Nothing will make your skin prick like an abandoned building. Jails, police stations, and former asylums are popular destinations for people who love to freak themselves out by touring spaces once occupied by the down and out.

Those aren't the only formerly occupied places that will give you the willies, though. Abandoned hotels are just are eerie. Just think of the many lovers' quarrels, sketchy deals, and who knows what else probably went down in those guest rooms?

Hotels and Resorts that have been simply walked away from sometimes sit, just as they were. Without decades of wear and tear, you can imagine what they looked like in their heyday, and it's bizarre.

Check out these twenty former posh places people used to vacation at that now sit derelict and deserted.

20 Grossinger Resort Used To Be The Playground Of The Rich

In the 1950s and 1960s, this was the place to be for wealthy New Yorkers. Skiing in the winter, lounging in the summer? It was a bit of a rich person's playground. Elizabeth Taylor even held one of her weddings here. After the resort owner passed away in 1972, the place got sold off to a developer, but then it fell into shambles.

19 Penn Hills Resort No Longer Houses Lovers

The Poconos Mountains used to be referred to as the honeymoon capital of the world. The Penn Hills Resort catered to people who had recently said their, " I Do's" or were looking to reignite their flames. The place was known for heart-shaped bathtubs and wedding bell-shaped beds. It closed down in 2009 and was taken out by a fire in 2017.

18 Overlook Mountain House Is Nothing More Than Eerie Rubble

Back in the early 1800s until the 1900s, Overlook Mountain Resort was the gem of the Catskills Mountain Range. The country's most elite spent their summers here. In 1940, the former luxury resort closed its doors and said its final goodbyes. The forest has all but reclaimed the land the building once stood upon. And now it is nothing but eerie.

17 Coco Palms Looks Like It Could Be Taken Out By An Island Breeze

In 1992, a severe hurricane ripped through Coco Palms Resort, making it a wasteland and no longer usable. After it closed down, it stood vacant and unnerving for a little over twenty years. In 2015, The Hyatt Hotel chain started plans to revamp parts of the formerly famous hotel, but redevelopment plans for this place just keep falling through.

16 Concord Resort Hotel Had A Pretty Good Run

The Concord was located in Kiamesha Lake, New York, near the Grossinger Resort, in what used to be known as the Borscht Belt. Famous entertainers like Barbra Streisand, Judy Garland, and Tony Bennett all graced the Concord's stage in the 1950s and 1960s, at the height of the hotel's popularity. Eventually, business declined, and the place closed its doors after sixty-one years.

15 Salton Sea Stands In Solitude

This seaside town was the cat's meow in the 1950s and 1960s. Located in Southern California, Salton Sea was an entire resort town full of cottages and resorts where people took off for fun in the sun. The town pretty much went ghost after Hurricane Kathleen came through in the mid-seventies. Now it sits still, stinking of rotting fish and sadness.

14 The Baker Hotel Was Once A Place Of Glitz And Glamour

The Baker Hotel was Big Money, Texas. The Mineral Wells, Texas resort first opened its opulent doors in 1929 and stayed welcoming guests until the mid-1970s. That's when it became desolate and empty and has remained that way for decades. Even in its worn state, anyone can see that it was once a space of true beauty.

13 The Nevele Is Nowhere We Want To Get Near These Days

This abandoned mess is another building that was once part of the hoity-toity Borscht Belt located up in the Catskills Mountains. It seems frozen in time, still containing bedspreads and window treatments that were left behind after the owners walked away from it. It seems like a total waste to us. We would have taken the sheets and bedspreads.

12 El Hotel Del Salto Gives Us The Heebie Jeebies

This former Colombian hotel is rumored to be inhabited still, but only by spirits. It once brought in droves of tourists because of the nearby Tequendama Falls, but after the river became overly polluted, the place closed down permanently. Looking at it now, you couldn't get us to go within one thousand feet of this thing.

