Pripyat, Ukraine (Chernobyl)

If there was ever a poster child for eerily abandoned places around the world, then it would have to be Pripyat. Established in 1970, the city had reached a population of nearly 50,000 by the time it was entirely evacuated after the Chernobyl disaster in 1986. Pripyat has remained an uninhabited city since the evacuation, although the buildings, furniture, and all other signs of life are exactly where its former citizens left them. Today, the most famous landmark is the Pripyat amusement park's ferris wheel—a skeletal reminder of what used to be.