10 ABANDONED HOTELS That Are Left in Ruins

there are many hotels and resorts located in some of the most luxurious places around the world each and every year guests stay in these hotels while on their summer holidays or honeymoons but sometimes unforeseen events can leave these deluxe buildings completely abandoned while mold and rodents are what's left in happening the Suites ballrooms and indoor swimming pools today let's explore these thin imagine hotels you're not allowed to visit [Music] number 10 the white pints this hotel was located at the base of the Pocono Mountains which are a few hours north of New York City the hotel has a lot of mystery surrounding it as its address and true name unknown due to many urban explorers wanted to keep it protected and it is instead referred to only as the white pines junior-t 1900s the resort was a popular summer Haven for garment workers and featured a lake theater library and many other activities for his guests sadly today Motel is crumbling and in a state of disrepair photographer John Walker captured haunting images disappeared and resort and stated the theater and its main building interested me the most just seeing what time and Mother Nature have done to the location since it closed always makes it exciting to see and capture with a camera number nine close endures Catskill Resort kwasind just Castile Resort Hotel was a resort located in the Catskill Mountains in a town of Liberty near New York the resort was known as one of the largest Borschberg resorts and was a kosher establishment that catered primarily to Jews clients from New York City the once popular resort welcomed over 150,000 visitors annually and during 1954 resort even earned a place in the history of skiing as the first resort in the world these artificial snow the resort was even so popular that had its own airstrip boram's post office auditoriums and sports grounds hosting comedians and sporting champions and putting on nightly entertainment however the GWACs and you failed to attract younger guests during the 70s and 80s leading to the resort to close its doors in 1986 number eight do Court Palace Hotel located in Liberia the do clock Palace Hotel was owned by Intercontinental Hotel chain and was known as a five-star hotel overlooking the Atlantic Ocean even though the hotel was one of the Muslim luxurious in Africa it closed in 1989 after Liberia was ravaged by civil war and political instability after these events intercontinental broke away from the dew Court Palace just before the Liberian government was overthrown and the gruesome event of the present have been cannibalized eventually the hotel fell to homeless squatters and ended in ruins years later in 2007 by barring officials evicted two squatters in the hope of bringing the property back to life by well madhavi's libyan government however that soon fell through after another civil war erupted leading to the death of Gaddafi today the foreboding hallways of the ducal Palace Hotel are stacked with garbage and no running water walking around the property is quite dangerous after rounds were torn off the stairs number 7 igloo City igloo City is a four-story concrete structure which resembles an igloo and was built in one of the most from remote areas of Alaska the hotel was built in the 1970s however the building never met the proper building requirements what makes this hotel so fascinating is the fact that it was built solely to rely on summer tourists since its construction the building has had many owners and besides being used as a hotel has also been as souvenirs then and even a roadside attraction however it failed to even make enough revenue to be sustainable one of the last attempts at resurrecting igloo City failed to happen choose the lack of funds back in 2005 sadly vandals have destroyed the remaining interior and dangerous wildlife take cover within the hotel so even though the doors aren't locked I would not go sightseeing in this hotel number six Boko Palace Hotel and Casino this resort was built in the early 1920s by French settlers and was constructed in the remote mountains of Cambodia unfortunately due to its location around 1,000 lives were lost during its development after its opening the hotel flourished for two decades a motel was well known for being an oasis away from the heat of Phnom Penh Cambodia is busy capital things started taking a turn for the worst for the bokor hill station after the Vietnam conflict broke out during the late 1940s which led to Europeans flemm the country the once popular bokor hill station was now used primarily by the military and politicians and was a site of invasions and mass killings made for the cameroon because of this the area has been abandoned since the early 1990s today the bokor hill station is back on the map as a popular tourist attraction and sits on national park land the hotel is now covered in moss making it look like an ancient ruin on a creepy note many locals in the area say the palace is teeming with the spirits of those who gave their lives to build it one park ranger named vitiate say did I wouldn't enter the building at night every time I walked past I can hear the dead walk in there it's full of ghosts several moves even been made in the hotel including Korean movie our point and Matt Dillon's crime drama city of ghosts number 5 the Grand Hotel Resort this hotel was located in Croatia's dubrovnik riviera and was once an idyllic hotspot for summer vacation is primarily by high-ranking military officials of Yugoslav People's Army the Grand Hotel Resort was constructed in the 1960s on a sandy Bay and included five hotels a campsite and many villas the hotel was known for attaining the heights in elegance with its grand name de coeur today the hotel now lies and devastated ruins after falling two attacks in homeland war broke out in the early 1990s this left the once elegant resort unrecognizable as not only was it looted for valuables phosphorus bombs were used to systematically burn the hotel's floor-by-floor the remainder of the Grand Hotel is now a ghostly presence over time nature's over ground the remaining structures with ivy and weeds now filling the boram's trees sprouting up in the reception area and the crumbling building covered in masses of graffiti number four Sanji UFO houses this set of hot shaped buildings is located in Sanji district new Taipei City Taiwan and is also known as a Sanjeev pot houses or Sanji pot city the construction of the UFL houses began in 1978 when they were intended to be a holiday resort targeted US military officers coming in from the East Asian postings however the hotel would come to a dark end in 1980 due to investment losses and several eerie car accident deaths and suicides some locals say hotel was located on the former burial ground for Dutch soldiers while others suggest the deaths were caused by an ill-omened decision to destroy a massive ceremonial dragon statue which was believed to be possessed in order to widen the entrance road to make matters more sinister site records were destroyed which only added more intrigue to the disaster the Sandia's mysterious demise in 2010 the pods were demolished to make way for a new resort however time will tell whether the new developers will at the same haunting events dogging them like the previous developers number three mountain maya hotel known as hye-kyo meaning abandoned place this is the most popular abandoned location in all of Japan named the mount Meir hotel it was built in 1929 and housed anti-aircraft guns on its roof during World War two the building suffered damage during the war and we rebuilt in the 1960s in an attempt to bring the hotel to life whether it was soon after that in 1967 that natural disasters including a typhoon and mudslides led the hotel to be damaged yet again it was reopened years later as a Student Center before closing its doors for good in 1995 number-two Hotel del salto Columbia this once luxurious hotel first time and its doors in 1928 and welcomed wealthy visitors sightseeing that taken down a Falls area hotel del salto is situated opposite of waterfall and is placed on the edge of a cliff the hotel provides breathtaking views of the scenery however the hotel it's dark past due to its location on top of a cliff the hotel was a hot spot for people committing suicide with some locals even suggesting that Hotel de Soto is haunted during the decades following its opening the bucket of river over which the hotel was placed became contaminated leaning to tourists losing interest in the area sadly the hotel ceased operation in the early 90s and has been abandoned ever since number one Rajon hotel located in Pyongyang North Korea this hotel is a staggering 105 story pyramid shaped skyscraper building Rajon Hotel attains the height of 1080 feet making it a prominent feature in Pyongyang city's skyline construction for the hotel began in 1987 and was planned to be finished by 1989 however you did the construction method and problems with materials the project was never completed according to CNN rebuilding began to take place in 1992 but the project soon ground to a halt in 1993 due to funding issues today the building structure stands unfinished despite countless construction plans which failed to begin throughout the years a North Korean government official told the Los Angeles Times in 2008 the construction was not completed because North Korea ran out of money the rumors of problems in the mystery about its future LED find media sources to dub it the worst building in the world hotel of doom and phantom Hotel [Music] [Music]

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Published: Fri Nov 10 2017