22 Creepiest Abandoned Places Around The World

4. Tawergha, Lybia

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A former bastion of support for Moammar Gadhafi, Tawergha has now been left abandoned as a mark of score-settling.

The roughly 25,000 residents have now fled, fearing retribution from the neighboring city of Misrata who suffered at the hands of Tawergha during the Libyan civil war war and now vow to let nobody return there.

 
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