China's eerie luxury ghost village is full of abandoned mansions

(ODDITY CENTRAL) – In the foothills of Shenyang, an industrial city in northeastern China lies the mysterious State Guest Mansions project, a real estate complex of more than 250 luxury mansions, all of which are abandoned.

The story of State Guest Mansions began in 2010, when business in the Chinese real estate sector was booming. Property giant Greenland Group bought up hectares of land in the foothills around Shenyang and began work on what was supposed to be a retreat for the region’s rich and powerful. 260 European-style villas began rising out of the ground, complete with marble floors and gilded chandeliers hanging from the ceilings, but for some strange reason that has yet to be revealed, development stopped in 2018 and the place has been a ghost town ever since.

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“Everything here has been left abandoned,” a local man recently told AFP. “It all feels quite creepy.”

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