30 eerie pictures that show what happens to Olympic venues after the games end

The 2018 Winter Olympics are starting on Thursday, February 8th in Pyeongchang, South Korea.

After the medals have been awarded and the athletes have all gone home until the next games, host cities are left with massive leftover stadiums and venues. After that, it's often hard to find a use for giant stadiums, pools, and courses.

Sometimes cities are able to successfully repurpose parts of their Olympic set-ups, but oftentimes these giant investments are torn down or abandoned.

Here are 30 photos that show what happened to recent Olympic sites after everyone left.

The 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, took place less than a decade before the Bosnian War.

The city was under siege, and though it's largely recovered in the years since it ended, many Olympic sites, like this ski jump, have been left to the elements.

Kosovo Stadium, where the opening ceremony was held, belongs to the dogs now.