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The following is a list of ghost towns in Idaho.A ghost town is an abandoned village, town or city, usually one which contains substantial visible remains.A town often becomes a ghost town because the economic activity that supported it has failed, or due to natural or human-caused disasters such as floods, government actions or uncontrolled lawlessness.
Walhalla, Victoria, was never fully abandoned and has now become a popular tourist town. Western Tyers, a timber community in Victoria, was abandoned after the timber mill closed in 1969. Whroo, a former mining town in Victoria. Wittenoom in Western Australia was the country's only source of blue asbestos (crocidolite) in the 1950s and 60s. The ...
Abandoned buildings and structures in the United States (4 C, 6 P) Urban exploration (3 C, 27 P) Pages in category "Abandoned buildings and structures"
Here are six abandoned historic homes for sale that you can buy right now. Located in the quaint town of Milton, North Carolina, the Gordon-Brandon House was possibly built circa 1850 by a local ...
Abandoned buildings are typically eyesores. But what if someone takes these structures (many of them decades old) and turns them into something beautiful?
One of New Orleans' tallest buildings has become a danger in the decades since it was erected in the 1960s. While the $15.5 million building had a few residential units, it was mainly designed for ...
Gold was discovered at Hayward by Charles Phillips, Phillip Brown and Judge Willis, in the fall of 1876, but the area was abandoned when Indians shot up the camp. In November of the same year, Charles Hayward and James E. Carpenter with six others came in from Custer and laid out a town, which they named after Hayward.
Building began in 1987 and came to a halt in 1992 with the fall of the Soviet Union and a downturn in North Korea's economy. Standing at just over 1,000 feet tall, the hotel is the most visible ...