Ghost Towns

Concrete strongholds stand guard over the Golden Gate.

The abandoned village of Skarð aptly illustrates the idiom "Don't put all your eggs in one basket."

A Turkish ghost town abandoned in a population exchange with Greece.

An abandoned Jazz Age dream home and con man's hideout in Death Valley.

Ghost town with a beer-drinking goat for mayor.

An abandoned movie set in the desert of West Texas.

An abandoned quicksilver mining town surrounded by the Big Bend parks.

Railroad came. People came. Railroad left. Town died.

An old saloon in the West filled with history, and according to some, a few dozen ghosts.

This French ghost town from World War II has been left as a memorial to German atrocities during World War II.

A village on the east coast of England that has almost completely eroded into the North Sea.

Once the most densely populated place in the world, this island is now a ghost town.

Healing Springs that once ran red with soldiers' blood.

Abandoned city hidden from the world by tropical forest and isolation on the coast of Kenya.

An old abandoned mining town in The Adirondacks where Theodore Roosevelt first learned of the shooting of President William McKinley.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.