GHOST TOWNS

There’s something incredibly eerie about a town with no inhabitants, but there are many such places dotted around the world, left behind by those who once called them home. With no one remaining to maintain houses, buildings and roads, they slowly degrade over time, until one day rusted ruins and old stone structures are the only clues that humans once thrived there.

There are many reasons for an entire population to abandon a once-prosperous town, with floods, earthquakes, droughts or war driving people away for their own safety. Though both natural and human-made disasters can make an area uninhabitable, some settlements are left behind by