▲Shopping malls are built with the intention of hosting thousands of people every day, which makes it especially creepy when the vast structures are abandoned and left to rubble and silence. Check out some fascinating remains of buildings that were once meant to be lively and welcoming places.

▲The New World department store in Bangkok was closed down in 1997, and later flooded with rainwater.

▲In 2015, staff from Bangkok Metropolitan Administration were seen catching fish in the abandoned building.

▲Thousands of fish, including catfish, fancy carp and black and red tilapia, were reportedly released into the flooded ground floor of the building.

▲You can almost hear the hair-raising buzz of the flickering neon lights...

▲A thick, ominous fog adds a nice touch.

▲This New Jersey shopping center looks like a scene after an apocalypse.

▲Also known as a ghost mall, Wayne Hills was built in 1974 and is reportedly facing imminent demolition.

▲The painted-on view in the fake windows is a stark contrast to the dilapidated environment.

▲Wayne Hills Mall took up an area of 103,800 sq ft (9,643 sq m).

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The point of view of this photograph only highlights how creepy this abandoned mall is.

▲Even the wall paper is trying to abandon the building.

▲Though this isn't a place you'd want to get stuck in at night, it does have a kind of ghostly beauty.

▲Though not one that will put you at ease.

▲Modern wreckage lays waste to what was once a happier place where checks were cashed.

▲It would take Mother Nature quite a long time to reclaim an abandoned space like this.

▲Yell "hello" as loud as you can and see if you hear anything in return...

▲A Zhoekvara shopping center sits undisturbed in the country of Georgia.

▲Inside the dilapidated Zhoekvara mall, safety hazards abound.

▲A department store in Minnesota got rid of everything, one way or another.

▲Even crisp morning light can't enliven this dilapidated space.

▲A mall is stripped down so dramatically it looks like it belongs in an action film.

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A couple of cats take advantage of the undisturbed space.

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This stair-climbing machine comes with the added boost of being terrified out of your mind!

▲People continue to walk through a mall in Zhuhai, China, next to demolished piles of rubble.

▲This Ohio mall was actually once the largest shopping center in the United States, with approximately 120 shops that employed about 5,000 people.

▲A disused four-storey shopping center in northern Lebanon housed around 1,000 Syrian refugees who fled the civil war next door, and the conflict led to the emergence of more than 1,400 informal settlements like this across the country.

▲This mall in Jakarta is only near-abandoned, due to low economic growth, which almost makes it even stranger to walk around in.

▲This abandoned shopping mall in the country of Georgia has been reduced to a marking spot for a few parked cars.

▲Will this shopping cart ever be put to its destined use again?

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All of these free parking spots wasted!

Creepy abandoned malls around the world

What is left of these huge, desolate buildings?

27/01/24 por StarsInsider

TRAVEL Spooky

Shopping malls are built with the intention of hosting thousands of people every day, which makes it especially creepy when the vast structures are abandoned and left to rubble and silence. Check out some fascinating remains of buildings that were once meant to be lively and welcoming places.