There's a sidewalk in the middle of a Marine Corps base in Virginia that leads to a church that isn't there anymore. It's the last piece of a town called Kopp — and it's not even the strangest ghost town on this list.

Virginia has more abandoned towns than almost any state on the East Coast, and they didn't die the way Old West ghost towns did. These got taken — by rivers that silted up, by reservoirs that swallowed farmland whole, by the federal government that needed land for war, and by a mine explosion that killed seventeen men in a single afternoon.

In this video, we count down 12 real Virginia ghost towns, from a tobacco port named "it will be fine" to a coastal village founded by shipwreck survivors, to a coal camp with a body count. Every story is pulled from historical records, local archives, and documented interviews — no legends, no guesses.

📍 Towns featured in this video:
12. Hickory Ridge, Prince William County
11. Ca Ira, Cumberland County
10. Colchester, Fairfax County
9. Joplin, Prince William County
8. Matildaville, Fairfax County
7. Union Level, Mecklenburg County
6. Pamplin, Appomattox County
5. Wash Woods, Virginia Beach
4. Carvins Cove, Roanoke County
3. Lackey, York County
2. Kopp, Prince William County
1. Derby, Wise County

💬 Which of these towns would you actually have lived in? Tell us in the comments.

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