50 Abandoned Hotels That Are Frozen in Time
32. Prora – Rügen, Germany: A Colossus on the Coast
Stretching nearly three miles along the Baltic coast, Prora is less a single hotel and more a monstrous concrete complex. Commissioned by the Nazis under the "Strength Through Joy" program, it was intended as a massive seaside resort for 20,000 German workers, though never completed as planned. After WWII, it served various military purposes before parts fell into abandonment. Today, sections have been controversially redeveloped into apartments and a hotel, while others remain decaying shells. Its sheer scale and chilling origins make Prora a unique and unsettling monument to totalitarian ambition left stranded by history.
