed in 1719 during the First Jacobite Rebellion.
Uyuni is mainly known for its salt flats and red lakes, but the Bolivian region has another tourist attraction in common, a cemetery of abandoned old trains. Uyuni is mainly known for its salt flats and red lakes, but the Bolivian region has another tourist attraction in common, a cemetery of abandoned old trains. In the 19th century, they planned to extend Uyuni's transportation network and build railways, but the project was abandoned due to technical difficulties and tensions with the local indigenous people.
Trains were still used to transport minerals to Pacific port cities, but the minerals ran out in the 1940s. The miners left the city and the trains were abandoned in the desert. Since then, time and salty winds have corroded the carriages and locomotives, resulting in the large train graveyard you see today.
Although they look like props from a science fiction film, these gigantic metal towers were erected to protect England from German air raids during World War II. The forts were decommissioned in the 1950s, and the abandoned towers were used by pirate radio operators in the following decades. Today, a nearby fort is run by the Sealand micronation.
For centuries it seemed as if the earth had swallowed it, but when it was rediscovered in Cambodia, Angkor's most fascinating Buddhist temple amazed its discoverers. During the colonial period, the French began the restoration of the temple, maintaining the characteristics in which it was found, giant roots intertwined throughout its structures. Just shoring up the walls and using small shavings from the dense jungle.
Visiting the ruined site gives a feeling of discovery, as if you were a 19th century explorer. Paranapiacaba, an English-style village that witnessed the entire cycle of wealth brought by coffee, now houses the abandoned remnants of what was once the most important railway in Brazil. Today, it is a tourist, historical and cultural spot.
The charming village and its abandoned trains are located just 50 kilometers from the city of São Paulo, on the banks of Serra do Mar. Pompeii was a city full of life. In the stone alleys there were common people, provincial soldiers and aristocrats who owned summer houses, around 20 thousand people.
In the year 79, an event occurred that forever changed Pompeii's routine. The Vesuvius volcano, located about 20 kilometers away, awakened, spewing toxic smoke, suffocating a large part of the population and, subsequently, spreading its ashes over the dead, turning their bodies into stones. Centuries later, when archaeologists were studying the diversion of the Sarno River, they accidentally stumbled upon what Pompeii had once been.
The sad story of an ancient society that could just be a good fiction film would be told through its static inhabitants and objects frozen in time. Nearly $200 million worth of copper was processed in Kennecott, Alaska, from 1911 to 1938. Almost $200 million worth of copper was processed in Kennecott, Alaska, from 1911 to 1938.
An independent mining town, but most of the buildings It was abandoned about 60 years ago. In 1986, the Westin Stanford Hotel opened in Singapore and became the tallest hotel in the world. North Korea's communist leadership wanted to prove that its engineers could build something even grander, so construction on this North Korean hotel began in 1987.
Almost 30 years later, this pyramidal building still remains unfinished. This ancient Chinese fishing village has been uninhabited for several decades, but it is no ordinary ghost town. Instead of being covered in dust and debris, these buildings are almost entirely taken over by lush vegetation, creating a green landscape that is more spectacular than devastating.
While most of the village's original residents moved away in the early 1990s because of problems with food delivery and access to education, a few people still live here, selling items to curious tourists and photographers. The history of New Mexico in the United States is closely linked to mining and railroads. As a result, many places experienced a brief period of prosperity followed by failure.
Coervo is one of these towns, built in 1901, whose heyday was in the 1940s. This small railway town was doing very well, benefiting from the construction of Route 66, which passed through the town. This little railroad town was doing very well, benefiting from the construction of Route 66, which passed through the town.
When they built another highway that literally cut the city in two, it began to slowly die. This once-thriving Catholic church is now abandoned and slowly falls into picturesque ruins. At its peak, the church had 3 priests, 22 nuns and 180 students enrolled in the adjacent school.
But things got worse for the community and the parish. A police raid on a drinking establishment in the area sparked tensions that escalated civil unrest, with most of the buildings along the street being set on fire. The community never recovered and people began moving away from the area.
In 1986, the church closed its doors. If this place seems scary today, we can only imagine how terrifying it was during World War II. Even after so long, this abandoned concentration camp is still one of the most important historical sites in Poland.
It is a reminder of hunger, suffering, torture and death. We cannot forget that thousands of innocent people lost their lives here, in inhumane conditions and for no other adequate reason than their race, sexuality or religious beliefs. In a few hours, 642 people died, men, women and children.
The year was 1944. We were in the middle of World War II, and this French village was the scene of one of the most violent Nazi massacres in memory. The village was completely destroyed and today is in ruins.
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