1. Pripyat, Ukraine
Pripyat was founded in 1970 to house workers for the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. Officially proclaimed a city in 1979, its population reached 50,000 people before the Chernobyl disaster in 1986. The residents had two days to evacuate the city. Today it is well-known ghost-town.
Every place from our list of 11 Most Famous Abandoned Places In The World tells its own story and invokes the curiosity within us.
