Imagine that one of New York City's many islands became abandoned, and you came back ... However, the place would likely be overgrown with vegetation, and the buildings would be crumbling.

Screengrab from YouTube video shared by BTC Media On a small island of Papua New Guinea, a 4-foot-long creature moved through the overgrown rainforest covering the site of an abandoned village.

overgrown shadow of its former glory. Locally there was regret at the loss of what had once been an asset to the town and speculation about what would become of it. Today the 70-acre Festival Park ...

A Formula 1 track that reportedly cost over £500 million to construct was abandoned before it even held a single Grand Prix.