Craco is located in the Region of Basilicata and the Province of Matera. About 25 miles inland from the Gulf…
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The Spanish ghost town of Ciudad Valdeluz Ciudad Valdeluz is a suburb 60 kilometers (37 miles) northeast of Madrid, Spain.…
Read More »The town was founded in 1873 when prospectors built log cabins near their claims. Because three rivers meet nearby it…
Read More »Gold was discovered here by Jack Mann in 1878.This townsite is located at about 11,800 ft and an aerial tramway…
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Read More »The medieval Armenian ghost town of Ani In the Turkish province of Kars, near the Turkish – Armenian border, there’s…
Read More »Prypiat, the ghost town of Chernobyl When the Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster took place in 1986, a large area of land…
Read More »The old houses of Kolmanskop have long ago been abandoned to the desert ands stand as a silent testament to…
Read More »Cahawba, AL Cahawba has a pretty illustrious history for a ghost town: from 1820 to 1826, it served as Alabama’s…
Read More »St. Elmo, CO Established in the late 1870s, St. Elmo was once a highfalutin gold mining town and popular whistle…
Read More »Viivikonna is probably Estonia’s most famous ghost town. Once a mining town of a few thousand people, its population has…
Read More »A century ago, King Island was a bustling community of 200 people who passed their days hunting seals and their…
Read More »Doel – 400-year-old village north-west of Antwerp that has been at the heart of a political battle for survival for…
Read More »The Rush Historic District is a zinc mining region of the Ozark Mountains in Arkansas. Now located within Buffalo National…
Read More »Cherepovetz City (the name loosely translates as “City of Skulls”), the center of the Russian North-West SeveroStal industrial zone: Here’s…
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