This abandoned gold rush town is one of the best places to get a real taste of what the Wild West was all about. Gold was discovered here in 1862, and within a year, this town had sprung up with ...

Not every town gets to stick around forever. Some start with a bang—gold rush fever, a mining boom, a railroad deal—only to ...

China’s ghost cities represent a major problem with the country’s real estate market. For decades, China’s economy was driven by real estate, so much so that the government often encouraged ...

One lesser-known feature of Italy, however, is its so-called ghost towns, which number around 5,000. Italians call these abandoned towns “the many sleeping beauties”, all waiting for curious ...

China still has a startling number of vacant real-estate developments, judging from new satellite analysis by DigitalGlobe and Business Insider. Chinese ghost cities have made headlines for nearly ...

Often nicknamed ghost towns, these once populated places become unoccupied for all kinds of reasons - natural and manmade disasters, changing economic conditions and political upheaval ...

Take a step back in time while visiting these historic – and slightly spooky – ghost towns. While the term "ghost town" may sound like a village haunted by spirits, it actually refers to an ...

The property manager, neighbors, and business owners say it's become a crime-ridden homeless encampment over the past two years.

Abandoned Chinese mega city that's worth £68bn but is missing one key element ...

other cities in the northeast and Midwest look increasingly like ghost towns. Go back more than a few decades and that divide wasn't nearly as stark. The US manufacturing industry was booming ...

Rehabilitating abandoned ... and wait for real estate developers to clean up the parcels and hopefully rebuild. As a group of economists who study municipal finance of cities experiencing ...