11 eerie photos of abandoned places around the world

"Abandoned Places"

What author Richard Happer loves most about abandoned places is that they're everywhere you look — if you look hard enough.

"There are so many of them, right on the doorstep of our everyday worlds," Happer told Tech Insider in 2016. "Hidden beneath our cities, unnoticed on high mountainsides. The more exploring you do, the more abandoned places that you find."

Happer published a book, "Abandoned Places: 60 Stories of Places Where Time Stopped," that celebrates these eerie sites around the world. He shared some of the images with us.

Richard Happer's book "Abandoned Places" explores deserted sites on Antarctica, islands in the middle of the Pacific, and even a Six Flags in New Orleans.

"Abandoned Places"

For the purposes of his book, Happer defined "abandoned" as places devoid of human residents, though some are visited by tourists and have new structures nearby.

"Abandoned Places"

A nuclear power plant explosion at Chernobyl in 1986 coated this northern Ukraine city in radioactive material. Nature claimed it after the residents fled for safety.

"Abandoned Places"

Source: Harper Collins

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