All news on the topic: Abandoned places

Barton upon Irwell cemetery in Eccles is the final resting place for dozens of families - but a historian has discovered it doesn't have a legal owner and the Vatican has been roped in to help

An urban explorer has photographed an abandoned swingers palace which still has remnants of its wild past. The property in Chattanooga in the US is complete with chandeliers, a Playboy swimming pool and handwritten notes from guests

An abandoned funeral home in South Carolina houses an eerie and desolate atmosphere, with stained, rusty tools and syringes from a laboratory left drying forever on a paper tissue

Canfranc Station opened as a rail hub in 1928 but closed its doors by 1970. After being dormant for decades, it has been transformed into a hotel which welcomed its first guests in January

A stolen skull, human bones and coffin lids strewn across the ground, desecrated graves and a chilling graffiti message plastered on a headstone are among sinister finds in an abandoned UK cemetery

Since the fire, Clayton Lodge Hotel in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, has been plagued by antisocial behaviour and neighbours want something to be done

The remains of houses have been left behind in an abandoned village in Aruba. Shots taken by a professional photographer show sofas, beds and other household items left behind

Rows of tables remain completely deserted and still ready to be loaded up inside a once-busy abandoned Mecca Bingo Hall in new images shared by an urban explorer

Photos revealed an abandoned coliseum that once was graced by Elvis Presley and The Beatles in their last 1966 US tour, is planned to be demolished in Memphis, Tennessee, US

From faded boom towns to places abandoned due to natural disasters these husks of their former selves serve as reminders that civilisation doesn't always find a way and what's been built can melt away

The life of a hoarding doctor has been revealed in new chilling photos. Urban Explorer, Dave of Freaktography.com had come across the house which still had many items including a £21,000 piano

Little Lever Health Centre in Bolton, Greater Manchester, was meant to welcome medics soon after it opened but the £5million state-of-the art medical facility still lays empty

An abandoned home has been allowed to go to ruin with several boarded up windows and an overgrown garden as neighbours beg the local council to step in and help

The halfway house in Ontario, Canada, was used to rehabilitate ex-prisoners but was abandoned in 2022 following reports of residents killing one another in rat infested rooms

An urban explorer headed to an abandoned morgue located just outside of Hull, and says he was met with the smell of death and the feeling like someone was watching him

A bustling and busy town in Kennicott, Alaska, US, once attracted thousands of miners from 1905 until 1938 and was responsible for over $200million of copper and nine million ounces of silver

Barnwell County Hospital in South Carolina, US, was the only hospital in the county and had the only X-ray machine in the town, so local doctors would send patients there for routine X-rays

The grand Victorian mansion and former wedding venue has now been left abandoned, strewn with graffiti and damaged by fire after closing during the Covid pandemic

The orphanage was first built in 1899 to house the children of Scottish sailors killed at sea. But years later it stands abandoned and has now been put on the market for £2.45million

Located in Chaffee County in the central part of Colorado in the US, St Elmo is a small town that was abandoned after the nearby mines dried up in the 1920s

A prison in Florida, US, which opened in April 1978, has been left abandoned after violent inmates planned multiple escapes in the 46 capacity jail that had just 13 staff

Elliðaey is a small, uninhabited island that sits off the south coast of Iceland and on it one house has seemingly been abandoned for almost 100 years

The images, taken of Hellingly Hospital, East Sussex reveals the chilling remains of what life was like in a psychiatric hospital. Opened in 1898, the asylum was built to combat overcrowding in the Sussex County Asylum

The former St Gabriel’s Convent has stood in Liverpool for almost two centuries and has been left abandoned for years. But the building holds a dark past where many horrendous crimes against children took place.

Urban explorer Daniel Sims visited an abandoned property in North Wales that was full of its owner's possessions, including a wig, old letters and several books