When that purpose vanished, so did the towns, leaving behind empty streets and forgotten dreams. These places tell us what happens when a town’s only reason for existing suddenly disappears.

R Kulawiak/Shutterstock From countless boomtowns created in pursuit of riches during the Gold Rush to collapsed industrial sites founded in the Gilded Age, America is dotted with abandoned towns.

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 ...

Inside eerie abandoned funeral home full of coffins, embalming fluids and rotten hearses ...

Meredith Tabbone: Holy moly. Narrator: Over 20 towns across Italy have started selling abandoned homes for a single euro, or about $1.10. For the sake of this video, we'll call them dollar homes.

These eerie, abandoned towns narrate tales from the past and can be witnessed across the globe. India too has its fair share of ghost towns which are a beautiful amalgam of history, mystery ...

The remnants of Nevada’s abandoned boomtowns and settlements are scattered across the desert, if you know where to look. Experts say that Nevada has up to 600 ghost towns throughout the state.

Not all ghost towns are alike, however. Some were abandoned and left to the desert, all evidence of any community now gone. Others are what’s known as “living ghost towns,” partially ...

Other major nuclear accidents have prompted evacuations that turned cities and villages into ghost towns. Here's what some of these abandoned areas look like after the nuclear disasters.

Now, former residents of four towns inside that zone are being invited back, but officials have found these towns have new inhabitants. Officials roam the towns with air rifles and set traps to ...