Found in the historic mining district high above Creede, Colorado, the Bachelor Loop is one drive that shows off Colorado’s vibrant past in an unforgettable way.
One day a giant went to play in the Namibian desert. He made a toytown village out of bits of things he found lying around; the husks of scorpion shells,
How once thriving Bankhead Alberta, in Banff National Park, became the Bankhead ghost town. Exploring Banff's abandoned coal mine.
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This was once upon a time the world’s northernmost kindergarten and primary school. Abandoned twenty years ago, Pyramiden coal-mining town on the northern edge of the world is a preserved display of what the Soviet Union wanted to offer in the Arctic if communism worked. It didn’t. No, there ain’t any hidden loudspeakers playing the Beatles. […]
Wir lieben die eigenartige Atmosphäre wenn wir durch die Geisterstadt Gwalia gehen. In Australien gibt es eine ganze Menge verlassener Geisterstädte.
This ghost town has been sitting in the Pennsylvania woods for years, but most people don't even know it's there.
Off The Rails Eureka Gold Mine Death Valley National Park California
There are more abandoned cities than you'd think. But they're also probably at least as creepy as you would imagine in your nightmares. Take a look at these ghost towns and get even more close and personal with Chernobyl Diaries, Now Playing.
Whether it’s a train cemetery in Bolivia or an Art Deco subway station underneath New York, these abandoned places are snapshots of history frozen in time.
By the turn of the 20th century, many mines ceased operations. Now, former mining towns have become abandoned ghost towns in Michigan.
The remaining structures of an early-20th-century mining town in Alaska’s Wrangell–St. Elias National Park and Preserve
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Exploring the new ghost town of Gilman, Colorado, a recently abandoned mining town. Homes, mining equipment and a train station left to the whims of time.
Sandon is a free and accessible ghost town in British Columbia. Travel back in time with this travel guide about this almost abandoned Canadian ghost town.
The remaining structures of an early-20th-century mining town in Alaska’s Wrangell–St. Elias National Park and Preserve
mine car and tracks from abandoned mine in Ophir, Utah.
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These photos capture the way things look after people leave.
Detailing a hike up to Lille, Alberta, a ghost town in the Crowsnest Pass.
Rhyolite ghost town (near Death Valley) is a well-preserved example of California late gold mining boom. This guide has Rhyolite's history and practical tips on how to visit.
The 49th state lives up to its moniker of "The Last Frontier," but it's also home to vibrant cities, a booming outdoor culture, and stunning mountains.
This massive abandoned mine cave in Kentucky is not known by many, but Mullin's Station is hauntingly beautiful.
While they still have a population of zero, abandoned towns such as Pripyat, Ukraine, and Bodie, California are seeing a revival as tourists travel from a far to snap photos.
Abandoned settlements can be found all over northern Chile. They are the remains of the once very lucrative nitrate industry. In the first half of the 20th century, towns were rapidly built to house the many
Empty streets and tattered houses with only remnants of the place it used to be - ghost towns in British Columbia are filled with history.
This is Shekhawati, a region of India in the barren landscape of Rajasthan's Thar Desert that was once a millionaires' paradise, but is now a collection of ghost towns.
Taken on 01 August 2014 in Namibia near Luderitz Kolmanskop Haalenberg (DSC_5871) freewheely.com: Cycling Africa beyond mountains and deserts until Cape Town
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Abandoned Copper Mine Alaska Kennecott
Ghost towns are towns or villages that have been abandoned by their original inhabitants, either due to a natural disaster, such as an earthquake, or for economic, demographic, environmental or structural reasons. These reasons can be the lack of modern conveniences, the obsolescence of the local economic activity (mining), the construction of new roads and railways that bypass the original town, the depletion of natural resources or simply due to the dwindling of an elderly population.
