Thousands of residents were forced out of their homes in a small town nearly 60 years ago and today it remains empty.

It is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site as it gives researchers and tourists a glimpse of the era of Japanese industrialization. In the U.S., one of the best-preserved ghost towns you can visit ...

Lying deep in the African desert sits the colourful and supersaturated hot springs of the world's 'hottest' town.

Only around 200 people still live in and around the area, embracing the isolation of one of the most remote ghost towns in the world. Video by Matt Dworzańczyk The Erlitou site, dating back to ...

In a new research article, a seismologist argues that earthquakes are the reason for the mysterious lights associated with a ...

Today, we consider them ghost towns. They died for many reasons. Some had bad soil. Some didn’t survive the change from river transportation to railroads. Some faded away before hardly anything could ...

“As you can see, it became a ghost town,” said Hussein Barakat, 38, whose home in the southern city of Rafah was flattened. “There is nothing,” he said, as he sat drinking coffee on a ...

For a vacation to Italy, Ramy Awad wanted an adventure. So he picked Fossa, a town deep in the middle of the country that was abandoned after a 2009 earthquake. But things quickly went sideways ...

JENIN, West Bank (Reuters) - An Israeli military operation in Jenin has turned the West Bank refugee camp into what residents ...

Alex Sarha and his wife, Nicole, had passed through Shaniko, the ghost town in Oregon once known as the wool capital of the world. After the town’s hotel reopened in 2023, they returned for a ...