Another Ghost Town, this time its an amusement park in China. The Disneyesque castle and medieval ramparts of this theme park north of Beijing, conceived nearly 20 years ago, lie abandoned. These pictures show what happens when the amusement runs out! Now local…
The empty New South China Mall, Dongguang, Guangdong is big enough to be called a ghost town. The South China Mall is the biggest shopping mall in the world and opened in 2005. It is more than twice as big…
Now the biggest Ghost Town in Asia, its the new (empty city) of Chenggong. “In Chenggong, there are more than 100,000 new apartments with no occupants,” according to local residents “It looks to outsiders as though the great Chinese building…
Time stood still for Steins, New Mexico in the middle of the Forties. Once a thriving coal dept for the Southern Pacific Railroad, the increased use of diesel to power transport saw the small town – population just 1,000…
In May 1962, five members of a volunteer first company were hired by the Centralia Borough Council to clean up the landfill of the town of Centralia in Pennsylvania. After burning the dump, the firefighters let the landfill burn for…
Hashima Island; commonly called Gunkanjima (???; meaning “Battleship Island”) is one among 505 uninhabited islands in the Nagasaki Prefecture about 15 kilometers from Nagasaki itself. The island was populated from 1887 to 1974 as a coal mining facility. The…
Americas newest ghost town Detroit – The fastest growing ghost town in USA? Once the cornerstone of America‘s industrial revolution, Detroit, at almost 50 percent, now holds the highest rate of unemployment in the United States. The City is deeply…
This town was founded in 1862, around a nitrate mine in La Palma, although the name of Humberstone did not come with it’s foundation, but later, in 1925, when it was named after the mine manager who brought prosperity…
Varosha is a settlement in the unrecognised Republic of Northern Cyprus. Prior to the 1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus, it was the modern tourist area of the city of Famagusta. For the last three decades, it has been left as…
This island is one among 505 uninhabited islands in the Nagasaki Prefecture of Japan about 15 kilometers from Nagasaki itself. It is also known as “Gunkan-jima” or Battleship Island thanks to its high sea walls. It began in 1890 when…
Ordos is one of the twelve major subdivisions of Inner Mongolia, China. It is located within the Ordos Loop of the Yellow River. Although mainly rural, Ordos is administered as a prefecture-level city. The administrative seat is at Dongsheng. The…
