Stunning Abandoned Places Around the World

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4. Cape Romano Dome House

Near Caxambas Island, off the coast of Cape Romano, Florida, there’s a strange sight: Several dome-shaped roofs poking out of the ocean. It’s what’s left of the Cape Romano Dome house, a modern beach home built in the early 1980s by retired oil mogul Bob Lee. Lee built the six interconnected, dome-shaped rooms to be completely self-sustaining, with solar power and a runoff system that provided their water. He lived there with his family until 1992, when a hurricane gutted the interior, though the stable concrete structure remained intact. Since then, the home has fallen victim to beach erosion and now sits 180 feet offshore.

In 2017, two of the domes collapsed into the ocean, but the home now serves as a reef and is home to a large population of marine wildlife.

15. Craco, Italy

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This town was originally called Montedoro when it was inhabited by Greeks, and original settlement dates back to 8 B.C. The earliest record of the town being called Craco is from 1060 A.D., when it belonged to an archbishop of the Catholic church. The town changed hands many times in the years to come, but the unification of Italy in 1861 settled the matter, and all was well for about 30 years.

Then, in 1963, a large landslide (most likely caused by the town’s infrastructure) required the town to evacuate, and most of the remaining inhabitants moved to the valley at the foot of the hills. In 1972, a flood made things worse and squashed the possibility of repopulation. In 1980, an earthquake left it totally abandoned.

Today, though the ghost town is uninhabited, it has been used as a setting for many movies, including in The Passion of The Christ in 2004.