Officials in one of Oregon’s smallest cities say it needs to sell its historic City Hall virtually overnight or risk becoming the ghost town it’s long claimed to be. The Shaniko City Council held an ...

When people think of California, they don’t typically think of ghost towns. After all, it is known for big cities like Los ...

A mother allegedly abandoned her child at a bar at the Universal Studios theme park because the girl wanted to go to a hotel room instead of a dance club.

Centralia, Pennsylvania looks like an ordinary abandoned town — except the ground beneath it has been burning since 1962. What began as a small trash fire accidentally ignited an underground coal seam ...

Hundreds of properties will be up for sale next month during Riverside County’s parcel sale of tax-defaulted property, giving ...

Potential buyers are exploring Ynys Gifftan, a 17.74-acre private island lying in an estuary near Portmeirion.

The US military has cancelled a major paratrooper unit’s training exercise, prompting speculation that the soldiers could be sent to the Middle East.

A small, uninhabited town in Texas has been sold on the internet auction site, eBay, to a buyer in Italy for a little over $3m (£1.45m). The town, called Albert, is about 100km (62 miles) outside San ...

Explore fascinating abandoned and historic places in Illinois, where prisons, ghost towns, and ancient sites reveal stories that refuse to fade away.

Kasasa island, in the Seto Inland Sea, has only seven residents but its fate is strongly intertwined with relations between Tokyo and Beijing ...

The daughter of former U.S. intelligence director John Negroponte has been sentenced to 35 years in prison for the fatal ...