Abandoned

Wittenoom is a ghost town of about 8 people who receive no public services. The Western Australian Government announced in December 2006 that the town would be degazetted, and in June 2007, Hon Jon Ford, Minister for Regional Development, announced that the townsite status had been officially removed. As a result, the town’s name will […]

Dogpatch USA, an abandoned amusement park, is located in Marble Falls in Arkansas’ northwest corner. The property used to house a trout farm, but its owner decided to sell it. The family hired OJ Snow, a real estate developer, to sell the property in 1966. OJ Snow was interested in the land. This location was

A book has been published about the mystery that lie behind Ipatiev House located in Yekaterinburg which was where the last Russian family of the Emperor had been executed using a firing squad. Vitaly Shytov, a photojournalist and historian, has spent over 40 years studying the tragic history of the house. The house was originally

Cairo (pronounced “Care-O,” is located near the intersection of the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers at the southernmost edge of Illinois. I was immediately intrigued by the abandoned roads and the crumbling buildings that are abandoned located in the weirdest and most sad cities I’ve been to. As railroads traversed across the United States, some steamboat

The abandoned Poconos hotel is haunted by the legacy of romantic gimmicks and a fugitive who is violent. Honeymooning has been a long-standing custom across the United States. This is why numerous honeymoon resorts and hotels sprung into existence throughout the 20th century. Of course there were some places that were shut down or destroyed

Tashirojima, a small inhabited island in the Japanese Prefecture of Miyagi, is called. It is located west of Ajishima in the Pacific Ocean, off the Oshika Peninsula. The island has only 100 inhabitants, most of whom are over 65. Aoshima Island, one of Japan’s “cat islands”, is home to about 100 cats. These small islands

When a certain location attracts paranormal investigators and ghost hunters, one is tempted to learn more about the history of that location and what caused those ghosts to remain; more importantly, one wants to know if all of the legends and tales about the location are true. This is true of the Old St. Johns

Most people who buy a tropical island are doing so to live in luxury. Brendon Grimshaw was a unique individual. The same thing isn’t happened with Moyenne Island, the Seychelles Grimshaw bought. Grimshaw visited the Seychelles archipelago, which is made up of 115 Indian Ocean island archipelagos, for the first time in 1962. Only eight