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Ghost Towns

Kayaköy, Turkey

Abandoned Village of Kayakoy

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

Inyo, California

Scotty's Castle

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

Terlingua, Texas

Lajitas Ghost Town

Ghost town with a beer-drinking goat for mayor.

Permanently Closed

Contrabando

An abandoned movie set in the desert of West Texas.

Terlingua, Texas

Terlingua Ghost Town

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

Erwin, Tennessee

Lost Cove Settlement

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

Tombstone, Arizona

The Bird Cage Theater

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

Oradour-sur-Glane, France

Oradour

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

Dunwich, England

The Lost Town of Dunwich

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

Nagasaki, Japan

Gunkanjima Island

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

Atlanta, Georgia

Cascade Springs Nature Preserve

Healing Springs that once ran red with soldiers' blood.

Gedi Ruins

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

Newcomb, New York

Tahawus

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

Aristes, Pennsylvania

Centralia

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.