But for these lower North Island towns, it seems an electronic sign could be to blame. The sign, outside of Bulls, says State Highway 1 is closed and to use State Highways 49, 4, 47, and 41 instead.

But for these lower North Island towns, it seems an electronic sign could be to blame. The sign, outside Bulls, says State Highway 1 is closed and to use State Highways 49, 4, 47, and 41 instead. But ...

As the diamond supply dwindled, so the townspeople left in droves with possessions and homes completely abandoned. By 1956, ...

Oliver Goldsmith sorrowing over the Deserted Village was brought to mind last week when the 8,000 folk of Ware, Massachusetts mill town, looked despairingly at one another. The cause: most of them ...

The strange history of Kolmanskop in Namibia began in 1908 when a railway worker walking in the desert ... deserted. Today it is a tourist attraction, but the dunes are slowly reclaiming the town.

The town was completely abandoned by 1956 and the desert began to reclaim it. Just off the coast of Nagasaki is Hashima Island, also called “Battleship Island,” a coal-mining location that ...

In Kisumu, all markets in the county were closed while the town's Central Business District remained deserted. Kisumu streets remained deserted. [Collins Oduor, Standard] June Maiga, a vegetable ...