Entire cities are abandoned for different reasons, and when they are, the buildings that remain in these ghost towns have incredible stories to tell. Here's our list of strange places and creepy ghost towns around the world! Travel with us at Zero2Hero as we explore in 2017! Click here to subscribe: https://goo.gl/NXuChu And catch these insane prison escapes! https://youtu.be/JXFOU_2Q_gM From underwater complexes to always-burning cities, these are nine of the creepiest ghost town in the world. Stay tuned to find out which one led to the death of over 80,000 residents! 9. Kijong-dong, North Korea The tensions between North and South Korea are legendary and have filled both Western and Eastern media for the past few decades. After the 1953 Armistice that ended the Korean war, a demilitarized zone was created that extends around two and a half miles into both countries was established on the borders of South and North Korea. On the North Korean side of the border, only two villages are allowed to exist within sight of their democratic neighbors. Often referred to as “Peace Village”, Kijŏng-dong is touted by North Korea as a 200 family, collective farm. In actuality, inspection by modern technology has revealed that the town’s many concrete buildings actually lack windows, are lit and de-lit at set times, and that only custodians walk the many streets of the city -- even despite what the controlling, communist government might tell you. Outside experts postulate that Kijŏng-dong was created in an attempt to lure South Korean citizens into defecting to their northern neighbor back in the 50s. From a distance, the city promises peace, community cooperation, and happiness, but upon closer inspection…it’s all but a ghost town. 8. Kangbashi, China The Ordos desert is a constantly expanding, sand-filled strip of land located in the southern portion of Mongolian China. The soil of Ordos is made up of a mixture of clay and sand and doesn’t really lend itself to the sustaining of agriculture. The city of Ordos is the rather large, economical center of the Chinese state of Ordos. Ordos City is known for its very active government and also for its constant fight against the advance of the dessert that surrounds it and constantly threatens to overtake it. Despite successfully fighting the sands of its namesake dessert for many years, in the later part of the early 2000s, the city of Ordos found their water supplies severely threatened by the surrounding sands. Faced with the danger of not having enough water to support their population, the leaders of Ordos embarked on a project to build a new district on the outskirts of their home. Thus Kangbashi was born. Originally designed to house over a million people, hits to the economy of Ordos City later caused its leaders to scale back the Kangbashi building project to house only 300,000 people. Rather than building housing in Kangbashi as would be needed, however, the community leaders of Ordos built massive apartment buildings, hospitals, railways, roads, and all the infrastructure that a city could ever need all at once. This all-in attitude has left Kangbashi a ghost town, filled with beautiful but also quiet and unmoving giant buildings. Kangbashi is slowly growing, but for now at least, it's mostly the winds of the desert and the rays of the sparkling sun that fill the streets of the empty, would-be utopia. 7. Plymouth, Montserrat Man has battled against the elements since he learned to find shelter from the elements within caves and primitive houses. And yet, a lot of the time all we can do to avoid the Earth’s fearsome power is to get out of its way and to step aside from whatever swath of destruction that it has produced. For years, Plymouth City was the capital and only port of the British foreign territory of Montserrat. Built upon a formerly inactive volcano, this all changed in the mid-90s. In 1995, the Soufriere Hills volcano began to stir. Massive eruptions of hot, deadly gas, and burning ash ripped forth from the top of the once-sleeping mountain in the July of that year. At first, as a precaution, the residents of the city were evacuated, but were then allowed to return to their homes a few months later when the Soufriere had appeared to have calmed down. The return of the citizens of Plymouth would prove to be the foundation for a terrible tragedy, however. The volcano near Plymouth would erupt again in 1997 and killed almost twenty people. After the deaths of almost two dozens of its citizens, Plymouth was evacuated again and then declared uninhabitable soon after.Nowadays, the buildings of the destroyed city stand stooped and buried under thousands of pounds of volcanic ash. A new capital for Montserrat is currently under construction, but as of 2013, Plymouth remains the official capital of the island territory.
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