A Victorian ghost town dubbed “Australia’s Schitt’s Creek” has just been sold off, from its hotel to its mining ruins, in a seven-figure deal that’s taken three years to be sealed.

In the U.S., eerie remnants of once-inhabited towns or villages exist in the form of "ghost towns," left in forgotten corners of the country. Nearly every U.S. state has some sort of ghost town, ...

Arizona has been a destination for thousands of hopeful settlers over the years. At one point, many of them were miners looking to find gold in the mineral-rich Sonoran desert mountains. But, just as ...

Lukka Bradburn traveled to rural Japan last year to document abandoned theme parks — and was surprised by what he found left behind in the wake of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster and after years ...

Wild West boomtowns that turned into hollow relics hold a macabre grip on travelers' imaginations, and Utah's abandoned sites ...

Cities don’t just disappear overnight. They fade, crack, and crumble under the weight of forces both visible and invisible — some sudden, others grinding slowly over decades. What makes thousands or ...

Walking through empty streets where laughter once filled the air feels deeply unsettling. These abandoned places tell stories of dreams that crumbled, disasters that changed everything, and ...

For the inquisitive minds and history buffs, Colorado has always possessed an insatiable allure. This is because of its fair share of abandoned mining settlements filled with crumbling buildings and ...

This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. 26 April 2005 UNHCR is alarmed by the ...