据英国《每日邮报》报道，近日，一组世界各地的“鬼城”照片映入人们的眼帘。向人们展示了一座座曾经繁华但如今人去楼空的城镇。据悉，这些“鬼城”都曾闻名遐迩，或因矿产丰富，或因气候宜人，或因历史悠久，或者一个小镇上只剩下两个人。但最后都因自然的侵害或人为的因素，而不得不被人们所抛弃，成为一座座满目苍夷的“鬼城”。

Pripyat, Ukraine

Photographers from around the world visit Pripyat, Ukraine to snap shots of abandoned classrooms and scattered possessions

The city of Pripyat was abandoned in April 1986 after one of the reactors at the Chernobyl power plant went into meltdown

Hashima Island, Japan

James Bond fans will recognise Hashima Island, also known as Battleship Island (Gunkanjima), as the lair of 007’s enemy in Skyfall

More than 5,000 of people lived here until April 1974, when a coal mine shut down and the concrete island was abandoned

Oradour-sur-Glane, France

Destroyed by the Nazis during World War II, the village of Oradour-sur-Glane was the scene of the massacre of 642 residents in June 1944

The village has been left untouched since the massacre, and a new village built nearby is home to more than 2,000 people

Varosha, Cyprus

The shores of Varosha were once graced by glamorous film stars such as Elizabeth Taylor and Brigitte Bardot, but are now deserted

Varosha was abandoned when the resort was invaded by Turkish troops, and today is fenced off and still occupied

Bodie, California

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The town of Bodie, California, is a classic example of a settlement that thrived during the gold rush and was left to wither and die

The Wild West town had just a handful of residents in the 1940s and was named a historic park in 1962 after it was abandoned

Imber, England

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This village on the Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire was evacuated in December 1943 as Allied troops prepared for the invasion of Europe

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Imber remains a training ground for British soldiers, although it opens to tourists usually around Bank Holidays and Christmas

Kolmanskop, Namibia

Family homes that were abandoned are now filled with sand in Kolmanskop, a once prosperous mining town deep in the Namib Desert

The German-style village flourished after diamonds were discovered in 1908, but its decaying homes have been left to rot

Port Arthur, Tasmania

The former convict settlement at Port Arthur is now a World Heritage Site and Tasmania’s most popular tourist attraction

Even though Port Arthur's prison closed in 1877, a new community grew around it and thrived over the next century

Fordlandia, Brazil

Fordlandia, in the Brazilian rainforest, was created by Henry Ford in 1928 as a rubber plantation that would feed his Michigan factories

The industrialist hoped to instil the American way of life in his Brazilian workers, but the project was abandoned by the end of World War II

Pyramiden, Norway

Named after a pyramid-shaped mountain, Pyramiden, Norway was a Soviet-era coal mining town that was officially abandoned in 1998

Most of its buildings are still intact and it is owned by a Russian firm, and there have been efforts to transform it into a tourist hub

Spinalonga, Greece

Run-down and left to the elements, this settlement was a leper colony until 1957, five years before the island was deserted

Today, tourists can walk around Spinalonga’s ruined buildings, which were once home to lepers, and take in spectacular views of the sea