22 Creepiest Abandoned Places Around The World

17. Lynch, Kentucky

In this Oct. 18, 2014 photo, a rusted conveyer belt leads to an abandoned coal power plant in Lynch, Ky. The community of Lynch, built as a company town in 1917 by U.S. Coal and Coke, a subsidiary of U.S. Steel, was at the time the largest coal camp in th
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Lynch was built as a company town in 1917 by U.S. Coal and Coke to house the mine's workers, and was the largest coal camp in the world with a peak population of about 10,000.

When the industry declined, the houses were sold off and the population diminished massively.

 
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