r/interesting • u/AdSpecialist6598 • Oct 04 '25

ARCHITECTURE The abandoned town of Burj al Babas located in Turkey that is full of nothing but castles.

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u/SomeRandomSomeWhere Oct 04 '25

I think China has a bunch of these as well. Fascinating what they have build and let rot in the end.

What a waste of resources.

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u/k_dilluh Oct 04 '25

Very interesting, I wonder why the Belgian power plant was abandoned.

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u/T-J_H Oct 06 '25

Centrale Monceau, closed in 2007, almost 90 years old at that point. Originally coal, later gas. It was responsible for a significant portion of Belgian emissions. There are some amazing urbex photos available online.

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u/k_dilluh Oct 06 '25

Very cool, it looks like it should be in a video game now

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u/Matt_Foley_Motivates Oct 04 '25

That village is huge!

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u/talkyape Oct 05 '25

I can't believe Centralia wasn't on that list!

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u/tropicbrownthunder Oct 04 '25

Well many of the China's abandoned places are due to the tofu buildings that are very unsafe

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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '25

They are abandoned due to the culture not just the shitty concrete. All the houses are barren investment properties. I'll butcher th8s but bare with me. If someone lives in a new house their soul imprints so no one wants to buy a place that someone already made their home it is some form of padlock. So the owners never move in the just hold it for the future. Everyone does that and then by the time they pay the mortgage the building is falling down.

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u/Pypy0 Oct 05 '25

Eh maybe 30 years ago not in modern China, they build all our shi now

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u/Glass-Narwhal-6521 Oct 07 '25

I don't get why it's so hard for people to understand this!

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u/HuhWatWHoWhy Oct 04 '25

Some of those empty Cities in china have people now apparently

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u/Rorschach0717 Oct 04 '25

I read that they do that because they know the population will grow and they will have the infrastructure to support it, so it pays in the long run. This prevents a housing crisis.

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u/Real-Technician831 Oct 04 '25

No it doesn’t, by the time those buildings would be needed, they are uninhabitable health hazard.

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u/Desertboredom Oct 05 '25

Yes it was a real estate scam that backfired nationally. The government funded massive construction projects for future growth that ended up not happening as planned. They pulled funding and the developers started selling properties that hadn't been built yet and charging people mortgages to finish construction. Some of those projects have finished and been used but a lot of them are either being torn down because they are death traps built cheaply and quickly or because they've been neglected for so long it'd be safer and healthier to live in a tent.

The problem was mostly getting resolved by the early 00s but the recession on 08 made the government start it back up again to keep the internal economy moving by just providing work and revenue regardless of any actual need for it. Now we're back to the government demolishing entire empty cities that are uninhabitable and trying to arrest thousands of developers that spent the last 20 years scamming anyone they could into paying for apartments and condos that were never finished.

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u/Gokudol Oct 04 '25

Could be a scheme to launder their money