10 Abandoned Movie Sets You Can Visit In Real Life

6. Plaszow Camp, Poland - Schindler's List

The Plaszow concentration camp is not necessarily what you might expect to find on this list. After all, replica concentration camps are not "fun" visits, remaining instead monuments to the many atrocities of the Second World War under the Nazi regime.

However, you cannot visit the original site if you ventured out to Poland for a holiday. The original Plaszow was destroyed to hide traces of Nazi war crimes, and the area is now a nature reserve within the Krakow region.

So when Steven Spielberg came to document the life of Oskar Schindler (who is credited with having saved the lives of over a thousand Jewish people from death during the Holocaust) in his multi-Oscar winning film Schindler's List, he built a replica of the forced labour camp.

Spielberg had his replica of the camp built in the nearby Liban Quarry, which sits a few hundred metres from where the original camp would have been found. Today, the replica camp is dilapidated, rusting away in the limestone quarry it was constructed in as surrounding vegetation swallows it up.

Visiting this unsettling monument to past sins is no doubt a sobering reminder of one of modern history's bleakest periods.

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