17 Abandoned Places You Won't Believe Exist

A Soviet space shuttle gathering dust in a hangar, a fishing village swallowed by vines, a subway station New York closed in 1945, a sea fort that declared itself a country: 17 abandoned places, all real, counted down to a number 1 we won't spoil here.

Video clips and interviews are used with credit to their YouTube channels; photo and video credits are listed below.

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⏱ Chapters
00:00 Cold open
00:14 #17 — The Secret Subway Station
00:46 #16 — The Accidental Sea
01:31 #15 — The Whaling Station at the End of the World
02:03 #14 — The Train Graveyard
02:35 #13 — The Town on the Rock
03:03 #12 — The Hotel on the Edge
03:32 #11 — The Flying Saucer on the Mountain
04:03 #10 — The Village the Plants Swallowed
04:33 #9 — The Town the Desert Ate
05:10 #8 — The Forts on Stilts
05:44 #7 — The Ship That Grew a Forest
06:13 #6 — The Resort Behind the Fence
06:50 #5 — The Soviet Town Near the North Pole
07:37 #4 — The Wall in the Forest
08:08 #3 — Battleship Island
08:46 #2 — The City That Stopped
09:33 #1 — ???
10:17 Did your eyes believe it?

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CC BY-SA 4.0: Thomas Chu, SkyPixels, Nesnad, Rhododendrites, Michał Derela, Cristobal Frigerio, PsamatheM, Maurizio Moro, Annalaura Francavilla, Teodoro Corbo, Carlillasa, ArturoAparicio, CHILIEV, Mark Ahsmann, Keryone, Milkomède, Olga Ernst & Hp.Baumeler, Zairon, Johan Jönsson (Julle), Shanomag, Libresocietycy, Hnapel, Dmitrii Rusanov, Олександр Сирота, Vikitorisam, Nikolai Bulykin
YouTube (used with credit): DJI, DJ Hammers Transport, SkyHigh Adventures, Crazy To Drone, KQED Arts (Plagues & Pleasures on the Salton Sea), Daniel McCurdy, 3Weltreisende, BeCloser, Travel and Drones, Luca Folino, SKY SERVICE COLOMBIA, Metrocuadrado / El Tiempo, Undiscovered Bulgaria, AeroTravel DJI, Dennis Schmelz, TwinPines, Tom Banbury, Lopezwoodenboats, Enrico Pescantini, RadicalTrips, National Geographic, ZBROY FILMS, Drone Japan, Danny Cooke, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Chris Luckhardt
CC BY 4.0: NYC Mayor's Office, Generale Lee, Graeme Andrews (City of Sydney Archives), Jakub Hałun
CC BY 2.0: John D. from Pasadena, USA, Akos Kokai, Kevin Dooley from Chandler, AZ, USA, Brian Gratwicke, Jimmy Harris, Dage (Looking For Europe), Andrew Milligan sumo, Sonse, Ryan Lackey, mezuni (Jason Baker), Jason Baker, Jorge Franganillo, kntrty (Flickr)
Public domain: NASA Scientific Visualization Studio (Ross K. Walter), Adam Dubrowa (FEMA), Steffen Sledz (Zone42), Royal Navy official photographer (Imperial War Museums), VOA (Voice of America)
CC BY-SA 2.0: Liam Quinn, Liam Quinn from Canada, Murray Foubister, Rob Farrow (geograph.org.uk), Christine Matthews (geograph.org.uk), Ralph Greig (geograph.org.uk), Steve Cadman, Jan Alonzo from Wentworth Point, Australia, Adam Jones, Gytizzz, -Maikel-, IAEA Imagebank
CC BY 3.0: Blagoj Klincharski, The Track Record - BTS
CC BY-SA 3.0: Felipe Restrepo Acosta, Petruss
CC0: Yucalyptus, Jordy Meow
- World map: NASA Visible Earth / Earth Observatory, Blue Marble: Next Generation (public domain)
Music: "Lightless Dawn" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), CC BY 4.0