11 Ancien Hôtel du Belvédère-Rayon Vert Is No Longer Taking Guests But Is Welcoming Visitors

This now-abandoned building is still stunning, even as it stands vacant in the south of France. The former hotel was built by architect Léon Baille in 1932 and came with tennis courts, a ballroom, and a theater. The art-deco building no longer takes reservations, but people can still walk through it and take in its former glory.

10 Sanshi UFO Houses Of Taiwan Really Are Out Of This World

This Taiwanese town was built in 1978 for U.S. military personnel who found themselves posted in Eastern Asia. A lack of needed investments, odd losses of life during construction, and financial losses forced "Pod City" to close down. Interestingly it still garnishes visitors even now because of its eeriness.

9 Bokor Palace Hotel In Cambodia Sits In A Ghost Town

This was the place to be for people looking for rest and relaxation outside of the sizzling city of Phnom Penh. What was once a bustling French resort town, is now a space of empty buildings and nothing much more. People can't stay there, but like so many other abandoned resort towns, it draws in the curious explorers.

8 Old Gagra Resort Community Makes Us Want To Stay On The Other Side Of The World

Located on the coast of the Black Sea at the foothills of the Caucasus Mountains, this health resort was the gem of the former Soviet Union. Yes, you read that right. There was a ritzy, health spa in one of the most oppressed placed the Earth has ever known. It was strange then, but now that it's empty and falling apart, it's really, really strange.

7 Hotel Of Doom? Hotel of NO!

North Korea is not exactly known for its glamourous resorts and hotels, considering tourism isn't something that they are vastly keen on. Yet in the middle of the small country, stands a 105-story pyramid-shaped hotel, that never ended up getting finished. It just hangs out there, looming and reminding us why N.K. makes us feel uncomfortable.

6 The Lee Hotel Caters To A Different Crowd Now

Detroit used to be a city full of vibrancy and activity; now, it holds more abandoned buildings than functional ones. The Lee Plaza Hotel came to life in the roaring 1920s and housed fifteen floors full of residential apartments, lobbies, dining rooms, lounges, and even ballrooms. Today it sits crumbling away, just like all of the other forgotten buildings in Detroit.

5 Ducor Palace Hotel in Liberia Is No Longer A Place To Rest Your Wealthy Head

The Ducor Plaza Hotel was one of Liberia's first international-class hotels ever constructed. For many years it held the coveted title as one of the only five star hotels in all of Africa. Unfortunately, civil war descended on Liberia, and the hotel was forced to close its doors. Now it looks like this.

4 The Diplomat Hotel In The Philippines Might Be Haunted

This now-abandoned hotel has had one thousand lives. It housed refugees from the Japanese Army Forces and once got bombed out. New life was breathed into the structure in the 1940s, and the place served as a hotel for thirty years before falling into despair. Rumor had it the site had its fair share of ghostly activity, so we won't ever be checking it out.

3 Nakagusuku Hotel in Okinawa, Japan Is In Complete Ruins

Legend has it; a wealthy businessman wanted to take full advantage of this place and put a luxurious lodging resort atop it, even though the locals all warned him an ancient gravesite already claimed the spot. He did it anyway, and, you guessed it, problems ensued. The lore continues on, saying the man slept there, at the site of the unfinished hotel, trying to prove it wasn't haunted. No one exactly knows what happened to him.

2 Sheraton Rarotonga On Cook Islands Is A Jungle Relic

Rarotonga seemed like the perfect place to build a resort hotel. The sands, the waters, and the sun all made this space seem like the ultimate vacation destination, so of course, a fancy hotel went up there. The Sheraton never ended up getting completed, and sits there to this day, surrounded by jungle foliage and goats.

1 Varosha, Famagusta In Cyprus Is As Desolate As Can Be

This isn't merely a building that has been abandoned and left forgotten. Varosha, Famagusta In Cyprus is a whole resort town, sitting completely still and falling apart. The place sits in just as it did when it was vacated. Tables are set, clothes sit folded and pressed, and 1970s cars sit by the properties. It is a legend stuck in time.