Seeing the new Olympic stadium and surrounding venues is one of the most exciting parts of the build up to each Olympic Games.

Every year the stadium gets bigger, the tracks get more impressive and the Olympic villages spread further and further across the city. But what happens at the end of each year, when the Olympics packs up and leaves?

This year’s games in Rio are expected to come to a cost of over $10 billion and with each Games the price tag only gets bigger.

Here are some Olympic venues that have been forgotten in the year’s after their glorious summer. From Athens to Beijing, with so many venues abandoned and so much money spent on each games, there must be a better way…