All news on the topic: Abandoned places

Urban explorer Adam Corkill discovered the remote cottage near St Ives, Cornwall, which has a calendar last used in December 1986, when its previous owner seemingly left

Abandoned shopping centres are few and far between across the world - but in the UK there are a couple of eerie malls left to rot... and they're all run down and full of graffiti

Shiregreen Working Mens Club in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, was abandoned after closing its doors in 2019 - but a petition was launched to fight plans of demolishing the building

Bryn Estyn Children's Home in North Wales once housed youngsters but it has now fallen into a state of disrepair and has been regularly vandalised over the years

Jose Flores regularly hits the headlines for his adventures around buildings that are forgotten-in-time, which he shares online with his 6.4 million followers

The morbid images show all the furniture and personal belongings in place inside the property where the owner, named only as Mrs. Smith, died peacefully in her sleep of old age

The once-beautiful home in Huntingdon, New York, has been abandoned for 13 years after fire and rescue services were called and discovered more than 100 dogs and puppies had been abused

Urban explorer, Urban Banana, took pictures inside Miller & Carter Steakhouse, a converted paddle steamer at Lakeside Shopping Centre in Essex, that sank in December 2022

Urban explorer Bob Thissen visited the Fukushima exclusion zone in Japan and discovered several abandoned vintage cars in pretty good condition, but made unusable due to the radiation levels in their metal

Urban explorer Ben James investigated a mortuary in Northern Ireland which closed in 2017 in which he reported hearing ghostly voices, even though he was alone inside

The leisure centre in Portadown, Northern Ireland was once a popular destination for locals but was closed down when a new 30-million pound complex opened nearby

A spooky rural ghost town was found by an urban explorer in Wadsworth, Illinois. The site has 22 acres of land and seven properties with rusting old farm equipment

A decaying shell of a 75,000-capacity football stadium can be seen in Valencia which was left abandoned, after the LaLiga club ran out of money during the 2008 financial crisis

An astonishing "little Italy" has been uncovered in north Wales after years hidden away in undergrowth with around 200 statues, buildings and other artwork now discovered at the site

Ben James, 32, from Cambridge, took photos inside an abandoned retro McDonald's in Chicago that now looks eerily quiet with glasses, plates and cutlery appearing to have been hurriedly left behind

Anyone hoping to visit the 'secret' Dorset beach would have to walk through the abandoned village of Tyneham to their sandy destination - which was evacuated in World War Two

Footage taken inside an abandoned McDonald's offers a peek at what the chain would have looked like back in the 1980s, with the 'time capsule' restaurant remaining eerily untouched

Hirta, off the coast of Scotland, was inhabited by people for thousands of years before its population dwindled over the centuries until the last people finally left in 1930

The Bristol townhouse has been valued at £300,000 despite being abandoned for five years with no staircase, a collapsed ceiling and being completely swallowed by ivy

The 440 acre bronze age fortress was discovered by archaeologist Michael Gibbons in 2020 and would have housed hundreds of people, and is thought to be 3,200 years old

Penrhys in Wales was once a holy pilgrimage site hundreds of years ago, but a social housing experiment to turn it into a town in the 1960s has failed miserably - rendering it almost a ghost town

Images show the abandoned ruins of a forgotten slate quarrying village in north Wales that has become overgrown after not been used for a century and still has a steam engine for the mine

An urban explorer has taken photos of an abandoned morgue in North Wales which has been frozen in time with medical tools and autopsy tables remaining in rooms - despite it closing in 2003

A 100-year-old abandoned school, located in Upstate New York, US, was discovered by professional urban explorer, Dave, who is also known as Freaktography on TikTok

An urban explorer has visited an abandoned school in upstate New York that was closed in the 1980s - and shared photos from the building, showing signs of decay