As you might have guessed, given that Hough is a seismologist for the USGS, the study she and her team recently published in ...

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

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

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 ...

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

Bodie, California Nestled in the heart of California, Bodie once thrived as a bustling gold-mining town during the late 1800s ...

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 ...

Astronomers have investigated three ultra-faint dwarf galaxies that are located in a region of space far away from the ...

Pennsylvania’s coal region ghost town, Centralia, continues to capture the imagination and attract tourists, even when ...

JENIN: An Israeli military operation in Jenin has turned the West Bank refugee camp into what residents and some officials describe as a ghost town, causing destruction on a scale not seen there ...