24 Eerie Abandoned Places with Dark Pasts and Even Darker Secrets
20. The City of Kadykchan: A Soviet Town Left Behind
Deep in the Russian Far East, Kadykchan was a Soviet mining town that once housed over 10,000 people. However, after the fall of the Soviet Union and a deadly mining explosion in the 1990s, the town was completely abandoned. Today, entire apartment blocks stand empty, schools still have books open on desks, and children’s toys remain untouched in the dust. The eerie silence of Kadykchan is broken only by the howling wind through broken windows, making it one of the most haunting ghost towns in the world.
