A deserted Gold Rush town, a haunted pearl fishing village and an eerie abandoned island – these ghost towns all lie frozen ...

The Ruins of 12 Abandoned Islands These islands all have long been deserted by their former inhabitants. While the towns and cities built on them have been left largely to ruin, they all have an ...

Ghost towns are abandoned settlements that once thrived, often due to economic or environmental changes. Alan Vernon / Getty ...

This island off the southern coast of Japan played ... It's not your average ghost town, as travelers will find a town lined with cobblestone streets, and a castle and monastery amidst remnants ...

Shengshan Island is a completely abandoned island town in Eastern China — and it was captured on video by a visitor. All of the structures are still standing, now covered by ivy and other foliage.

While other countries have ghost towns, Japan has a whole ghost island! Hashima Island is located nine miles off the coast of Nagasaki. The island was developed by the Mitsubishi company in the ...

An island in Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan, has been abandoned for over half a century, but retains the eerie architecture of its once bustling past. Hashima Island is among 505 uninhabited islands ...

A deserted island in Antarctica was once bustling with scientists and researchers but is now left eerily abandoned for tourists to explore. Deception Island is now a popular dark tourist ...

a secret ghost town just north of New York City. Alan Weisman, author of The World Without Us, and Cal Flyn, author of Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape, offer insights on ...

The man-made Hoffman and Swinburne Islands have been given over to nature. These artificial landmasses in Lower New York Bay were constructed with landfill in the 1870s to quarantine newly arrived ...