All news on the topic: Ghost Town

Forest City in Johor on the southern tip of Malaysia was meant to house tens of thousands of aspirational Chinese families, but is largely empty years after the project began

A cowboy ghost town which houses a former brothel is now on sale for just over £1.3million in Silverton, Colorado, US, in Colorado's Old Town Square

As one of the most haunted counties in the country, Devon is home to an eeire tale which has haunted locals for generations. For hundreds of years people reported sounds of a pack of phantom horses led by the Devil himself, who also once bought a beer at a local pub.

The abandoned town of El Alamin is a 90-minute drive from Madrid but it is a world away from the Spanish capital, which is home to more than three million people

The seaside town of Horden, County Durham, has been left a 'ghost town' since its colliery was shut, with rife drugs problems and houses priced at £5,000

Eagle Mountain, a ghost town in California's desert, has been purchased by a company named Ecology Mountain Holdings, sparking curiosity about its potential revival

From faded boom towns to places abandoned due to natural disasters these husks of their former selves serve as reminders that civilisation doesn't always find a way and what's been built can melt away

A bustling and busy town in Kennicott, Alaska, US, once attracted thousands of miners from 1905 until 1938 and was responsible for over $200million of copper and nine million ounces of silver