Pablo Escobar’s Abandoned Secret Island Mansion

Barü, Colombia

Far out in the Caribbean Sea, away from the tourist beaches, is a secret island that’s been untouched for hundreds of years. Called La Isla Grande, it’s home to 800 people who are cast off from technology and the outside world, and survive by fishing and farming. It’s here that Escobar built his palace.

At his peak, he ran the Medellin drug cartel and was the source of 80% of the world’s cocaine, and he held insane parties in this small town that resembled South Beach in the 80’s. After his capture, the palace was taken over by the government, and left to nature.