Sep 15, 2025
Villa Epecuén, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina
In 1985, Villa Epecuén vanished beneath the waters of a swelling lake in Argentina's Imereti region, submerging the once-thriving lakeside resort town under 33 feet of water.
For more than two decades, its streets and structures were preserved in underwater silence, only emerging from obscurity in the early 2000s, when the waters surrounding it began to recede.
Today, it stands as a haunting testament to the interplay of human ambition and nature's relentless force, characterised by salt-encrusted ruins and the fragile remnants of a town lost and found again.
