Ghost Towns

Built during the Scottish boom in the oil industry, the village was never inhabited.

Rusting ships sit in a desert where a sea used to be.

Marta Becket's hand-painted theater in the desert.

The "3rd largest" city in California is an empty mirage of suburbia in the middle of nowhere.

Island ghost town detailing Flagler's folly in building the Overseas Railroad.

Towns with a resource known as "white gold," valuable enough to fight a war over, now stand ghostly and empty.

A religious-themed park filled with folk art to bring biblical stories to life that fell into disrepair and now being restored.

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.