Ghost towns, those eerie remnants of bygone eras, have long captivated the imaginations of historians, adventurers, and the general public alike. These abandoned settlements, once bustling hubs of ...

A CREEPY ghost town - dramatically abandoned by its residents over 60 years ago - has started to see visitors flood back to the eerie streets. The forgotten town of Yukon, Florida, inside the city ...

This community of about 1,000 was doomed when a garbage fire ignited abandoned coal mines that ran right under the town. Despite every effort to extinguish it, the fire has been burning since 1962.

This abandoned gold rush town is one of the best places to get a real taste of what the Wild West was all about. Gold was discovered here in 1862, and within a year, this town had sprung up with ...

Is there anything spookier that wandering around a town once bustling with people and activity that is now abandoned and deserted? Often nicknamed ghost towns, these once populated places become ...

Despite being just an hour-and-a-half’s drive from Madrid, this abandoned town really feels a world away from the hustle and bustle of the Spanish capital, famed for its incredible architecture ...

WSJ’s Jonathan Cheng traveled to an abandoned “ghost town” to see the challenge China’s real-estate slump poses for the government. Photo: Antoine Morel for The Wall Street Journal ...

So he picked Fossa, a town deep in the middle of the country that was abandoned after a 2009 earthquake ... They didn’t know if they were real or imagined, but nobody wanted to leave the ...