Although these photographs of deserted places around the globe may haunt you, they have a strange, breathtaking beauty at the same time.

1. Island Home, Finland

2. An abandoned church with parishioners that still linger. (Netherlands)

3. Methodist Church, Gary, Indiana

4. Abandoned Boathouse, Obersee Lake, Germany

5. Abandoned mining track, Taiwan

6. Soviet naval testing station in Makhachkala, Russia