This video is about an abandoned Theme park somewhere in Germany. This place is abandoned for a few years now and you are really starting to see the decay. It was build in 1995 with a few ...

Until the late '80s, Hohenschönhausen was a prison for East Germany's secret police ... While many abandoned buildings are spooky places to visit, this one is a mystical affair.

The Marienberg fortress is said to be haunted ... the event in Germany that it is in some other countries, that doesn’t mean that there’s a lack of eerie and spooky places to explore.

Lots left vacant, offices full of equipment but devoid of people, entire villages literally left to the wolves--this hour, TED speakers share stories about bringing new life to abandoned places.

Oliver Smith is the author of the Atlas of Abandoned Places, A Journey of the World’s Forgotten Wonders. He spoke to Express.co.uk about the “poetic” history of abandoned places.