Places riche103 Wants to Go

What was once the base for Russia's first nature reserve is now a ghost town, right on the shore of Lake Baikal.

A town whose main resource was blue asbestos... what could possibly go wrong?

This former Mormon settlement is reemerging from the receding waters of Lake Mead.

At one time this small mining village was the highest town in America but now it sits abandoned while the mine churns on.

Despite finally receiving electricity in 1970, this tiny town is now deserted.

Silver in the hills led to the speedy creation of this boom town and a lack of it saw the town abandoned nearly as quickly.

This historic iron-working village is now a ghost town so immaculate that it looks as though it was recently built.

The final remnant of the Arkansas zinc industry is this historically protected ghost town.

This tiny cluster of abandoned buildings looks like the future of the ghost town - today!

As the aging humans of this Japanese village die off one local artisan is replacing them with eerie homonculi.

Once the nail factory shut its doors, this Swedish factory town was abandoned, leaving behind a modern ghost town.

The ruins of a bombed medieval village memorialize the destruction of the Spanish Civil War.

This picturesque ghost town is located on the banks of the Suwannee River.

The site of a 19th century "dream city" that almost rivaled Chicago before being swallowed by the Indiana sand dunes.

A Franco-era dam flooded (almost) everyone out of this centuries-old Aragonese town.

An abandoned beach resort in Normandy reclaimed by artists.

A 19th century pearling and fishing village abandoned before Qatar's economic boom.

A hidden gem of a saloon in the middle of a ghost town.

On a dusty county road sit the ruins of a ghost town's abandoned church.

The abandoned train depot now doubles as a well-placed rest stop for those who take the road less traveled.

The abandoned fishing village was swept right into the sea.

This modern French ossuary contains the jumbled bones of 130,000 WWI soldiers.

Some of the ancient-looking huts among these strange rock formations aren't ancient at all, but built as part of a movie set.

An abandoned fishing village in pre-oil Qatar.