Jaisalmer Airport in Rajasthan, India.Anindito Mukherjee/Reuters
- Some airports around the world have become abandoned due to financial woes, such as Ciudad Real Central Airport in Spain.
- Others, like Sukhumi Babushara Airport in Abkhazia, have been damaged in conflict.
- The vacant, dilapidated spaces are occasionally used as movie sets or for scrap metal.
From deserted Olympic venues to silent amusement parks to hotels that haven't had guests in centuries, abandoned places continue to capture the imagination of urban explorers and curious people around the world.
As places we normally think of as crowded, busy hubs of travel, airports are particularly eerie when they've been sitting unused for years.
Here are nine eerie abandoned airports around the world — and how they got to be this way.