49 Abandoned Landmarks That Are More Beautiful Than Ever

15. Canfranc International Railway Station – Huesca, Spain

Imagine stepping into a lost palace disguised as a train station. Hidden high in the Spanish Pyrenees, Canfranc Station boasts an immense, ornate building larger than some airports, built in the 1920s for international travel. Its grand halls, once buzzing with passengers and whispers of WWII espionage, fell silent as routes closed. Today, parts are being restored, but much remains untouched—a monumental testament to forgotten ambition, its elegant decay framed by mountain peaks. Sunlight streams through vast arched windows onto dusty floors, echoing with the ghosts of journeys never completed. It’s a breathtaking collision of Beaux-Arts grandeur and mountain solitude.