As of the 2010 Census, it had no recorded population and a deathly silence settled upon Kadykchan - today the largest ghost town in Siberia. A walk through the abandoned town offers such ...

In 2015, Hashima received the designation of 'UNESCO World Heritage Site'. The most well-known ghost town in the world is Pripyat, which lies in Ukraine. When a portion of the Chernobyl Nuclear ...

But the ministry’s figures show that prices are rapidly picking up steam in regional areas of Japan. In Kutchan, a town located in the core of the Niseko resort area of Hokkaido, land prices ...

It is also the second overall driest in the world. It is here that travellers will find the starkly beautiful ghost town of Humberstone. The town became one of the centres for saltpetre mining in ...

In the fall of 2020, the town of Tsushima’s Watazumi Shrine was damaged by a typhoon that struck the area, destroying one of its torii gates that rises out of the bay waters adjacent to the shrine. In ...