Ghost Towns

The eerie ruins of a remote abandoned hamlet said to be founded by the survivors of a shipwreck.

A little-visited ghost town state park offers a glimpse into Montana’s "Silver Queen."

This off-the-beaten-path abandoned town is a relic of Montana's silver mining boom.

Don't bother sending any mail to this ghost town.

A creepy, deserted mock Arabian village can be found in the middle of the Qatari desert.

A swath of France so devastated by war it is still forbidden to go there.

The stone-covered graves lie within the ruins of an Old West ghost town.

The ruined remains of a coal mining ghost town are hidden within the woods.

A deserted island in southwest Japan that once sheltered persecuted Christians.

The abandoned fishing village was swept right into the sea.

A desert settlement founded and later abandoned by Hawaiian members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Utah's Skull Valley.

An abandoned airport in the middle of nowhere.

Salt is slowly eating away this abandoned saltworks town in the desert.

The ruins of an abandoned 18th-century town that is slowly being reclaimed by the forest.

This once-booming gold mining hub was basically abandoned overnight.

An abandoned fishing village in pre-oil Qatar.

A crumbling ghost town with prime views of the dam that doomed it.

The abandoned military base looks like a post-apocalyptic wasteland.