Abandoned Places in Berat

A vast network of carved tunnels once used to store giant fuel tanks — including a cathedral-like hemispherical hall and unfinished galleries that hint at even grander plans.

Rusty old communist-era rides in a municipal culture-and-leisure park — a small Ferris wheel, swings and carousels, long out of use. Entry to the park is completely free and open.

Around twelve independent ammunition storage tunnels carved into the sheer walls of a scenic canyon — complete with balconies facing each other across the gorge, a bridge flipped by a flash flood, and a welcoming old woman who lives in the nearby...

Abandoned tunnels said to have once held Albania's national gold reserves — a place where Cold War secrecy meets the chaos of the 1990s.

A former paper and cardboard plant that has survived remarkably well — intact, with all its rusting machinery still in place and a chemical laboratory hidden inside the administrative building.

A remote mountain complex built to shelter Enver Hoxha and his inner circle in wartime — hidden away in one of the most remote corners of the country.

A remarkably spacious tunnel system carved into a cliffside in the heart of Berat, reportedly intended as an underground hospital — now moonlighting as a warehouse for Christmas trees and Valentine's Day hearts.

Epic underground weapons and ammunition storage buried deep in a scenic gorge — one of the most photogenic sites in the storage tunnels category, complete with blast doors, corrugated concrete vaults, and a wild mountain setting.

The ruins of a former ammunition storage base, best known for its hillside storage tunnels — some intact, some burned out, some never finished.

A vast subterranean ammunition complex carved into the Albanian mountains during the Hoxha era — one of the largest underground industrial facilities in the country, now abandoned and heavily guarded.

A communist-era textile mill in Berat — one workshop stands frozen in time, with East German looms, sewing machines and spools still in place alongside original office interiors.

A two-storey village school with a sports ground out front — classroom decor, furniture, books and exercise books still in place, plus preserved animals in the biology room and physics apparatus on the shelves.

Fifteen protected ammunition storage tunnels, some linked in clusters by connecting passages, others standing alone — twelve of the southern ones fitted with original blast doors, and a handful of northern tunnels still holding leftover ammunition.

A former military storage tunnel, stripped of its blast doors and turned into a wine cellar. The barrels now stand abandoned — cracked and dried out. Two iron-door entrances; slip in through a hole cut in one, or the vent opening beside it.