Abandoning things that were once used by many people sounds like a sad and depressing story. Unfortunately, many man-made structures succumb to this fate once they are no longer useful. Oddly, some of these structures take on different form of beauty. Almost like a rustic antique that increases in value with every sign of age. From the Manteno State Mental Hospital in Manteno, Illinois to the glorious Erice Castle in Sicily, Italy; these abandoned structures are surprisingly beautiful. Check out these 25 most beautiful abandoned places you won’t believe exist.
This amazing ruin The Beatles visited back in the 1960's at Rishikesh, northern India to attend an advanced transcendental meditation training session at the Ashram of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Meditation_chambers_at_the_old_Maharishi_Mahesh_Yogi_Ashram,_now_in_ruins,_Muni_Ki_Reti.jpg This old "haunted" abandoned house in a rural area of Kerala, India.
Image: Shutterstock Les Tours de Merle, in the Correze department of France, which has been abandoned since 1574.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/smithser/7152498159 Abandoned building from the Manteno State Mental Hospital in Manteno, Illinois
Shutterstock The magnificent Temple of Apollo at Delphi, Greece
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Temple_of_Apollo_at_Delphi_from_below_with_ivy.JPG Lists Going Viral Right Now
Isla de las Muñecas Mexico City, Mexico
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vista_del_interior_Isla_de_las_mu%C3%B1ecas.JPG Ghost Town in the Abandoned Island Gunkanjima near Nagasaki, Japan
Shutterstock The ancient ruins of orthodox Christianity in Stari Bar, Montenegro
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bar,_Montenegro#/media/File:Stari_bar_town_walls.jpg The glorious Erice Castle in Sicily, Italy
Image: Shutterstock Abandoned Military Hospital in Beelitz, Germany
Shutterstock Underground Bunker From Cold War in Sevastopol, Ukraine
Shutterstock Destroyed car in an abandoned place
Image: Shutterstock Abandoned Subway Tunnel in Kiev, Ukraine
Shutterstock Nara Dreamland, Japan
Shutterstock House of the Bulgarian Communist Party, Bulgaria
Shutterstock Agdam, a ghost town in Azerbaijan
Image: Commons.wikimedia.org user KennyOMG Pripyat, Ukraine
Shutterstock Abandoned church in Hassan, India.
Image: Shutterstock Abandoned Chernobyl Attraction
Image: Shutterstock The superb ruins of the Cistercian Abbey of Villers-la-Ville in Walloon Brabant, Belgium
Image: Shutterstock Kolmanskop, Namibia
Shutterstock Ancient ruins in Ta Prohm or Rajavihara Temple at Angkor, Siem Reap, Cambodia.
Shutterstock The abandoned Valley of the Mills in Naples, Italy
Image: Shutterstock Smugglers Cove on Navagio Beach in Zakynthos, Greece
Image: Shutterstock City Methodist Church in Gary, Indiana
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