29 Unsettling Pictures Of Actual Ghost Towns And Ruins That Show What The World Will Look Like Long After All The Humans Disappear

From The Hunger Games to The Giver, I'm fascinated by a good dystopian story. However, I can't help but wonder what the world looks like outside of these societies. How many homes were left behind?

I imagine a lot of old cities would be abandoned, like the Rusty Ruins in Uglies. Our world already has a lot of abandoned places, like ghost towns and ruins. The pictures can be...unsettling, to say the least.

Here are 29 creepy pictures of abandoned ghost towns and ruins:

1.This abandoned Soviet mining settlement:

2.An old gym inside that same settlement:

3.Kayaköy, a ghost town crumbling on a Turkish hillside:

4.This Ukrainian hotel that was left behind after the Chernobyl disaster:

5.An abandoned amusement park in Pripyat, which is close to the Chernobyl nuclear plant:

6.Inside an abandoned preschool in Pripyat:

7.The police station and church in the Colombian ghost town of La Siberia:

8.One of the abandoned houses in La Siberia:

9.And inside one of those abandoned houses:

10.This gold-mining settlement-turned-ghost town in what is now California's Bodie State Historic Park:

11.Inside the old church in Bodie:

12.Kaymoor One Mine, an overgrown coal mining town in New River Gorge National Park, West Virginia:

13.And another part of Kaymoor One Mine, which has been completely reclaimed by the trees:

14.The Wild West ghost town of Shakespeare, New Mexico:

15.A sheepherder's wagon left behind in Shakespeare:

16.A room inside the Stratford Hotel in Shakespeare:

17.This old cemetery in an American ghost town:

18.And this ghost town cemetery somewhere in the deserts of the US:

19.The ruins of this power plant on the Oder, a river on the German-Polish border:

20.This abandoned house in what is now Italy's Cilento National Park:

21.The Czech Republic's former "gateway to the world" in the Port of Hamburg:

22.This Icelandic fish factory that lays in ruins:

23.What's left of the old downtown area in Rankin, Illinois:

24.The ruins of Celleno, a ghost village in Italy:

25.A left-behind bike in Celleno:

26.And the abandoned castle that crowns Celleno:

27.This ghost town on an old US military training area in Germany:

28.This town that was left to the elements in Nevada:

29.And finally, Fabbriche di Careggine, a sunken city in Italy that only appears when Lake Vagli is drained: