50 Abandoned Hotels That Are Frozen in Time

45. Hotel La Reine – Beirut, Lebanon

Located in the heart of once-glamorous Beirut, Hotel La Reine symbolized elegance during the city’s mid-20th-century heyday. Built in the 1950s, it stood just blocks from the Corniche and attracted diplomats and artists alike. But the Lebanese Civil War ravaged downtown Beirut, and the hotel was abandoned during the conflict. Its charred interiors and bullet-riddled façade still stand today—a solemn reminder of a city suspended between memory and reconstruction. Amid ongoing urban renewal, Hotel La Reine remains untouched, its shattered lobby untouched for decades. It is not merely decayed—it is frozen at the precise moment when war rewrote its story.