12 Eerily Beautiful Ghost Towns That Will Haunt Your Wanderlust

4. Pyramiden, Norway – The Frozen Soviet Time Capsule

Deep in the Arctic Circle, Pyramiden was once a thriving Soviet coal mining town, built to be a model communist utopia. But when the mine shut down in 1998, the entire settlement was abandoned almost overnight, leaving behind a surreal, perfectly preserved Soviet ghost town. Today, Lenin’s statue still stands proudly in the town square, old newspapers sit untouched on café tables, and books remain on library shelves, as if waiting for their readers to return. With its Soviet-era architecture set against the stark, icy beauty of Svalbard’s Arctic wilderness, Pyramiden is one of the most hauntingly remote ghost towns on Earth.