Places The Life Vanished From – The Ghost Towns

In today's photogallery we will take a somewhat eerie tour and visit ghost towns around the world. The reasons why people abandon their homes are different in every case, but the places always carry messages from their last inhabitants.

The ghost town of Bodie – California

Old gas station in ghost town along the route 66

Founded in 1881 as a silver mining town, today Calico is a ghost town in San Bernardino County, California, United States

Goldfield Ghost town, USA

Abandoned houses and ruins of Kayakoy village, Fethiye, Turkey

The island Gunkanjima, Japan was populated as a coal mining town from 1887 and abandoned in 1974.

Ghost town Kolmanskop, Namibia

China zhejiang shengsi shengshan Island fishermen have relocated and become a ghost village

Sicilian Ghost Town of Poggioreale in Italy

Buildings of Pripyat, Chernobyl

Pentedattilo, a ghost town in Calabria, southern Italy

Street of the ghost town of Bolama, the former capital of Portuguese Guinea

Ghost village in andean plateau, Bolivia 

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