It's a relatively recent (1920s) city, turned to ghost town by flood immersion and subsequent recovery. Or a perfect set for your post-apocalypse movie feature.
This Ghostly Town Spent 25 Years Underwater Before Resurfacing
At one time, Epecuén was a booming resort city: a grand town on a beautiful lake, attracting vacationers from all over Argentina in the 1920s with its revitalizing salt waters. There were hotels, nightclubs, and restaurants. Today, it’s a thicket of bleached white ruins, latticed with rusted steel and fallen power lines.
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So that's what Florida's gonna look like
Only if it ever rises back above the waves.
I've seen pictures of Fukushima, and even those are rather spooky.
Come to think of it, with all of the Olympic talk, doesn't Sochi look a little abandoned right now?
I can't read Russian, but according to Gizmodo, these pictures show Sochi in August, just six months after the Olympics ended.
http://macos.livejournal.com/939210.html
http://gizmodo.com/just-six-months-after-the-olympics-sochi-looks-like-a-1626519139
Well, most winter sports resorts don't look very lively in the summer. On the other hand, Sochi was actually a summer resort, as I recall, which was why it was such an unusual place to hold the winter games.
Not if you're Putin.
Putin makes Chuck Norris look like Chuck E. Cheese.
Putin can convert a summer resort into a winter wonderland.
Putin can have t.A.T.u. perform while promoting his country's anti-gay laws.