The megastructure has 128 stories above ground, of which 117 were originally going to be used for housing and a hotel.

But after the diamond supply dwindled post-World War I, the town was abandoned by the 1950s. Today, crumbling buildings filled with sand offer a hauntingly beautiful scene, giving visitors a ...

You can probably name some of the abandoned cities of the past, like Pompei or Babylon, that were destroyed by natural disasters or war. But in today’s world ... a building material in high ...

Once described as the ‘Las Vegas of the Mediterranean,’ the once-thriving resort of Varosha in the breakaway Republic of Northern Cyprus has lain abandoned since the Turkish invasion of Cyprus ...

was nearly abandoned after being constructed in the wrong city. The New South China Mall, located in Dongguan, Guangdong Province, China, is one of the largest shopping malls in the world in ...

It was then a military hospital during World Wars I and II ... and the most notable abandoned building around is the City Methodist Church, once the largest of its kind in the Midwest.

For decades, Bolivia held a record-shattering title: It was home to the world's highest ski resort ... visited the abandoned buildings in 2015. Today, she still remembers the sadness she felt ...